First Call for Papers

www.IFAC2023.org
22nd IFAC World Congress 2023
July 9 – 14, 2023, Yokohama, JapanThe IFAC World Congress Since 1957, the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) has
contributed greatly to promoting scientific activities and technological developments in the field of automaticcontrol. The IFAC World Congress is the largest event in the field of control science and technology, held
every three years. It offers the most up-to-date and complete view of control techniques, with the widest
coverage of application fields, and is attended by a worldwide audience of scientists and engineers fromacademia and industry. This is the second congress hosted in Japan with the first being IFAC 1982 in Kyoto.

YOKOHAMA – Japan’s First Port of Call The IFAC 2023 will be held in Yokohama, the historicalgateway to Japan since the nation opened up to the outside world in 1859. Today, while it has evolved into aleading metropolis, Yokohama retains an easy-going atmosphere that is unique in Japan. Less congested
than other cities, it enjoys breezes off the Pacific Ocean and visitors can experience its unrivaled outdoor wayof life. Yokohama is the location of choice for hundreds of internationally minded companies and is a hub ofacademia and research. Organizations and businesses choose to be based in Yokohama because it is aplace where ideas come together, where alliances can be forged, and where innovation is happening everyday. Those same attributes have made this city the ideal location for global conferences.

Important Dates

Submission Categories

PaperCept site opens
May 2022
Open Invited Track proposals
Sep. 2022
Invited Session proposals
Oct. 2022
Regular / Invited papers submission Oct. 2022
Tutorials / Workshops /Extended Abstracts submission Nov. 2022
Notification of acceptance
Feb. 2023
Final Paper submission
Mar. 2023

Regular papers (6 to 8 pages)
Extended abstracts (2 to 4 pages)
Discussion papers (2 to 4 pages)
Survey papers (up to 12 pages)
Dissemination papers
Demonstration papers
Tutorials / Workshops

Organizers

ContactOrganizers
IFAC Japan NMO (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)

Secretariat of the IFAC 2023 (c/o Congrès Inc.)
E-mail: ifac2023@congre.co.jp
Phone: +81-3-3510-3701

Conference Highlights
Special technical events at IFAC2023 will include plenary/semi-plenary lectures, panel discussions, forums
on focused topics, competitions, demonstrations, and tutorials/workshops on the state of the art in thegeneral area of control science and technology. Collaboration between academia and industry will behighlighted by events organized by the IFAC Industry Committee and the IFAC2023 Industry Group.
Different options will be available for presentations and paper categories. In addition to regular and invitedcontributions, papers can be submitted to open invited tracks focusing on specific research topics (to bespecified in the congress webpage). One may also present their works in shorter formats as extended
abstracts and discussion papers. Moreover, under the new category of dissemination contributions, papers
recently accepted by IFAC journals may be presented. The papers will be published both in the IFAC2023
proceedings and IFAC PapersOnLine.
Vision of IFAC2023 “WA: Control for Solving Societal Problems and Creating Societal Values”
Today, application domains in our society to which control engineers can contribute are vast, includingtransportation, power systems, smart cities, and medical and social services. At IFAC 2023, we haveproposed the vision of “Wa” (Harmony in Japanese) as one of the future directions of control science andtechnology. In a broad sense, it represents the design of large harmonious control loops to solve societal
problems in these domains. To this end, our efforts would require close cooperation with experts not only
those in specific application domains, but also those with whom we can share methodologies for tackling
emerging problems.
We may envision that “control” will be
integrated with the new technologicaltrends in Artificial Intelligence, Internet ofThings, and Data Science. At IFAC 2023,
we plan to have various events related toHarmony
this vision in the form of forums andpanel discussions.

Technical Areas

National Organizing Committee

Systems & Signals
Design Methods
Computers, Cognition & Communication
Mechatronics, Robotics & Components
Manufacturing and Logistics Systems
Process and Power Systems
Transportation & Vehicles Systems
Bio- & Ecological Systems
Social Systems

IFAC President:
General Chair:
General Vice-Chairs :IFAC2023 Industry Group (Chair: Kazuya Asano)
Mechatronic SystemsAerospace Technology
Power & Energy Systems
Marine Systems
Machinery and Robotics
Environmental Systems
Steel Manufacturing Processes
Biological & Medical Systems
Chemical Processes
Systems Science & Technology
Automotive Control
Internet of Things
Smart Cities
Artificial Intelligence
Smart Agriculture
Measurement & Instrumentation
Control in Construction

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)

Copyright Conditions
All publication material submitted for presentation at an IFAC-sponsored meeting (Congress, Symposium, Conference, Workshop) must beoriginal 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 theElsevier 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 IFACPapersOnLine series hosted on ScienceDirect (https://sciencedirect.com/). To this end, the author(s) must grant exclusive publishing rights toIFAC under a Creative Commons license when they submit the final version of the paper. The copyright belongs to the authors, who have theright 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).