A. El Moudni - Böcker

The IFAC Conference on Control of Industrial Systems (CIS'97) was organized by the Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs. It was devoted to 'Control for the Future of the Youth' and linked the control science with the control engineering in the framework of industrial systems control.

The wide diversity of topics, high quality, theoretical impact and applications of contributed results acknowledged the following:

. Control, which is mainly automatic today, is the brain of every industrial system. Industrial systems automatic control necessitates a permanent interaction between systems and control science, and control engineering. Automatics is a self-contained and complete scientific and engineering discipline on automatic control, and as such, it has been interacting with almost all other scientific, engineering and social areas. Automatic control implies new job forms and qualifications, thus representing the area of the widely growing research and professional possibilities for pacific contributions to the well-being of humanity. Automatics is one of the most perspective disciplines open to young engineers and scientists.