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| The First President (2006-2007) |
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The Asian Control Association (ACA) is an organization for promoting activities on control science and technology in Asia. It consists of individuals from universities, research institutes and industries who are ready to work together for the prosperity of Asia through research, education and technological advance beyond the national and cultural borders.
Asia is so broad in terms of geographical territory and so diverse in terms of culture, tradition and religion that it is not easy to communicate with each other face to face, even for those who are working in the same area with the same motivation, even with the same purpose. |
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This is a pity because Asian people share many commonalities about which they can discuss and collaborate. The ACA was established to alleviate this difficulty, providing abundant opportunity for discussion and collaboration among Asian control people.
Our activities include operating the Asian Control Conference (ASCC), which is held every two years, and publishing the Asian Journal of Control (AJC), which is published quarterly. These activities already have well-established projects involving many Asian control people. The ASCC has already been held five times and the AJC has been in publication for 8 years.
In order to facilitate our activities, we have three Vice Presidents; one for conferences who is in charge of organizing the ASCC, one for publicity who is in charge of publishing the AJC and one for education who is in charge of organizing educational activities including publishing textbooks. All three Vice Presidents are eminent people in the Asian control community as you may find in the list of our executive committee.
Thanks to the Korean body, we have an office in Seoul with part time staff. The office is being run by a fund that has been prepared jointly by Korea and Japan. The Korean fund was donated personally by Professor Wook Hyun Kwon, the current President of IFAC, while the Japanese fund came from the profit made by the first ASCC initiated by Professor Shimemura. Thus, we are ready to involve ourselves in a new project beyond the scope of ASCC and AJC.
Now is the time to do something new within Asia, collecting Asian power. There are many social, human, and environmental issues for establishing a sustainable society in Asia, to which control science and engineering are very much relevant. As the distinguished international organization of control people in Asia, it is our hope that our association can contribute to solving these issues.
Through the activities of the Asian Control Professors Association (ACPA) for 9 years before the ACA was established, we have now a broad and friendly human network of Asian control people. A human network is very important to cultivate the ground of friendly collaborations. I strongly hope that younger people will join us to enlarge and strengthen the present human network within Asia to facilitate further collaborations, as well as human exchanges.
The ACA will certainly do everything possible to contribute to the promotion of the Asian control community. |
Hidenori Kimura
President of the Asian Control Association |
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