Papers & Submission Instructions

Papers

You are invited to submit original papers covering the broad spectrum of topics in automatic control in aerospace. See Scope & Topics.

Submission Instructions

All regular papers, invited session proposals and invited session papers must be submitted electronically through the IFAC PaperPlaza Conference Manuscript Management System: https://ifac.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl.

Instructions and paper templates (LateX and Word) are available on the Author Guide page of the IFAC website: Author Guide - www.ifac-control.org/events/authors-guide.

The length of draft regular papers is limited to 8 pages and the length of final papers is limited to 6 pages.

Download templates for paper submission: LateX or Word.

All papers need to be prepared as compliant pdf files. PDF files will be limited to 2 MB in size. See section "PDF specifications" of the Author Guide page of the IFAC website: www.ifac-control.org/events/authors-guide.

Instructions on how to validate and upload pdf files are available on the ACA 2016 paper submission page on the IFAC PaperPlaza Conference Manuscript Management System: https://ifac.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl.

Copyright Conditions

The copyright of all papers must be transferred to IFAC before they can be accepted for presentation at the ACA 2016 Symposium and no paper can be included in IFAC-PapersOnLine unless its Copyright Transfer Form has been received.

See section "Copyright transfer and conditions" of the Author Guide page of the IFAC website: www.ifac-control.org/events/authors-guide.

Download the Transfer of Copyright Form: ACA 2016 Copyright Transfer. Signed form must be sent with the final paper submission.

IFAC: 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 (http://www.elsevier.com/journal-authors/author-rights-and-responsibilities), and the authors will abide by the IFAC publication ethics guidelines (http://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 (http://www.sciencedirect.com). To this end, the author(s) must confer the copyright to IFAC when they submit the final version of the paper through the paper submission process. The author(s) retain the right to use a copy of the paper for personal use, internal institutional use at the author(s)' institution, or scholarly posting at an open web site operated by the author(s) or their institution, limited to noncommercial use. Any other use of the paper requires approval by IFAC."

(Revised 29.07.2015) (Preprints, Proceedings and Copyright Conditions).