The 2008 IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control (MSC), to be held at the Hilton Palacio del Rio in San Antonio, Texas, September 3-5, 2008, gathers up three of the major international conferences promoted by the IEEE Control Systems Society:

• the IEEE International Conference on Control Applications (CCA) − initiated in 1992 − with the goal of bringing together experts from academy and industry from different countries to present new research results in control applications, promoting and encouraging industrial participation in the activities of the IEEE Control Systems Society;

• the IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Aided Control System Design (CACSD) − initiated in 1992 − to be a place for discussion and promotion of the new developments of algorithms, software tools and interfaces to be used as enabling technologies in control engineering; 

• the IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC) − initiated in 1985. It provides a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners from different areas to discuss innovative control algorithms, also developed by emulating certain characteristics of intelligent biological systems, and recent advancements in computing technology, that may open avenues for significant technological advances.

The conference welcomes paper, session, tutorial and workshop submissions presenting new research results and perspectives on future developments, covering a broad range of topics relevant to control applications, methods and development tools.

The conference proceedings will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by INSPEC and Ei-Compendex.