Systems approaches to sustainable advancement of developing countries: Recent contributions

Abstract

Advanced information technologies resulting from automation of control and decision expertise and their respective scientific disciplines have essential impacts on the development of national economies within the more and more globalized economy hence a decisive role in ameliorating current socioeconomic problems in developing countries. Recent developments have put new emphasis on the IFAC activities dedicated to help improving the technological background of developing countries so as to assists their sustainable but accelerated developments. It is important to keep the focus should be on innovative systems approaches to combined knowledge and technology transfer to developing countries that may remedy their current state of the matters.