May 10-14, 1998 William Egan Convention Center Anchorage, Alaska, USA. The 3rd World Automation Congress, WAC'98, included the 7th International Symposium on Robotics and Applications (ISORA'98), the 6th International Symposium on Manufacturing and Applications (ISOMA'98), the 2nd International Symposium on Intelligent Automation and Control (ISIAC'98), the 2nd International Symposium on Soft Computing for Industry (ISSCI'98), and the 1st International Forum on Multimedia and Image Processing (IFMIP'98) and was held from Sunday, May 10, 1998 through Thursday. May 14, 1998, in Anchorage, Alaska, the USA's "Last Frontier". The Congress consisted of 15 technical tutorials, 3 cultural tutorials (one on seafood cooking, another on deep sea fishing, and the third one on river fishing), followed by some 150 technical sessions covering practically all aspects of control systems, robotics, manufacturing, automation, soft computing, multimedia, financial engineering and image processing.
WAC'98 was dedicated to Professor Brian D.0. Anderson - a Fellow of the Royal Society
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