AUTHORS INFORMATION

IMPORTANT DATES

•  March 1st, 2009: Submission of proposal for INVITED SESSIONS
•  March 25th, 2009: EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR PAPERS' SUBMISSION
•  May 15th, 2009: Notification of acceptance for papers and invited sessions
•  Juny 30th, 2009: Final camera ready manuscript and registration payment of at least one of the authors
•  September 1-3, 2009 (Tuesday to Thursday): Workshop

Due to numerous requests of the potential contributors, the International Programme Committee has decided to extend the deadline submission to March, 25th, 2009.

IMPORTANT FOR PUBLICATION

In order to have the paper introduced into the proceedings, the following are required (compulsory):

• payment of at least one registrtion fee
• a signed copyright transfer form
• the presentation of the paper at the workshop

PAPERS SUBMISSION

Full papers should be submitted in PDF format by March 15th, 2009, by e-mail to NOC Program Editor (Emil.Petre@automation.ucv.ro) or by using the online submission system. The papers will be reviewed by the program committee, and the corresponding author of each paper will be notified of the result by email.

All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, provided that one author has paid the registration fees and that the final paper is produced in due time and following the publication instructions.

The final papers should be prepared accordingly to the detailled instructions and templates that are available at http://www.ifac-control.org/events/information-for-ifac-authors.

Maximum six pages in double column format are allowed.

Proposal for INVITED SESSIONS by the scope of the workshop are welcome.
People interested in organizing a SESSION should notify their intention to Vladimir Rasvan at the address given below (please see CONTACTS).

The corresponding proposal for INVITED SESSION should contain the title of the session, a list of five (5) or six (6) papers, together with an extended summary (2000 words) of each paper.

Proposal should be sent by March 1st, 2009. Notification of acceptance will be communicated by May 15th, 2009, and the procedure will be similar to the regular papers.

The final camera ready manuscript and registration payment of at least one of the authors are due by July 15th, 2009.

•  Early registrations (before June 15th, 2009) fees: 350 Euros;
•  Late registrations fees: 380 Euros;
•  Early student registration (before June 15th, 2009) fees: 175 Euros;
•  Late student registration fees: 190 Euros.

Regular, Program Committee and Special Sessions registration fee includes:

• Proceedings
• Entry to all Scientific Meetings
• Coffee Breaks
• Lunches
• Social events

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 Preprints of the meeting and will be distributed to the participants.
Proceedings of the IFAC Congress, Symposia, Conferences and Workshops will be hosted on-line on the IFAC-PapersOnLine.net 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 and/or in hard copy. 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.

First Announcement and Call for Papers
Second Call for Papers

Vladimir Rasvan, Prof. (General Chair)
     Department of Automatic Control
     University of Craiova
     A. I. Cuza Str. No. 13 RO-200585 Craiova Romania
     E-mail: vrasvan@automation.ucv.ro, tds09@automation.ucv.ro
     Phone/Fax: +40.251.438198