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Call for Papers and Abstracts

The Call for Papers can be downloaded here

NEW The Call for Late Breaking Results can be found here

Important dates

  • Paper submission: 8 November 2023 6 December 2023 Final Deadline: 8 December 2023
  • Invited Session Proposal (papers): 1 November 2023 6 December 2023 Final Deadline: 8 December 2023
  • Late Breaking Results (Extended Abstracts): 15 March 2024
  • Invited Session Proposal (Late Breaking Results): 15 March 2024
  • Notification of acceptance: 29 February 2024
  • Submission of final papers: 27 March 2024 03 April 2024
  • Conference day: 5-7 June 2024

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Papers can be submitted via Papercept. For LaTeX of MS-Word Support, see also: Important information for Manuscript Preparation.

Regular Contribution (Contributed and Invited Papers)
All papers must be written in English and prepared in accordance with the IFAC paper style (See IFAC Author Guide). For the purpose of review only, manuscripts may be up to 8 pages long in two-column format. The length of the final manuscript must be between 4 (minimum) and 6 (maximum) pages in two-column format. All papers will be peer reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in the IFAC-PapersOnLine Proceedings Series.

Late Breaking Results (Extended Abstracts)
All abstracts must be written in English and prepared in accordance with the IFAC paper style (See IFAC Author Guide). Manuscripts may be up to 4 pages long in two-column format. All abstracts will be reviewd by the IPC. Accepted abstracts will be presented at the conference in a regular session. Abstracts will not be published in the IFAC-PapersOnLine Proceedings Series.

Invited Sessions
Invited sessions consist of six contributions presenting a unifying research theme from the scope of ACNDC 2024. Each invited session proposal must contain a session title, names of organizers, a summary describing the motivation and relevance of the proposed session, and a list of the six contributions including paper/abstract titles, author names, affiliations and brief descriptions. Each paper submitted to invited sessions will be peer reviewed (abstracts will be reviewed by the IPC). Upon submission the organizer will obtain an invited session code that should be distributed to contributors.

Copyright conditions

The following does not apply to Late Breaking Results (Abstracts).

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).

See also: IFAC Copyright conditions.

IFAC ACNDC 2024 Young Author Award

The IFAC ACNDC 2024 Young Author Award will be presented for the best paper accompanied by an oral presentation, with the first and presenting author being a student at the time of paper submission.

Self-nominations will not be accepted. Nominations may be made by supervisors, reviewers, or senior co-authors. The nomination deadline for the Award is May 10th, 2024. Nominations should be proposed by completing the nomination form and sending it as a PDF file via email to: contact@acndc2024.org. The email should clearly state the student’s name, the title and ID of the ACNDC 2024 paper, the role of the proposer with respect to the nominee, and the reason for the nomination. The nomination form can be accessed HERE.

A selection committee, appointed by the Programme chair, will choose a number of finalists based on the nomination letters, review reports, and the papers. Finalists will be notified prior to the event. The Committee will select the winner from among the finalists after having attended the oral presentation of the paper.

The award will be presented during the ACNDC 2024 closing event on Friday, June 7th 2024.

The winner, along with all finalists, will be presented with an IFAC certificate.