Plenary sessions - adaptive predictive control, D.W. Clarke; invited session - weak-duality for adaptive control - adaptive control with improved asymptotic performance in the presence of deterministic disturbances, V.F. Sokolov; case study session - multistage flash seawater desalination plant control - simulation aided design and development of an adaptive scheme with optimally tuned PID controller for a large multistage seawater desalination plant - part 1 - process description, linearized dynamic model and its features, A. Woldai et al; technical sessions - advanced tracking and forgetting techniques - dynamical properties of the recursive maximum likelyhood algorithm for frequency estimation, F. Lorito; adaptive filtering and state estimation - adaptive receding horizon state estimation for non linear processes, L. Boillereaux and J.M. Flaus; neural networks - neural networks can be trained faster, H. Charaf and I. Vajk; robust estimation - recursive incremental least squares estimation algorithm, P.R. Barros; robustness of adaptive controllers - robustness of LQ self-tuning controller for non-minimum phase systems, Q. Song; intelligent tuning - self-tuning controller on the PLC, Z. Sehic et al; design of controllers for adaptive systems - a CACE tool for analysis and design of adaptive control systems, P.M. Norgaard et al.