From: eechris@cybaswan.UUCP (Chris Jobling)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.control
Subject: Announcing the News Letter Open CACSD to USENET-land
Date: 14 Sep 92 13:15:56 GMT
Reply-To: eechris@pyr.swan.ac.uk (Chris Jobling)


             Announcing the Electronic Newsletter --- OPEN CACSD

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                    Announcing the Electronic Newsletter for the
        IFAC/IEEE-CSS Working Group on Guidelines for Open CACSD Software


OPEN CACSD, is the electronic newsletter of the IFAC/IEEE-CSS Working
Group on Guidelines for Open Computer-Aided Control Systems Design
(CACSD) Software.

This newsletter is distributed approximately once a month by its moderator
(me) from the University of Wales in Swansea, scene of the famous
IFAC CADCS '92 conference at which Jan Maciejowski resurrected the working 
group. Items covered include any subject related to the "opening up" of
computer-based applications for the analysis, design, simulation and
implementation of control systems. Examples of suitable topics would be

	o data definitions for CACSD
	o user interfaces for CACSD
	o system modelling languages
	o environments for the integration of CACSD tools
	o how to get CACSD packages to talk to each other
	o advantages and disadvantages of Matlab, MATRIXx, ACSL etc.
	o examples of good or bad practice in commercial packages

Our aim is to stimulate the exchange of ideas about what an open CACSD
system is or ought to be and hopefully shame the developers into giving
us what we need, not what they want us to have!

You are invited to subscribe to the newsletter by sending a request to
eechris@pyr.swan.ac.uk. I'd also welcome contributions so that we can
make the newsletter interesting and informative.  Please send
contributions for the newsletter to:  eechris@pyr.swan.ac.uk.

So far there have been eight issues of the newsletter since its launch
in March of this year. Back issues are still available from the
moderator, include a note in your subscription request.

Archive copies of the newsletter and electronic versions of interesting
(long) articles are also kept at the Control Information Database (CID)
at Glasgow and the Systems and Control Archive at Dallas (SCAD).
Instructions for accessing these are given in each issue.


Cheers


Chris Jobling



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