Selected papers: A prospect of adaptive control, J H Westcott. Parameter convergence and stability in continuous-time indirect adaptive control, N Nordstrom. Chaotic dynamics in adaptive systems, B E Ydstie & M P Golden. Adaptive and robust cascade schemes for thyristor driven DC-motor speed control, R M Stephan & H Unbehauen. Expert system approach of industrial process adaptive control, Z Zhu & G Dai. Adaptive control via finite modelling and robust control, R L Kosut & B D O Anderson. Multivariable adaptive control with the generalized analytical predictor, P D Pavlechko & T F Edgar. A robust self-tuned controller based on state-space approach, A K Mahalanabis & P Desai. Design of robust adaptive digital set-point tracking P1 controllers for nonminimum-phase multivariable plants, B Porter & A Khaki-Sedigh. Robustness analysis of adaptive control systems - the stability margin approach, M Jie & Z D Yuan. Absolute stabilty and robust discrete adaptive control, I Bar-Kana. Implementation of parameter estimation algorithms, S Bergman & S Ljung. A long range predictive adaptive control: performance enhancements and experimental evaluation, M M'Saad et al. Frequency domain adaptive control, R H Middleton. MultiRate discrete time model reference adaptive control, T Suzuki et al. On the robustness of stochastic adaptive control, R R Bitmead & P E Caines. Author index.