The IFAC TC SWIIS the last 3 years

The IFAC TC on “Supplemental Ways for Improving International Stability – SWIIS„ is one of the longest situated in IFAC. According to first ideas during the IFAC World Congress in Kyoto 1981 this IFAC – at that time – Working Group organised in 1983 the first Workshop in this highly interdisziplinary field in Austria. Meanwhile a Technical Committee in IFAC, SWIIS was always a bridge between (control) engineers and various other disziplines to open IFAC to other related fields. In this contribution the last 3 years history of this TC will be described to outline recent developments and give some ideas for the future.