Call for Papers

Regular Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit full draft papers electronically through the conference submission web-site http://ifac.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl by November 6, 2011. Detailed formatting instructions and the link to the paper submission site are found at the submission web-site. Draft papers should clearly indicate the merits of the new contributions, the relevance to the topics and areas of SAFEPROCESS 2012 and related literature to allow a fair reviewing procedure by the International Program Committee. Only unpublished material may be submitted

Invited Session

Invited session proposals should be sent to the IPC Chair J. Lunze (Lunze@atp.rub.de) by October 23, 2011. The proposal should include the title of the session, name, affiliation and address of the organizer, a brief summary of the session topic, and a list of the invited papers with authors and titles. Upon receipt of the proposal, a session identification number will be assigned. Authors of the invited sessions must submit their full draft papers by the November 6 deadline, specifying the invited session to which they belong.

Accepted papers will only be included in the program if at least one of the authors has registered and paid the registration fee by the May 15 deadline. Student registration entitles the participant to submit one paper. The symposium participants will receive a CD-ROM containing the full text of all accepted papers. The full text of all papers presented at the symposium will be published, after the symposium, on the IFAC Paper Online web-site www.IFAC-PapersOnLine.net

Papers in a proposed invited session will be individually reviewed, and that the proposed invited session itself will also be rated as a whole.

To ensure the continuity of the program and that papers addressing similar issues are grouped together, at the discretion of the Program Committee, individual papers may be removed from a proposed session and replaced by appropriate contributed papers. Likewise, selected papers from rejected invited sessions may be placed into the regular program.

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, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Mechatronics, or in IFAC affiliated journals. All papers presented will be recorded as an IFC Publication.