Participate - 8th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

Important dates

Invited session proposals: 14 October 2026
Paper submission (regular papers): 30 October 2026
Late breaking results (extended abstracts): 5 February 2027
Notification of acceptance: 1 March 2027
Final paper submission: 2 April 2027
Conference days: 9 – 11 June 2027

Instructions for Authors

Authors are invited to submit their contributions through the IFAC Submission Management System: ifac.papercept.net. For LaTeX of MS-Word Support, see also: Important information for Manuscript Preparation.

Regular Contributions – contributed and invited papers

All papers must be written in English and prepared in accordance with the IFAC paper style (See IFAC Author Guide). For the purpose of review only, manuscripts may be up to 8 pages long in two-column format. The length of the final manuscript must be between 4 (minimum) and 6 (maximum) pages in two-column format. All papers will be peer reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in the IFAC-PapersOnLine Proceedings Series.

Late Breaking Results – extended abstracts

All abstracts must be written in English and prepared in accordance with the IFAC paper style (See IFAC Author Guide). Manuscripts may be up to 4 pages long in two-column format. All abstracts will be reviewd by the IPC. Accepted abstracts will be presented at the conference in a regular session. Abstracts will not be published in the IFAC-PapersOnLine Proceedings Series.

Invited Sessions

Invited sessions consist of six contributions presenting a unifying research theme from the scope of ACNDC 2027. Each invited session proposal must contain a session title, names of organizers, a summary describing the motivation and relevance of the proposed session, and a list of the six contributions including paper/abstract titles, author names, affiliations and brief descriptions. Each paper submitted to invited sessions will be peer reviewed (abstracts will be reviewed by the IPC). Upon submission the organizer will obtain an invited session code that should be distributed to contributors.

IFAC 2027 Young Author Awards

In order to stimulate the involvement of young scientists and engineers in IFAC, as well as to recognize top-level contributions of the younger generation in the field, an IFAC Young Author Award is presented at IFAC Conference on Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos. This is awarded for the best ACNDC paper, the first and presenting author of which is a student status at the time of paper submission.

Nominations are made by the supervisor, reviewers or senior co-authors of the young author and no self-nominations are allowed. The nomination deadline for the Award is May 1st 2027. Nominations should be proposed by sending an email to: sergio.galeani@uniroma2.it. The email should clearly state the student’s name, the title and number of the ACNDC 2027 paper, the role of the proposer with respect to the nominee, and the reason for the nomination.

The IFAC Young Author Award Selection Committee, appointed by the Programme Chair, shall determine a short list of finalists, based on the gathered reviews and on their own reading of the paper. Finalists will be notified prior to the event. Based on both the written paper and the oral presentation given by the nominee, a winner is selected and announced at the conference. The winner, along with all finalists, will be presented with an IFAC certificate.

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).