Submission
The program of IFAC IMS 2025 will consist of several kinds of presentations, including full paper presentations in regular sessions, invited and special sessions.
All papers as well as Invited Session and Proposal must be electronically submitted through the PaperPlaza Conference Manuscript Management System. A short step-by-step submission guide:
- On the submission portal: https://ifac.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl, you may see the list of IFAC conferences.
- Please find the IMS 2025 conference on the list. After that, please select: Submit a contribution to IMS 2025 – it will take you to the page where you can choose your submission type.
- In the table at the bottom of the screen, select the appropriate option:
- Regular Paper
- Invited Session Proposal
- Invited Session Paper
- Special Session Proposal
- Special Session Proposal
- Special Session Paper
- If you have chosen one of the options, you have to fill out the submission form.
- To submit your contribution, you must have an account in the ifac.papercept.net system – if you do not have one, you must first create one: https://ifac.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/pinwizard.pl
Guidelines for the preparation of manuscripts are provided on the IFAC website.
Authors are advised to read PaperCept’s Getting Started Manual for Authors.
Only files compliant with the IFAC Publications Requirements are acceptable for publication.
Contribution categories
Regular contributions will be selected on the originality, technical soundness, quality of written exposition and relevance to IFAC IMS 2025 topics. Manuscript submissions are at least 4 pages long and most 6 pages long to be included in the IFAC-PapersOnLine proceedings. Presentations are in oral sessions during the conference in a 20 minutes format, including questions.
Call for invited and special sessions
Invited sessions consist of 5-6 papers of the regular format focusing on targeted subjects and presenting a unifying theme. Invited session organizers should submit an abstract that summarizes the aim and the content of the invited session. A code will be assigned to such a session. The invited authors should submit their papers by using this code. If at least 5 papers are accepted, the session is included in the workshop program as an invited session. If an invited session is not accepted, accepted papers submitted to this session will be included in regular sessions.
Organizers of Invited Sessions are requested to register their sessions through the PaperPlaza Conference Manuscript Management System, to obtain the session reference code, to provide the code to the authors, and to advise the authors to use the code in their paper submission (as invited session paper).
Special sessions (Industrial, New Frontiers, Special Projects, etc.): Special sessions offer a venue for the presentation of topics of special academic, social or industrial interest, such as emerging research areas or most recent trends in manufacturing modelling, management and control. The format of special sessions is more flexible – it allows a panel discussion, or a workshop led by the session chair(s), to motivate the exchange of opinions among presenters and participants. Special session presentations may be in the form of regular papers (maximum 6 pages).
Companies or researchers interested in holding special sessions, workshops or exhibits are invited to contact the conference organizers.
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).
