For Authors

Participants can submit two kinds of contributions to the joint IFAC SSSC 2025, TDS 2025, and COSY 2025, either a discussion paper or a full paper. Submissions should be made to one of the three joint events.

Information for discussion paper submission
  • Discussion papers should be 2 pages long and contain sufficient information for their thorough evaluation.
  • Discussion paper should be submitted via the online system at Papercept, please visit the following link: https://ifac.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl
  • IFAC templates for both LaTeX and Word are available at the https://www.ifac-control.org/events/author-guide
  • Discussion papers will NOT be published on IFAC Papers-on-line. A link to download all accepted papers will be made available to the participants.
  • The IFAC author guide is available at: https://www.ifac-control.org/events/author-guide/Author%20Guide2014.pdf/view
  • PDF Compliance requirements specified by IFAC will be followed.
  • The deadline for the discussion paper submission is January 15th, 2025.
  • Presenters of accepted discussion papers must register for the Conference attendance.
  • Each presenting author is responsible for his/her registration fee(s) as well as travel and accommodation costs.
  • Final Submission Deadline April 30th, 2025.
Information for full paper submission 
  • Initial submission should be up to 8 pages.
  • All final papers are expected to be up to 6 pages long in A4 size and PDF format and limited to 2 MB in size.
  • Full paper should be submitted via the online system at Papercept, please visit the following link: https://ifac.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl
  • IFAC templates for both LaTeX and Word are available at the https://www.ifac-control.org/events/author-guide
  • Accepted full papers will be published in IFAC-PapersOnline https://www.journals.elsevier.com/ifac-papersonline/. There will be three separate proceedings published in IFAC-PapersOnline. A link to download all accepted papers will be made available to the participants.
  • The IFAC author guide is available at: https://www.ifac-control.org/events/author-guide/Author%20Guide2014.pdf/view
  • PDF Compliance requirements specified by IFAC will be followed.
  • The deadline for the paper submission is January 15th, 2025.
  • Presenters of accepted papers must register for the Conference attendance.
  • Each presenting author is responsible for his/her registration fee(s) as well as travel and accommodation costs.
  • Final Submission Deadline is April 30th, 2025.

Call for Contributed Papers: Papers are invited in the form of regular manuscripts or discussion papers. Papers must conform to the submission policy; all manuscripts shall be in 2-column format and meet strict page limits.

Call for Invited Sessions: Invited sessions consist of 5-6 papers, which should present a unifying theme from a diversity of viewpoints. Proposals must describe the motivation and relevance of the session. 

Call for Tutorial/Panel Sessions: Tutorial sessions and panel discussions addressing state-of-the-art control theory and advanced industrial applications are solicited.

Submission Policy 

• All submitted papers must be submitted through the conference submission website (ifac.papercept.net) formatted in the standard 2-column Proceedings format. Submissions should be made to one of the three joint events.

• Contributions can be submitted as either a discussion paper (2 pages) or a full paper (maximum 8 pages initial submission, 6 pages final submission). Accepted papers will be published in IFAC Papers on-line.  Abstract submissions will NOT be published in IFAC Papers online but will be included in the conference preprints link.

• Papers are limited to 6 pages, in A4 size and PDF format. Discussion papers are limited to 2 pages, in A4 size and PDF format. 

• A(n) (early) regular registration by an Author will allow the Author to upload up to 2 accepted papers the Author has (co)authored. A student/retiree registration will allow 1 accepted paper upload.

All publication material submitted for presentation at an IFAC-sponsored meeting (Congress, Symposium, Conference, Workshop) must be original and hence cannot be already published, nor can it be under review elsewhere. The authors take responsibility for the material that has been submitted. IFAC-sponsored conferences will abide by the highest standard of ethical behavior in the review process as explained on the Elsevier webpage https://www.elsevier.com/authors/policies-and-guidelines, and the authors will abide by the IFAC publication ethics guidelines https://www.ifac-control.org/conferences/organizers-guide/PublicationEthicsGuidelines.pdf/view. 

Accepted papers that have been presented at an IFAC meeting will be published in the proceedings of the event using the open-access IFAC-PapersOnLine series hosted on ScienceDirect https://www.sciencedirect.com/. To this end, the author(s) must grant exclusive publishing rights to IFAC under a Creative Commons license when they submit the final version of the paper. The copyright belongs to the authors, who have the right to share the paper in the same terms allowed by the end user license and retain all patent, trademark, and other intellectual property rights (including research data).
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