SUBMISSION

Submit a Contribution

SAFEPROCESS 2027 will accept regular papers, possibly via invited session proposals, and contributions via panel discussion proposals. In addition to these, SAFEPROCESS 2027 will include a “Dissemination papers” track, i.e., extended abstracts of recent publications in IFAC Journals related to SAFEPROCESS topics. Tutorial proposals are also encouraged. Papers and proposals must be submitted electronically using the IFAC Papercept Conference Manuscript Management System (www.ifac.papercept.net).

Submit a contribution

Accepted regular and invited session papers presented at SAFEPROCESS 2027 will be published in the proceedings of the event using the open-access IFAC-PapersOnLine series hosted on ScienceDirect. 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).

For all submissions, keywords should be selected from the following list: IFAC SAFEPROCESS 2027 Keywords List

Instructions for Authors

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

Please note that

The final version of the regular/invited session papers must be between 4 and 6 pages (no extra page charge is allowed),
authors and reviewers must follow the “IFAC Statement of the use of AI Tools”. In writing papers and documents, AI and AI-assisted technologies should only be used to assist the author to improve readability and language. The authors remain responsible for the document produced. Any such use of AI tools for the purpose of assisting with writing must be formally declared in any paper or document submitted for consideration for presentation at an IFAC event or for publication in IFAC-PapersOnLine.

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).