Submission
Authors are invited to submit their contributions through the IFAC Submission Management System:
Deadlines and Other Dates
- 15 January 2025 – Open Invited Track submission deadline
- 15 February 2025 – Regular Paper initial submission deadline
- 15 March 2025 – Discussion and Dissemination contributions submission deadline
- 31 March 2025 – Acceptance notification
- 15 April 2025 – Final submission deadline
- 30 April 2025 – Early registration rate expires
- 1 June 2025 – Normal registration rate expires
- 18 June 2025 – Late registration rate expires
- 18-20 June 2025 – Workshop dates
Topics
Workshop topics include but are not limited to:
Decision and control techniques
- Distributed and decentralized control and management
- Intelligent control in smart grid
- Wide-area monitoring and control
- Virtual power plants
- Design of energy markets for smart grid
- Fault detection, supervision, and safety
- Modelling and control of prosumer resources
- Smart design and control of energy storage systems
- Artificial Intelligence in control systems
- Non-linear dynamic modeling
- Multi-objective and multi-criteria optimization
- Agent-based and participatory modeling
- Integrated assessment modeling
- Uncertainty management
- Decision support systems
Application fields
- Smart grids
- Smart districts and buildings
- Smart cities
- Energy communities
- Green hydrogen
- Renewable energy
- Sustainable development
- Resource management (water, atmosphere, and land)
- Biotechnological systems
- Environmental systems and energy nexus
- Natural risk management (floods, forest fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc.)
- Power electronics & energy conversion
- Electrical machines & industrial drives
- Smart mobility & transportation electrification
- Electronic system on chip & real-time embedded control
- Industrial processes & manufacturing
Contribution Categories
Regular Contributions
Regular contributions will be selected on the originality, technical soundness, quality of written exposition and relevance to SENSYS 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 workshop proceeding.
The proceedings are published online in partnership with Elsevier in the open access journal IFAC-PapersOnLine. Each paper is uniquely identified by a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), the current standard for electronic papers citation. IFAC-PapersOnLine is indexed by Scopus, the Web of Science (WoS), and Google Scholar.
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 SENSYS, 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 SENSYS. 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.
Dissemination Contributions
Dissemination Contributions provide opportunities to authors whose papers have been recently accepted by IFAC Journals to showcase their results to a broader audience at an IFAC Conference. Submissions shall provide the pdf of the paper as it is accepted in the journal together with a copy of the journal acceptance letter. Presentations of Dissemination Contributions shall be in oral sessions in a 20 minutes format, including questions. The titles and abstracts will be included in the preprints, but they will NOT be included in the IFAC-PapersOnLine proceedings.
Open Invited Track Proposal, Open Invited Track Regular Contributions & Open Invited Track Discussion Contributions
Open invited tracks focus on specific research topics and are to be proposed by track organizers. The proposals are listed on the conference website, and anyone can submit contributions for such tracks as long as the content of the contribution is adapted to the track topics. There is no limitation on the number of contributions per track. Open Invited Track Regular Contributions are reviewed following the same rules as Regular Contributions, and the Papers are published in the IFAC-PapersOnLine proceedings with a 6-page limit. Open Invited Track Discussion Contributions 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 list of Open Invited Tracks can be found here
Regular Contribution and Open Invited Track Regular Contribution
| Initial manuscript | 4 pages minimum, 8 pages maximum |
| Final paper | 6 pages maximum |
| IFAC standard peer review | By the International Program Committee |
| If accepted | Included in the IFAC-PapersOnLine proceedings + oral presentation |
Discussion Contribution and Open Invited Track Discussion Contribution
| Extended abstract | 4 pages maximum |
| Ad hoc evaluation | By the International Program Committee Chairs |
| If accepted | Included in the preprints + oral presentation |
Dissemination Contribution
| Accepted paper in IFAC journal | PDF file + acceptance letter |
| Ad hoc evaluation | By the International Program Committee Chairs |
| If accepted | Abstract in the preprints + oral presentation |
Open Invited Tracks
The list of accepted Open Invited Tracks will be published below.
There has already been interest in proposing two Open Invited Tracks for the workshop:
- Open Invited Track focused on Modelling and Control of Environmental Systems. Anyone interested in contributing to this proposal can contact Marialuisa Volta (marialuisa.volta@unibs.it).
- Open Invited Track focused on Control, Cooperation, and Resilience of Rural Energy Communities. Anyone interested in contributing to this proposal can contact Paolo Scarabaggio and Enrico Zero (paolo.scarabaggio@poliba.it, enrico.zero@dibris.unige.it).
Instructions for Authors
All manuscripts should be prepared and submitted according to IFAC requirements.
- Templates: Authors are responsible for submitting their paper in the required format. Please do not modify the official templates! All papers that are accepted will be published as submitted by the Author. The Conference is not responsible for editing or correcting errors in the paper.
- Plagiarism: All submissions will be tested for similarity and overlap with prior published material using the iThenticate tool.
- Generative AI language tools: Please note that manuscripts generated by generative AI language tools such as ChatGPT are prohibited. If such AI tools generate a small portion of the manuscript, a full reference must be provided. Nevertheless, if generative AI language tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and these contents are included in the manuscript, the responsibility rests entirely on you and the co-author(s). Generative AI language tools cannot be listed as an author.
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 SENSYS. This is awarded for the best SENSYS 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).
