Information for Authors

Regarding the poster presentations, here are some basic instructions. Posterboards provided by the organizers: the ideal poster size is Landscape format, 5’ x 3’.

1. Papers submission deadline: April 20, 2012

2. EXTENDED DEADLINE: Monday April 30

3. Notice of acceptance: June 14, 2012

4. Final version due: July 15, 2012

Submissions to NecSys 12 are now open.

• All submissions must be uploaded (in pdf format) through the IFAC Conference Manuscript Management System website at http://ifac.papercept.net

• All submissions must follow the IFAC conference format. Instructions for authors are available here. The maximum number of pages is limited to six (6), including figures.

• The workshop will publish official Proceedings, which will be hosted on-line on the IFAC-PapersOnLine website.

• Following the tradition of previous NecSys workshops, all accepted papers will be presented in the poster format.

Following the tradition of previous NecSys workshops, the workshop will be single track and will feature: 10 plenary presentations, and 4 interactive poster/interactive sessions of contributed papers (2 per day).

The poster/interactive sections will not be in parallel with the invited plenaries. This nontraditional choice of oral presentation only for the invited speakers and interactive presentations for all contributed papers, is motivated by the interdisciplinary topics of this workshop. In fact, the invited oral presentations will be of tutorial nature while the contributed papers will be organized in interactive poster sessions with limited number of contributions and with ample reserved time slots, thus hopefully stimulating discussions and promoting ideas exchanges.

All papers must be in agreement with the IFAC Copyright Policy, reported here for convenience.

The material submitted for presentation at an IFAC meeting (Congress, Symposium, Conference, Workshop) must be original, not published or being considered elsewhere. All papers accepted for presentation will appear in the electronic Preprints of the meeting and will be available online to the participants. Papers duly presented at the IFAC Congress, Symposia, Conferences and Workshops will be hosted on-line on the IFAC-PapersOnLine website. 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 IFAC Publication.

Copyright of material presented at an IFAC meeting is held by IFAC. Authors will be required to transfer copyrights electronically. 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 submit an expanded version of the presented material for journal publication elsewhere. In this case, the paper must carry a reference to the IFAC meeting where it was originally presented and, if the paper has appeared on the website www.IFAC-PapersOnLine.net, also a reference to this publication.