PARTICIPATE

Submission

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

Deadlines and other dates

1 August 2024 – Submission Management System opens
15 November 2024 – Invited Session Proposal deadline
30 November 2024 – Regular Paper initial submission deadline
30 November 2024 – Invited Paper initial submission deadline
February 2025 – Registration opens
March 2025 – Acceptance notification
30 April 2025 – Regular Paper final submission deadline
30 April 2025 – Invited Paper final submission deadline
30 April 2025 – Early registration rate expires
23-25 July 2025 – Conference dates

Contribution categories

Regular Contributions

Regular contributions will be selected on the originality, technical soundness, quality of written exposition and relevance to NOLCOS 2025 topics. Initial submissions are at least 4 pages long and most 8 pages long, with a 6 pages limit for final manuscripts to be included in the IFAC-PapersOnLine proceedings. Papers exceeding the normal length may be submitted upon payment of overlength page charges for each page in excess of 6. A maximum of 2 extra pages above normal 6 are permitted. 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	6 pages maximum, 8 pages with extra page charge fee
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. Each invited session is limited to consist of six papers and the organizers must prepare and submit a proposal in advance. Papers exceeding the normal length may be submitted upon payment of overlength page charges for each page in excess of 6. A maximum of 2 extra pages above normal 2 are permitted. The topics should fall within the scope of the congress and address specific well-defined issues.

Invited Contribution

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

Instructions for Authors

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

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 NOLCOS 2025. This is awarded for the best NOLCOS 2025 paper of which the first and presenting author is the main contributor of the research results in the paper, and where the candidate is less than 30 years old at the time of the event (motivated exemptions on the age criterion to deal with gender and cultural differences so as to allow for a fair competition are allowed).

Nominations are solicited after the final submission of papers is closed. Nominations are made by colleagues of the young author (no self-nominations). 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.

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).