Table of Contents

1: Invited Papers.- 1. Experiences with process fault detection methods via parameter estimation.- 2. Fault diagnosis in dynamic systems via state estimation: A survey.- 3. A distributed hypothesis-testing team decision problem with communications cost.- 2: Fault Diagnosis and Fail-Safe/Robust Control of Dynamic Systems.- 1. Composite observers for failure detection in multivariable multi-time scale systems.- 2. Sensor fault detection via robust observers.- 3. Diagnosability and failure detection in linear discrete dynamical systems.- 4. Fault diagnosis in dynamic systems using a robust output zeroing design method.- 5. Validation of measurements in control system by means of analytical redundancy.- 6. Fault detection and location in model-reference-adaptively controlled robotic systems.- 7. A three level strategy for fault detection and diagnosis in industrial processes.- 8. Design of fail-safe tunable digital set-point tracking controllers for multivariable plants.- 9. The design and assessment of a sliding mode controller for the lateral motion model of an aircraft.- 10. High integrity software for multivariable PID controllers.- 11. Adaptive and coloured structured PETRI-nets for description, analysis and synthesis of hierarchical control and reliability of flexible cells in manufacturing systems.- 3: System Reliability Analysis and Applications.- 1. New results on the analysis and optimization of a k-out-of-n:F system with repair.- 2. Weibull Parameter estimation on a personal computer.- 3. Reliability and fault diagnosis methods of power system components.- 4. Application of Dylam methodology to the reliability analysis of a batch chemical plant.- 5. Steady state reliability of hypercube multicomputers tolerating single or double faults.- 6. Network optimization subject to reliability constraints.- 7. ARQ protocols for reliability enhancement in computer networks.- 3. Preventive maintenance policies for refineries.- 9. Controlled processes with explicit or implicit breakdowns and repeat actions.