The symposium was composed of many technical topics such as sensing and processing methods, data communications, modernization of I&C and control room, wireless technologies in nuclear applications, post Fukushima actions and development, system simulation technologies, robotics and automatic remote technologies, testing and maintenance, future I&C technologies for nuclear applications, cognitive systems engineering for process control. | Special issue on the International Symposium on Future Instrumentation and Control for Nuclear Power Plants (ISOFIC2017)