All papers must be submitted electronically through the PaperCept Conference Management System at https://ifac.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl#WODES14
Format and submission guidelines
Authors are advised to read PaperCept’s Getting Started Manual for Authors (http://css.paperplaza.net/conferences/manuals/authorgetstarted.pdf)
Only PDF files compliant with the IFAC Publications Requirements are acceptable for publication. Detailed instructions for authors and IFAC LaTeX and Word packages are available on the IFAC website: information for IFAC authors.
For the purpose of review only, manuscripts up to eight (8) pages long in the standard two-column IFAC conference format will be considered. If accepted, final manuscripts are limited to six (6) pages. Accepted papers exceeding the normal length may be included in the proceedings upon payment of over-length page charges for each page in excess of six pages (EUR 50 per page), up to a maximum of two additional pages.
Special sessions papers
Special sessions papers will follow the calendar and the reviewing process of regular papers. They must be submitted through PaperPlaza Conference Manuscript Management System as regular papers.
In addition, a message including the title and the authors’ names of the submitted paper and the code (SPE_#) of the special session concerned has to be sent to wodes2014@lurpa.ens-cachan.fr.
Best student paper award
Nomination for best student paper are closed.
In order to recognize important works developed by young people, a best paper award will be granted to a MS or PhD student who signs the paper as the first author and presents the paper during the workshop. The student must have this status at the moment of submission. After the paper has been uploaded, the application should be explicitly declared by mail at wodes2014@lurpa.ens-cachan.fr.
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 (http://www.elsevier.com/journal-authors/author-rights-and-responsibilities), but see also the Vancouver protocol, and author information (http://labs.elsevier.com/blog/what-makes-an-author-authorship-contributorship-and-micro-attribution) and the authors will abide by the IFAC publication ethics guidelines (http://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 (http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/ ). To this end, the author(s) must confer the copyright to IFAC when they submit the final version of the paper through the paper submission process. See also http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/copyright.html for the personal permission rights to reproduce the published paper on a personal or institutional www-site.
The IPC of the IFAC event may screen presented papers with the purpose of recommending the authors to consider a derivative publication of the presented paper in one of the IFAC Journals (at present: Automatica, Control Engineering Practice, Annual Reviews in Control, Journal of Process Control , Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, and Mechatronics). The IFAC Journals have priority access to all contributions presented at IFAC events. However, if the author(s) is (are) not contacted, within three months after the meeting, the author(s) is (are) free to submit an appropriately modified version of the presented material for journal publication as considered appropriate by the author(s). In this case, the journal outlet may be freely chosen by the author(s).”