IMAACA 2018 will bring experts together for the purpose of presenting and discussing all type of application relevant control, automation, supervision, decision and management problems emphasizing the role of model analysis as integral part of the complete design of the automated system. Particularly, it will focus on new concepts, methods, techniques, and tools conceived in order to support an integrative interplay of modeling, identification, simulation, system analysis and control theory in all the stages of system design.