Plenary session: steady state hierarchical control of large-scale industrial processes - a survey, P.D. Roberts et al; technical session: environmental and ecological systems and adaptive control - the generalized monotonicity of allocation principles, Luo Xiao et al; decision making in LSS - integrated optimal routing and congestion control in packet-switched networks, J.C.M. Banos et al; steady state hierarchical control - a new method to establish steady-state model of large-scale system, Q.X. Chen and B.W. Wan; power systems - an artificial neural network model for comparative study of education system of China, Zhongtuo Wang; discrete event dynamic systems - reachability of a class of coupled discrete event systems, L.E. Sole and F. Szigeti; manufacturing systems - hierarchical decentralized scheduling using min-max-algebra, S. Engell; LSS robust control - Eigenvalue ranking for large scale systems, A. Feliachi and Xiaofan Zhang; decision support systems - an intellectual forecasting support system, Liu Bao et al; fuzzy and expert systems - facing up to complex problem by introducing fuzzy logic in control, A. Titli; decentralized control - on the design of decentralized observers, M. Hou and P.C. Muller; applications - multi-parameter analysis and design of a multi-axis servo-hydraulic test facility using exponent diagram techniques, H. Hahn et al; non-linear systems - the interconnected stabilization of nonlinear constant control system with multidelay, Yang Huizhong; uncertainty reasoning in LSS - artificial fuzzy neural networks and their application to intelligent robot control systems, A. Kandel et al. (Part Contents).