Asian Control Association (ACA)
Asian Control Association (ACA), which was established in March 2006 for setting the technical standards and advancing the field of automatic control in Asia and Oceania regions by more than 400 professors and experts. At present, three organizations are running to enrich the goals of the ACA as follows:
The Asian Control Conference (ASCC) is a biennial event and a major control event held in Asia. ASCC 2006 provides researchers, engineers, and professional worldwide with excellent opportunities to get together and exchange their findings and views.
The history of ASCC dates back to 1994 when the first ASCC was held in Tokyo. The subsequent conferences then were held in Seoul (1998), Shanghai (2000), Singapore (2002), Melbourne (2004), and Bali (2006). All of them had hundreds of participants coming from around the world. The seventh ASCC is scheduled to be held in Hong Kong in 2009 (due to that IFAC World Congress will be held in 2008, Seoul), The ACA wishes to a successful ASCC conference.
The AJC is the first international journal originating from the Asian Pacific region and being recognized by the major body of control researchers in this region. The AJC has been included in SCI Expanded since 2003. The AJC publishes quarterly high-quality papers on original theoretical and experimental research and development in the areas of control, involving all facets of control theory and its application.
The ACPA was initiated during the IFAC World Congress in San Francisco in July 1996. The ACPA is an unusual organization as a link of educators in Asia and Oceania created. The purpose of the ACPA is to enhance the progress of systems and control engineering and its education in Asian and Oceanian areas through various kinds of collaborations and cooperation among educators of systems and control engineering in the region. The ACPA tries to form a wide human network of educators of Asian and Oceania regions.
