Call for Contributions, Invited Sessions, Discussion Contributions

On behalf of the National Organizing Committee (NOC) and of the International Program Committees of the Joint IFAC Meeting: 11th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design (ROCOND 2025), 6th IFAC Workshop on Linear Parameter varying Systems (LPVS 2025), we are delighted to welcome you in Porto, the capital of the Port Wine, Portugal, from the 2nd to the 4th of July 2025.
The event presents the current state of the art and most recent advances in the theory and industry applications of a large intersection of topics in the field of robust control and linear parameter varying systems. It is also a forum for researchers from a wide variety of different scientific areas and application fields.
Please submit:

  • Regular contributions: Initial submissions s 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.
  • Invited Sessions: Invited sessions consist of 5-6 papers, which should present a unifying theme from a diversity of viewpoints. Proposals must describe the motivation and relevance of the session.
  • Discussion Contributions: Submissions are in the form of an extended abstract of at most 4 pages. Extended abstracts will NOT be included in the IFAC-PapersOnLine proceedings, but only in the preprints.
    Tutorial Sessions and Panel Discussions: Are submitted in the form of an extended abstract of at most 4 pages. If accepted the extended abstract will NOT be included in the IFAC-PapersOnLine proceedings, but only in the preprints.

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

Deadlines and other dates

  • Submission opens: October 15, 2024
  • Invited Session Proposals deadline: December 15, 2024
  • Paper submission: January 15, 2025
  • Discussion Contributions submission: March 1, 2025
  • Tutorial Sessions and Panel Discussions submission: March 1, 2025
  • Early Registration Deadline: April 2, 2025
  • Normal Registration Deadline: June 2, 2025
  • Late Registration Deadline: July 4, 2025

Contribution categories

Regular Contributions

Regular contributions will be selected on the originality, technical soundness, quality of written exposition and relevance to ROCOND’25 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 ROCOND’25, 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 ROCOND’25. 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.

Invited Sessions

Invited sessions consist of 5-6 papers, which should present a unifying theme from a diversity of viewpoints. Proposals must describe the motivation and relevance of the session. Invited Session papers  are reviewed following the same rules as Regular Contributions, and the Papers are published in the IFAC-PapersOnLine proceedings with a 6 pages limit

Tutorial Sessions and Panel Discussions

Tutorial sessions and panel discussions address state-of-the-art control theory and advanced industrial applications.  They are submitted in the form of an extended abstract of at most 4 pages. If accepted the extended abstract will NOT be included in the IFAC-PapersOnLine proceedings, but only in the preprints. 

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 ROCOND’25. This is awarded for the best ROCOND’25 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 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).

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