A summary of the IFAC publications

IFAC promotes the development of control science and technology through various publications:

• IFAC Journals
  • Automatica
  • Control Engineering Practice
  • Annual Reviews in Control
  • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
  • Journal of Process Control
  • Mechatronics
  • Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems
  • IFAC Journal of Systems and Control
• IFAC meetings Preprints and Proceedings
• IFAC-PapersOnLine
• Copyright Conditions
• Newsletters

Publications Management Board

The management of IFAC Publications is vested in the Publications Managing Board:

Under the terms of an agreement between Elsevier Ltd. and IFAC, Elsevier is the official, sole publisher of IFAC publications, with the exception of the Newsletter and IFAC Reports.

All inquiries regarding IFAC Publications should be addressed to:

Kerri Brown
Senior Publisher, Engineering
ELSEVIER | Physical Sciences, Journals
125 London Wall, London, EC2Y 5AS, UK
Email: [email protected]

Preprints

Preprints are the collection of accepted papers produced prior to a meeting for distribution at the meeting, either in printed or electronic form. Preprints provide easy access for participants to papers before or during a meeting. Preprints are provided solely for meeting participants, included as part of the registration fee. Preprints are not a publication and should not have any mark that enables them to be cited as such.

Preprints may include discussion and dissemination contributions.

Discussion and dissemination category proposal

Conferences serve many purposes, among which: “discuss technical issues” and “publish research results” in the form of technical papers. To achieve these two goals, some conferences  accept submissions in the discussion and dissemination categories (see below for a description). Both discussion and dissemination contributions are clearly marked in the conference program.

Discussion contributions are submitted with the goal of being only presented at the conference, in order to get feedback and generate discussion with participants, without generating a publication (that means, they are not published at IFAC-PapersOnLine). For a (fast) reviewing process, a document with 1 to 4 pages is submitted, which gives a short overview of the concepts/ideas to be presented and indicates why the proposed topics are interesting to be discussed at the conference. If accepted, authors decide whether they want either the document with 1 to 4 pages or only an abstract to appear in the conference preprints, in order to make participants aware of the topics to be discussed. These documents are not included in the official conference proceedings published in IFAC-PapersOnLine.

Dissemination contributions are in conjunction to papers that are recently accepted by some IFAC Journal, whose contents can be discussed at IFAC conferences. As discussed by the Technical Board and Publication Board, the selection of dissemination papers is implemented with either one of the following procedures:

• editors of IFAC Journals with topics related to a specific conference provide a list of provisionally accepted papers to the IPC Chair of the conference, who invites authors to present their work at the conference;
• authors of accepted papers in an IFAC journal submit in PaperCept the PDF file of their manuscript and the proof that it was accepted by an IFAC journal.

The IPC Chair decides whether the contribution is included in the program for presentation. In that case, the title and abstract of the (journal) paper is listed in the conference preprints, so that participants can identify them and attend the presentations. Similar to the case of discussion papers, dissemination papers are not included in the official conference proceedings published in IFAC-PapersOnLine. They will not be subject to any review process.

Electronic Publications

Proceedings published following an IFAC event are exclusively electronic, and posted on the IFAC-PapersOnLine website.

Proceedings

Proceedings are the final collection of papers from an IFAC meeting. Proceedings are typically produced after the meeting. Proceedings are the only way in which papers from IFAC meetings are published.
Proceedings from all IFAC conferences are published by IFAC, in cooperation with the IFAC publisher, on the IFAC-PapersOnLine site and are citable via an ISSN and a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), a unique industry-standard identifier assigned to every paper.

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