Paper submission
All papers must be written in English and comply with IFAC copyright conditions.
Authors are invited to submit their contributions through the IFAC Submission Management System: ifac.papercept.net.
Deadlines and other dates
- May 20, 2025 : invited sessions & WS/Tutorials deadline
- May 31, 2025 : papers submission deadline
- June 30, 2025 : early registration opens
- June 30, 2025 : notification of acceptance
- Aug. 7, 2025 : final submission due
- Aug. 15, 2025 : early registration deadline
- Aug. 16, 2025 : normal registration opens,
- Sep. 30, 2025 : Young Author Prize Nomination deadline
- Oct. 14, 2025 : normal registration deadline
Contribution categories
Regular Contributions
Regular contributions will be selected on the originality, technical soundness, quality of written exposition and relevance to the MMM 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 Manuscript | 4 pages minimum, 8 pages maximum |
| Final paper | 4 pages minimum, 6 pages maximum |
| IFAC standard peer review | By the International Program Committee |
| If accepted | included in the IFAC-PapersOnLine proceedings + oral presentation |
Invited Contributions
Invited contributions refer to papers to be part of invited sessions, where the contributors are invited by the organizers. The topics should fall within the scope of the congress and address specific well-defined issues. Each invited session is limited to consist of six papers and the organizers must prepare and submit a proposal in advance. 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.
Invited Contribution
| Initial Manuscript | 4 pages minimum, 8 pages maximum |
| Final paper | 4 pages minimum, 6 pages maximum |
| IFAC standard peer review | By the International Program Committee |
| If accepted | included in the IFAC-PapersOnLine proceedings + oral presentation |
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 MMM 2025.
This is awarded for the best MMM 2025 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 may only arise from the supervisor or a colleague of the young author by September 30, 2025. Please note that self-nominations are NOT allowed.
Nominations should be submitted through the conference MMM 2025 submission site at:
http://ifac.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl
The Young Author Award Nomination Form can be found here:
https://www.ifac-control.org/conferences/ifac-young-author-event-award-1/young-author-event-award-nomination-form/view
A Selection Committee, appointed by the IPC Chair, will choose a number of finalists based on the quality of the papers. Finalists will be notified prior to the event. The Selection Committee will select the winner out of the finalists, after having attended the presentation of all the finalist papers at the event.
The award will be presented at the end of the MMM 2025 on Friday, October 24th 2025.
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).
