PARTICIPATE

Submission

Authors are invited to submit their contributions through the IFAC Submission Management System: ifac.papercept.net.

Submit a contribution

Deadlines and other dates

  • 10 July 2025 – Submission Management System opens
  • 15 August 2025 – Regular Paper submission deadline
  • 15 September 2025 – Acceptance notification
  • 30 October 2025 – Final version submission deadline
  • 1 October 2025 – Early registration deadline
  • 1 November 2025 – Normal registration deadline
  • 18 November 2025 – Late registration deadline
  • 10-13 December 2025 – Conference dates

Regular Contributions

Regular contributions will be selected on the originality, technical soundness, quality of written exposition and relevance to CAO 2025 topics. Initial submissions are at least 4 pages long and most 8 pages long, with a strict 6 pages limit for final manuscripts to be included in the IFAC-PapersOnLine proceedings. Presentations are in oral sessions during the conference in a 20 minutes format, including questions.

Regular Contribution

Initial manuscript4 pages minimum, 8 pages maximum
Final paper6 pages maximum
IFAC standard peer reviewBy the International Program Committee
If acceptedIncluded in the IFAC-PapersOnLine proceedings
+ oral presentation

Instructions for Authors

All manuscripts should be prepared and submitted according to IFAC requirements.

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).

IFAC Copyright Conditions