The 16th IFAC World Congress 2005 in Prague was co-organized by the Department of Control Theory. The congress is held every three years and is considered the flagship event of the IFAC Federation. The 16th IFAC World Congress took place in the Prague Congress Center between July 3rd and July 8th, 2005. With an attendance of almost two and half thousand participants from 63 countries, this was definitely the largest and most successful event in automatic control ever.

10th International PhD Workshop, Young Generation Viewpoint took place. Presentations from this workshop are on http://as.utia.cas.cz/phd2009.

MCS 2007 is the seventh workshop in a well-established series of meetings providing an international forum for the discussion of issues in multiple classifier system design.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers from diverse communities dealing with this topic, including neural network, pattern recognition, machine learning and statistics.

MCS 2007 will focus in particular on the application of multiple classifier systems in biometrics.

The program of the Workshop will include presenting selected results of theoretical and applied research in the fields connected with the development of uncertain knowledge models and their applications to computer -aided decision-making. The Workshop is a part of the activities of the Research Center Data – Algorithms – Decision- Making, which was established last year by our Institute in collaboration with eight other academic and industry research groups under the support of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.