Paper Management

Paper submissions will be handled electronically via the PaperPlaza/PaperCept system at http://ifac.papercept.net/. The site is NOW OPEN FOR FINAL PAPER UPLOAD (July 10). 

Note that each paper must be associated with at least one regular registration (early rate), which allows no more than two paper uploads. A student registration allows one paper upload as long as at least one other co-author of the paper has registered at the regular rate. 

PLEASE NOTE: You must register before you can do your final paper upload.

Formatting Requirements

There are new format requirements and templates for IFAC papers. You can find them at http://www.ifac-control.org/events/information-for-ifac-authors.

PLEASE NOTE: Only PDF  files compliant with the IFAC Publications Requirements are acceptable for publication. Details can be found here.

IFAC Copyright

The material submitted for presentation at an IFAC meeting (Congress, Symposium, Conference, Workshop) must be original, not published or being considered elsewhere. All papers accepted for presentation will appear in the Preprints of the meeting and will be distributed to the participants. Proceedings of the IFAC Congress, Symposia, Conferences and Workshops will be hosted on-line on the IFAC-PapersOnLine.net website. The presented papers will be further screened for possible publication in the IFAC Journals (Automatica, Control Engineering Practice, Annual Reviews in Control, Journal of Process Control , Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, and Mechatronics), or in IFAC affiliated journals. All papers presented will be recorded as an IFAC Publication. Copyright of material presented at an IFAC meeting is held by IFAC. Authors will be required to transfer copyrights electronically and/or in hard copy. The IFAC Journals and, after these, IFAC affiliated journals have priority access to all contributions presented. However, if the author is not contacted by an editor of these journals, within three months after the meeting, he/she is free to submit an expanded version of the presented material for journal publication elsewhere. In this case, the paper must carry a reference to the IFAC meeting where it was originally presented and, if the paper has appeared on the website www.IFAC-PapersOnLine.net, also a reference to this publication.

  PLEASE NOTE: You must transfer copyright at the time of final paper upload.