IMPORTANT DATES
Call for papers July 2008
Submission of full draft papers 30 September 2008, NEW extended 1st November 2008
Notification of acceptance 28 November 2008, NEW extended 19th December 2008
Submission of full papers 31 December 2008, NEW extended 31st January 2008
Early registration 16 March 2009
Workshop 6-8 May 2009

SCOPE
The IFAC Workshop on Control Applications of Optimisation is arranged every three years. The purpose of the Workshop is to present and share ideas on new developments on optimisation and control. Both theoretical research and practical applications are covered, some of the main topics including numerical optimisation techniques, applications in control problems, advances in optimal control, multiobjective optimisation, robust and adaptive control, differential games etc. Sharing ideas between researchers from universities and industry in both theoretical research and applications in this area is especially encouraged to show where the optimisation in today's technological society faces its most important challenges.

The official language of the symposium is English.

TOPICS
The generic topics include but are not limited to

Optimisation methods
Optimal control
Multiobjective optimisation and control
Differential games
Stochastic optimisation
Numerical methods in optimisation
Optimisation with uncertainties
Robust control and stabilisation
Adaptive control
Model-predictive control
Applications in engineering, economics and management
Optimal PDE control

PAPER SUBMISSION

Draft papers max. 6 pages and 1 MB are called in PDF format complying with IFAC-POL guidelines . ZIP compression is encouraged.

All contributions must be in their final form according to IFAC style.

Please refer to http://www.ifac-control.org/events/information-for-ifac-authors .

Papers should be submitted as E-mail attachments to the Secretariat: office@atu.fi.

IFAC COPYRIGHT
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.