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1. Survey Papers.- Review and Future of Adaptive Control Systems.- Expert Systems and Their Applications: A Survey.- Fibre Optic Communication Systems in Industrial Automation.- Route Optimization Algorithms for Expert Systems.- 2. Dynamic Systems.- Enclosure Methods and Their Applications in Control Theory.- Improved Computation of Balancing Transformations for Model Reduction of Minimal Systems.- Adaptive Control of Linear Plants With Unknown High-Frequency Gain.- Design of a Full-Order Observer and its Minimal-Order Version for a One-Link Flexible Robot Arm.- 3. Model Building and System Simulation.- Modelling and Simulation of Non-Isothermal Processes for the Reduction, Precipitation and Characterization of Metal Phases in Zeolites.- Dynamics of Heterogeneously Catalyzed Oxydation Rections on Palladium Supported Catalysts.- Modelling and Simulation of the Methanation from Carbon Monoxide-Rich Synthesis Gas.- On Parameter Estimation of Ecosystem Models.- 4. Process Analysis and Control.- A Petri-Net-Based Tool for Computer-Aided Model Building, Simulation, and Analysis of Engineering Systems.- Control of Distributed Parameter Systems Using Pointwise Location of Sensors and Actuators.- On Modelling and Control of a Reactor for Pyrolysis.- Computer Coupled Laboratory Reactor for the Study of Temperature Profile Dynamics.- 5. Expert Systems.- Some Aspects of an Architecture for Real-Time Expert Systems in Industrial Plant Automation and Supervision.- Rule-Based Modelling of Dynamical Systems.- Multi-Sensory Signal Fusion.- 6. Intelligent Robots.- Goal Oriented Behaviour of Robots for Space Applications.- Basic Principles of Intelligent Task Planning for Autonomous Robot Systems.- Collision Free Motion Planning for Robot-Manipulators.