17th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing Joint Conference SINTES 17, SACCS 13, SIMSIS 17 11 - 13 October 2013, Sinaia, Romania The Joint Conference is for the fourth time organized in this format. The main goal of this conference is to provide a multidisciplinary forum between researchers from industry and academia to discuss state-of-the-art topics in system theory, control and computing, and to present recent research results and prospects for development in this evolving area. The ICSTCC conference emerged from the fusion of the three conferences that were separately organized by University of Craiova, Faculty of Automation, Computers and Electronics (SINTES - International Conference on System Theory and Control), "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering (SACCS - International Symposium on Automatic Control and Computer Science), "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Faculty of Control Systems, Computers, Electrical and Electronics Engineering (SIMSIS - International Symposium on Modelling, Simulation and Identification Systems).