This Proceedings contains the papers presented at the eighth in IFAC's conference series on Supplementary Ways for Improving International Stability. This conference, entitled "Social Stability: The Challenge of Technology Development," was held in Vienna, Austria, on 27-29 September 2001.

The papers included in this Proceedings volume cover a very broad field of interest, and include topics such as social aspects of technology transfer, managing the introduction of technological change, ethical aspects, technology and environmental stability and anticipating secondary and...

In October of last year experts from different research disciplines, like control engineering, systems engineering, sociology, art, philosophy, and politics met in Krems (Austria) to discuss the interplay between recent developments in automation and the culture and social framework, with special emphasis on the approaches in the East and the West. Main topics of these intensive discussions were technology design, automation software and culture, social conditions, education, computer and art, design of man-machine-systems, CIM and culture as well as appropriate methods for interdisciplinary...

In der Kombination von Lehrbuch und Programmdiskette wird hier ein neuer Weg bestritten: Der an der Mechanik Interessierte hat die Moglichkeit, die wesentlichen Grundlagen dieses Fachgebietes mit seinem C64 an Hand ausgewahlter Beispiele einzuuben und zu vertiefen. Diejenigen, die vor allem am Rechner selbst und seinen Anwendungsmoglichkeiten interessiert sind, konnen so ihr Gerat sinnvoll und effizient einsetzen. Die Gestaltung der Programme bietet daruber hinaus Moglichkeiten zur spielerischen Auflockerung der Lerneinheiten. Es werden die wesentlichen Grundlagen aus den Teilgebieten Statik,...