Second Call for Papers

www.IFAC2023.org
The 22nd World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
July 9 – 14, 2023, Yokohama, JapanThe IFAC World Congress is the largest event in the field of control scienceand technology, held every three years since 1960. It offers the most up-todate and complete view of control techniques, with the widest coverage ofapplication fields, and is attended by a worldwide audience of scientists andengineers from academia and industry. The IFAC World Congress 2023
will be held in Yokohama, Japan, which is the second congress hosted
in Japan with the first being IFAC 1982 in Kyoto.

Conference Format
The IFAC2023 national organizing committee would make every effort to realize face-to-face meetings aspossible. Still, there will also be an option to participate on-line, to accomodate the likely lasting influencesof the COVID-19 pandemic.

Program Highlights
The vision of IFAC2023 is “Wa”, which literally means “harmony” in Japanese. In a broad sense,
it represents the design of large harmonious control loops to solve societal problems in various domains.
The congress program includes special sessions tofocus on this vision from various aspects, throughplenary and semi-plenary lectures, forums, panel
discussions, demonstrations, tutorials, workshops,
as well as regular technical sessions.
HarmonyPaper Categories• Regular paper (R): up to 6 pages in the proceedings (up to 8 pages for initial submission)• Survey paper (S): up to 12 pages in the proceedings (up to 16 pages for initial submission)• Discussion paper (D): from 2 to 4 pages, for discussing specific topics, particularly from non-academic
participants (not to be included in IFAC-PapersOnLine (POL))

Submission Categories• Regular contributions (R/S/D)• Invited contributions (R/S/D): invited by the organizers, selected under regular criteria• Open Invited Track contributions (R/S/D): focus on specific research topics, based on proposals• Demonstrator contributions (R/D): for promoting and showcasing research or education-oriented devices,innovative prototypes and transferring technologies to the enterprise.
• Dissemination contributions: papers recently accepted by IFAC journals, not to be included in IFAC-POL• Tutorials and Workshops

Important Dates
Sep. 15, 2022
Oct. 15, 2022
Oct. 31, 2022Nov. 30, 2022
Feb. 1, 2023
Feb. 21, 2023
Mar. 31, 2023

Open Invited Track proposals deadline
Invited Session proposals deadline
Regular / Invited papers submission deadline
Tutorial / Workshop proposals deadline
Discussion papers (Invited Sessions / Open Invited Tracks) deadline
Discussion papers due (Regular) deadline
Notification of acceptance
Final paper submission deadline

IFAC2023 Technical Areas
Systems & Signals
Design Methods
Computers, Cognition & Communication
Mechatronics, Robotics & Components
Cyber-Physical Manufacturing Enterprise
Process and Power Systems
Transportation & Vehicles Systems
Bio- & Ecological Systems
Social Systems

National Organizing Committee
IFAC President:
General Chair:
General Vice-Chairs:
Advisory Board Chair:

Hajime Asama
Jun-ichi Imura
Tetsuo Sawaragi
Keiko Takahashi
Shinji Hara

International Program Committee
IPC Chair:
IPC Co-Chair:
IPC Vice-Chairs:

Hideaki Ishii (JP)Yoshio Ebihara (JP)Carlos Eduardo Pereira (BR)
Alessandro Astolfi (GB)Klaus Janschek (DE)
Tariq Samad (US)IPC Editors:
Lars Eriksson (SE)Thierry Marie Guerra (FR)
Hideaki Ishii (JP)Benoit Iung (FR)Andreas Kugi (AT)Jay H. Lee (KR)Laura Menini (IT)
Lawrence Stapleton (IE)
Ronald van Nooijen (NL)IFAC2023 Industry Group is a large and active

community including colleagues from academia andindustry. It takes in organizing various collaborative
events such as panel discussions, forums, exhibitions
and technical tours. (Chair: Kazuya Asano)Industry subgroups
Mechatronic Systems
Power & Energy Systems
Machinery and Robotics
Steel Manufacturing Process
Chemical Processes
Automotive Control
Smart Cities
Smart Agriculture
Control in Construction

Aerospace Technology
Marine Systems
Environmental Systems
Biological & Medical Systems
Systems Science & Technology
Internet of Things
Artificial Intelligence
Measurement and Instrumentation

Contact
Secretariat of the IFAC 2023 (c/o Congrès Inc.)
E-mail: ifac2023@congre.co.jp
Phone: +81-3-3510-3701
Organizers
IFAC Japan NMO (under the Science Council of Japan)
Japan Association of Automatic Control (JAAC)
Co-Organizers
The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE)
The Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers (ISCIE)
Supported by
City of Yokohama
Yokohama Convention and Visitors Bureau
Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO)

Join the IFAC Control Orchestra!
The IFAC2023 organizers are planning to form an orchestra ensemble, including only
musicians from the automatic control community, to make a live performance on site
during the world congress. We are looking for colleagues who have some musicalexperience. If you have some musical experience and are interesting in this event,please subscribe to the orchestra mailing list through the congress website.

Performance at IFAC2020

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(https://www.elsevier.com/authors/journal-authors/policies-and-ethics),
and the authors will abide by the IFAC publication ethics guidelines(https://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 series hosted on ScienceDirect (https://sciencedirect.com/). To this end, theauthor(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).