The conference proceedings are online.   New  important

Please click the following url to view and download: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/ifac-papersonline/vol/55/issue/3 2022-10-14

The notice about the conference process  

The conference time was finalized as April 23-24, 2022, and the form of attendance is oral report in English. Please confirm the respective report information (mainly time and group) in the conference scheduling manual. ( Download Program ) What’s more, in order to ensure that the papers you submit will be retrieved by EI, you should complete the full registration process, including submitting the final paper, signing another copyright transfer and sending it to IFACLSS2022@163.com with your submission number. Welcome to actively participate. If you have any question, please contact: +86-18915271012，kaigao@mail.nwpu.edu.cn. 2022-04-07

The Notice about conference registration and conference holding information  

1. The final registration time is March 25 . If the registration payment is not completed, the paper will not be included in this conference or retrieved by EI.
2. Due to COVID-19's influence and Xi'an's policy on prevention and control, the conference will be held online, and the specific arrangements for the online meeting will be announced on official website in the near future 2022-3-21

The invitation is available for download.  New 2022-3-10

The Notice about Submission of Copyright Transfer Agreement   2022-3-4

The 16th IFAC Symposium on Large Scale Complex Systems: Theory and Applications (IFAC LSS 2022) is a core triennial event of IFAC Technical Committee on Large Scale Complex Systems. The Symposium is to discuss new developments in methodologies and techniques useful in handling complexity in analysis, modelling, control and optimization of large scale complex systems. The methodologies and tools for the complexity analysis are to be among the key issues of the Symposium. A number of application areas will be addressed. Special attention will be paid to large scale complex systems which are closely connected with the human daily’s life, such as urban traffic systems, autonomous systems, water systems, environmental systems, power supply systems, etc. The IFAC LSS 2022, organized by the Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU) will be held in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.

"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, 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)."