Submissions
Read about submissions for SIMS 2026, September 16-17, Eskilstuna, Sweden.
Submit your full paper
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Full paper submission (6 pages) instructions: Please use the MS-Word template provided on IFAC PaperCept portal. Also here:
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, and the authors will abide by the IFAC publication ethics guidelines.
Policies and ethics, on the Elsevier webpage External link.
Publication ethics guidlines, on the IFAC webpage External link.
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. 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).
ScienceDirect webpage External link.
Use of AI
Authors and reviewers must follow the "IFAC Statement of the use of AI Tools" included in the Organizers Guide where it is clearly explained what is expected from them in relation to the use of AI-tools in paper writing and reviewing.
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