Call for papers

Contributions are invited in all areas pertaining to the engineering of hybrid systems including: modelling, specification, verification, analysis, control synthesis, simulation, validation, and implementation. We solicit papers and invited session proposals describing theoretical or applied research in the area. We also welcome papers describing tools, reporting case studies or connecting the cognate fields of control theory and formal verification.

Contributions are encouraged on applications of hybrid methods in various fields, such as automotive, avionics, energy and power, mobile and autonomous robotics, the process and manufacture industry, transportation and infrastructure networks, communication networks and networked control systems, cyber-physical systems, safety-critical systems, systems and synthetic biology.

The Program Chairs are planning to edit a special issue of NAHS: the authors of selected papers will be invited to contribute with significantly revised and extended versions of their manuscripts, containing new results.

New this year: ADHS'21 will feature a repeatability evaluation (RE). In other words, all accepted papers which include computational artifacts will be invited to submit these for evaluation to be conducted by a RE program committee. In this way, we aim to improve the reproducibility of computational results in the papers accepted for publication. Note that it is optional to submit an RE package, i.e., availability of a RE package will not affect the final publication of the corresponding paper. Papers whose RE packages pass the repeatability evaluation will be listed online and in the final proceedings. At the same time, papers whose RE package does not pass the repeatability evaluation criteria will be treated the same as papers which do not submit RE packages.

The CFP is available here and the poster is available here.
Circulation of this material is appreciated. Please send an email to adhs2021@uclouvain.be containing your postal address if you wish to receive printed copies of the poster and or flyers.

Important dates

Invited session proposals due:
December 16, 2020 Extended: January 4, 2021

Regular papers and invited session papers due:
December 23, 2020 Extended: January 13, 2021

Author notification:
Late February, 2021 (tentatively February 24)

Repeatability Evaluation package submission (optional):
March 10, 2021

Final papers due:
May 2, 2021

All deadlines are 23:59:59 Pacific Time.

Author Guidelines

Regular papers: Regular papers can have a length of up to 8 pages at submission. Accepted papers are limited to 6 pages in the conference preprints and on-line proceedings. For papers describing tools, please tick the keyword "Computational tools" upon submission.

Invited session proposals: Invited sessions consist of 4 to 6 papers related to a common theme that fits within the scope of ADHS. An invited session proposal should contain a short description of the common theme as well as the list of papers in the session and their abstracts.

The invited session organiser first has to submit the pdf file of the session proposal (without participating papers). The IFAC Conference Manuscript Management System then returns an acknowledgment that contains an alpha-numeric code for the proposed session. Subsequently, the organiser has to notify the contributing authors of their invited session code. The corresponding author of each paper then submits the paper on-line as an invited paper.

Invited session papers: Invited session papers can have a length of up to 8 pages at submission. Accepted papers are limited to 6 pages in the conference preprints and on-line proceedings. Submission as an invited session paper requires the invited session code, which can be obtained from the session organizer.

Support for Authors: Author's kits with style (.cls) files for LaTeX are available from the submission website. Go to http://ifac.papercept.net and select "Support" for these files and example files, or directly go to the support page. Please do not change the formatting in any way.

Submissions and registrations policies

The website for submission is https://ifac.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl.

All papers submitted to ADHS2021 must be written in English and formatted in the standard IFAC 2-column format provided on the IFAC Conference Management System website (see the item "Support for Authors" above).

For initial submissions, all regular and invited session papers are limited to 8 pages. The submission website will not permit longer papers to be uploaded.

For the final upload, all accepted and invited papers are limited to 6 pages.

For each accepted paper, at least one of the authors should have a full registration in order to have the paper included in the preprints and the post-conference on-line proceedings at IFAC-PapersOnLine.


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, and the authors will abide by the IFAC publication ethics guidelines.

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. To this end, the author(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).

More information here.