6 1/2 X 9 7/16 in ces used in the following fields: automation, technology of management a nd regulation, computing machine and data processing, computer control, automation of industry, laser technology, theory of information and theo ry of signals, theory of algorithms and programming, philosophical bases of cybernetics, cybernetics and mathematical methods. Automation pertai ns to the theory, art, or technique of making a machine, a process or a device more fully automatic. Computers and information processing equipm ent play a large role in the automation of a process because of the inhe rent ability of a computer to develop decision that will, in effect, con trol or govern the process from the information received by the computer concerning the status of the process. Thus automation pertains to both the theory, and techniques of using automatic systems in industrial appl ications and the proces