Call for Contributions

On behalf of the National Organizing Committee and the IPC ROCOND 2025 we are delighted to welcome you to the Joint IFAC Meeting: 11th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design (ROCOND 2025), 6th IFAC Workshop on Linear Parameter varying Systems (LPVS 2025). The event will take place in the capital of the Port Wine, Portugal, from the 2nd to the 4th of July 2025.
Please submit in the most appropriate format:

  • Regular Papers are intended to be a complete description of finished work, and are selected on the originality, technical soundness, quality of written exposition and relevance to ROCOND 2025 or LPVS 2025 topics. Initial submissions should be a minimum of 4 pages and a maximum of 8 pages. However, final manuscripts must adhere to a strict 6-page limit to be included in the IFAC-PapersOnLine proceedings.   Their presentation is in the form of oral sessions.  Submit as ROCOND or LPVS Regular Paper.
  • Open Track Sessions present a unifying theme from a diversity of viewpoints. This might be either theoretical — Invited Sessions or applications-oriented — Technical Sessions. Proposals must describe the motivation and relevance of the session and should be a maximum of 4 pages.  
    The associated papers initial submissions follow the rules stated above for Regular Papers. These are submitted accompanied of the Open Session Track code. Their presentation may be either in the form of oral sessions or interactive sessions. Submit as ROCOND Open Track Session and as ROCOND or LPVS Open Track Paper.
  • Discussion Contributions aim to bring forward specific topics within the scope of ROCOND 2025 or LPVS 2025, 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. These contributions have a late submission deadline and will go under a fast review process based on the relevance to the audience at ROCOND 2025 or LPVS 2025, and their presentation may be either in the form of oral sessions or interactive sessions. Extended abstracts will NOT be included in the IFAC-PapersOnLine proceedings but only in the preprints. This type of submission encompasses:
    – Papers on success stories, or best practices
    – Problem-solving sessions
    – Industry technical papers
    – Research projects discussion
    Submit through email: rocond2025@ifac-mail.org or lpvs2025@ifac-mail.org.
  • Tutorial Sessions seek proposals on a state-of-the-art control theory and advanced industrial applications topic. These sessions may be structured in one of two different ways: (i) around a main presentation to bring the participants up to speed, followed by smaller presentations (ii) composed of only small presentations.
    Main presentation — a presentation of 45min and an optional paper of max of 18 pages divided in 3 parts for possible publication in IFAC PapersOnLine.
    Small presentation— a presentation of 15min and an optional paper of max of 6 pages for possible publication in IFAC PapersOnLine.
    These sessions are submitted in the form of an extended abstract of at most 4 pages, which must contain the objectives, problem description, technical solutions and applications. It is mandatory to indicate also the title, the organizers (name and affiliations) and the number of talks and respective speakers as well as the total session duration. Tutorial Sessions involving strong industry and academic collaboration are highly encouraged.
    Submit as ROCOND or LPVS Open Track Session and as ROCOND or LPVS Open Track Paper.
  • Panel Discussions deal with specialists different point of views on state-of-the-art control theory and advanced industry applications.  These are submitted in the form of an extended abstract of at most 4 pages. When accepted,  the extended abstract will NOT be included in the IFAC-PapersOnLine proceedings, but only in the preprints.
    Submit through email: rocond2025@ifac-mail.org or lpvs2025@ifac-mail.org.

The call for paper can be downloaded here.

Submission

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

Submit a contribution

Important dates

  • Submission opens: October 15, 2024
  • Invited Session Proposals submission due on January 31, 2025
  • Technical Session Proposals submission due on January 31, 2025
  • Regular paper submission due on January 31, 2025
  • Invited Session and Technical Session paper submission due on February 15, 2025
  • Tutorial Session Proposals submission due on March 1, 2025
  • Tutorial Session Paper submission due on March 15, 2025
  • Discussion Contributions submission due on March 15, 2025
  • Panel Discussion Proposals submission due on March 15, 2025
  • Final submission: To be defined.
  • Young Author Prize Nomination: To be defined
  • Early Registration Deadline: April 2, 2025
  • Normal Registration Deadline: June 2, 2025
  • Late Registration Deadline: July 4, 2025

Instructions for Authors

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

Young Author Awards

To encourage the participation of young scientists and engineers in IFAC, and recognise outstanding contributions from the next generation in the field, the IFAC Young Author Award will be presented at ROCOND’25. This award is given for the best paper at ROCOND’25 where the first and presenting author is the main contributor to the research and holds Student status at the time of paper submission.

Nominations are invited after the final paper submission deadline. Colleagues of the young author (no self-nominations) are responsible for submitting nominations through the IFAC Submission Management System. The IFAC Young Author Award Selection Committee will compile a shortlist of finalists based on the collected reviews and their own evaluation of the papers. The winner will be selected based on both the written paper and the oral presentation delivered by the nominee.

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).

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