Authors are advised to prepare the manuscripts according to the following instructions:

Submission deadline

December 31, 2021

Submission guidelines

Acceptable file format is PDF. Please refer to https://ifac.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl for details regarding format and latex/word templates. Do not submit files in Word or similar formats. Please note that in PDF files, all used fonts must be embedded to guarantee a correct appearance of the content. Also, do NOT use any non-Latin based character packages, like e.g. Japanese or Chinese packages. Do not include page numbers or headers. When preparing the final manuscript please take the comments from reviewers into account. The maximum size of poster presented at a poster session is A0 (height 1189 mm and width 841 mm).

Papers should be submitted through the PaperPlaza Conference Manuscript Management System.

Copyright conditions:

"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/journal-authors/policies-and-ethics),  and the authors will abide by the IFAC publication ethics guidelines  (https://www.ifac-control.org/events/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://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)."

https://www.ifac-control.org/publications/copyright-conditions

Note:

• Length of each contribution is limited at 6 pages.
• For each accepted paper, pre-payment of the registration fee by one of the authors is required.