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Submission

Below you can find instructions on how to submit your work. Authors are invited to submit their contributions through the IFAC Submission Management System: ifac.papercept.net.

Submit a contribution

Deadlines and other dates

15 May 2025 – Submission Management System opens
6 June 2025 – Regular Paper initial submission deadline
30 June 2025 – Registration opens
18 July 2025 – Acceptance notification
12 September 2025 – Final submission deadline
15 September 2025 – Early registration rate expires
6-7 November 2025 – Conference dates

Contribution categories

Regular Contributions

Regular contributions will be selected on the originality, technical soundness, quality of written exposition and relevance to CONFERENCE NAME 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.

Discussion Contributions

Discussion Contributions are for bringing forward specific topics within the scope of CONFERENCE NAME, especially for participants from the industry, as well as government and education sectors. It may also be an opportunity to discuss ongoing research. Submissions are in the form of an extended abstract of at most 4 pages. Discussion Contributions have a late submission deadline and will go under a fast review process based on the relevance to the audience at CONFERENCE NAME. Presentations of Discussion Contribution may be either in oral sessions or in interactive sessions. Extended abstracts will NOT be included in the IFAC-PapersOnLine proceedings, but only in the preprints.

Regular Contribution and Open Invited Track Regular Contribution

Initial manuscript	4 pages minimum, 8 pages maximum
Final paper	6 pages maximum
IFAC standard peer review	By the International Program Committee
If accepted	Included in the IFAC-PapersOnLine proceedings + oral presentation

Discussion Contribution and Open Invited Track Discussion Contribution

Extended abstract	4 pages maximum
Ad hoc evaluation	By the International Program Committee Chairs
If accepted	Included in the preprints + oral presentation

Instructions for Authors

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

The conference manuscript submission system imposes several requirements on the PDF files and the style of the manuscript that may cause the submitting author some inconvenience. Most of these requirements are based on IFAC’s efforts to standardize conference manuscripts properties and layout. Additional requirements (e.g. page limits) are set by individual conference. Please see the section on Compliance for further information about why these requirements are necessary.

Briefly,

All fonts must be embedded in the file.
Fonts that require non-English language support are not allowed.
Two-column format in the IFAC style is required for final submissions and recommended for initial submissions.
For IFAC conferences, the paper size for final submission must be A4.
The document margins must satisfy the printer’s requirements.
The number of pages and the file size must satisfy the conference requirements.
The document should not have any password protection.

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 CMWRS. This is awarded for the best CMWRS paper of which the first and presenting author is the main contributor of the research results in the paper, and where the candidate has the Student status at the time of paper submission.

Nominations are solicited after the final submission of papers is closed. Nominations are done using the IFAC Submission Management System. The IFAC Young Author Award Selection Committee shall determine a short list of finalists, based on the gathered reviews and on their own reading of the paper. Based on both the written paper and the oral presentation given by the nominee, a winner is selected. The prize for the best CMWRS paper will be given at the closure ceremony.

IFAC CMWRS Young Author Award goes to :

Name of the awardee : to be determined
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Authors of the paper : to be determined

Finalists of the CMWRS Young Author Award

Name of finalist : to be determined
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Session in which the paper is presented :

Name of finalist : to be determined
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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).