The aim is to attract papers on control applications and particularly, but not exclusively, those associated with industrial applications.Papers must contain a novel control theory or design content and can include:• Good theoretical application studies that are backed up by simulation results.• Application papers concerned with the details of modelling physical processes, system simulation and the use of system identification methods.• New control system design philosophies and formal design procedures.• Control topologies and applications at both regulating and supervisory levels, and the related problems of estimation, fault monitoring and benchmarking.• Papers on challenging control design problems where achieving desired performance is difficult and novel solutions have been obtained.