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5th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design
Toulouse, France, July 5-7, 2006
ROCOND 2006
Last updated : March 10, 2006

Timetable

  • Call for papers - first announcement in May, 2005.
  • Electronic paper submission site starts in July, 2005.
  • Draft papers due for September 1st, 2005 extended till September 19th, 2005.
  • Paper acceptance notification in January 2006.
  • Final papers due for March 10, 2006 extended till March 15th, 2006.
  • Final program in April 2006.
  • Symposium on July 5-7, 2006.

Contributed papers

Submitted manuscripts must be written in English, must comply with the IFAC format and cannot exceed 6 two-column pages. For detailed instructions, see the IFAC publications web-site: www.elsevier.com/locate/ifac.
Manuscripts must be submitted electronically before September 19th, 2005.


Note that for regular papers authors are invited to choose to present their paper in a poster session, a regular oral session or both. This information is not mandatory and will be used only for organizing the sessions. All papers will be evaluated on the same basis.

Invited Sessions

People interested in organizing a session should contact Didier Henrion before September 19th, 2005.

Submitting an invited session is done electronically. The invited session proposal should contain the session title, the name and affiliation (including the full address) of the session organizers, as well as the title, authors and affiliation information of each proposed  paper (5 to 6) in the session. Also a short description of the topic of the invited session and a short summary of each paper should be provided. The invited session will be given a number used for the contributors to post their manustrcipts.

Invited session papers will be evaluated on the same basis as regularly contributed papers. The authors should submit individual papers of an invited session in the same way as contributed papers before September 19th, 2005.

Publication and Copyright

The material submitted for presentation must be original, not published or being considered elsewhere.

All papers accepted for presentation will appear in the preprints of the meeting and will be distributed to the participants. Papers duly presented will be archived and offered for sale, in the form of Proceedings, by Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, UK. The presented papers will be further screened for possible publication in the IFAC Journals (Automatica, Control Engineering Practice, Annual Reviews in Control, Journal of Process Control and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence), or in IFAC affiliated journals. All papers presented will be recorded on the IFAC Publications website: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ifac.

Copyright of material presented at an IFAC meeting is held by IFAC. Authors will be sent a copyright transfer form. The IFAC Journals and, after these, IFAC affiliated journals have priority access to all  contributions presented. However, if the author is not contacted by an editor of these journals within three months after the meeting, he/she is free to re-submit the material for publication elsewhere. In this case, the paper must carry a reference to the IFAC meeting where it was originally presented.

The copyright form is available here (PDF 104kB). All authors should print this form, sign it and return it to
D. Peaucelle - ROCOND'06
LAAS-CNRS
7, av. du colonel Roche
31077 Toulouse, FRANCE

Preparation of final manuscript

The final version of an accepted paper must have been revised according to the comments of the reviewers  and must comply with the IFAC formatting standard. For detailed formatting instructions, see the IFAC publications web-site: http://www1.elsevier.com/homepage/saf/ifac/site/IPV%20overview.htm.

The acceptable file format is exclusively PDF. In the PDF file all used fonts must be embedded to guarantee a correct appearance of the contents.  Papers exceeding 6 two-column pages will not be included.

Electronic submission of the final version of manuscripts is due by March 15th, 2006 see

http://www2.laas.fr/cgi-bin/form-rocond06-finalpaper.cgi

Authors are also required to submit a final abstract (text only without LaTeX controls) and make any final changes to the author list and title of the paper before uploading the paper. Information not updated on the submission site will not be included in the final program of the conference.