Information for authors

Initial submissions
Best student paper award
Best Student Poster Paper Presentation Award
Plagiarism policy
Final paper upload
Interactive Papers (Poster Papers) Preparation Instructions

Initial submissions

Following contributions are sought:

• Contributed papers:
• Initial submission: up to 6 pages
• Final submission: 3 pages (recommended); up to 6 pages (permitted)
• Practitioner papers:
• Initial submission: an abstract
• Final submission: 2 pages (recommended); up to 6 pages (permitted)
• Invited Session Proposals:
• An invited session proposal must be submitted via PaperPlaza.
• Proposals should be up to 2 page long submissions comprising of:
• Title of the invited session including justification of the session topic
• Title and an abstracts of each invited paper; and
• Names and affiliations of the invited paper co-authors.
• An invited session consists of 6 papers
• Upon submission and the acceptance of their invited session proposals, the main session organiser will receive an invited session code and be asked to distribute it to paper co-authors before they submit invited session papers.
• The six invited session papers have to be submitted separately by the respective authors in the format prescribed for submission of contributed papers.  Each paper in a proposed invited session will be individually reviewed and thus may not be accepted.  Consequently, IPC may decide to add another contributed paper to the invited session if it is on the topic of relevance to the invited session.
• The submission deadline for invited session papers is the same as for contributed papers.

• Presentation-only papers
• Initial submission: up to a page-long abstract (note: abstract submissions will go through a peer review process); the IEEE paper format must be used
• Final submission: up to a page-long abstract (the final version). It is important to note that presentation-only papers will not be included in the Conference Proceedings.  However, they will be a part of the Conference Program (if accepted) and their abstracts will be included in the Book of Abstracts which will be distributed to the conference participants.

All these submission options are subject to the same submission deadline. Please note that these page limits are hard limits. Longer submissions will not be accepted. There will be no provision for paid over the length submissions (excess page charges).
All papers submitted to ANZCC 2018 must be written in English and formatted in the standard 2-column format for IEEE Control Systems Society conferences. Both, the Initial submissions and Final submissions must use the A4 paper, European format only.

• Follow this link for detailed instructions on how to prepare a compliant pdf file for submission to ANZCC 2018. You will find LaTeX style files (the recommended option), MS Word templates and information about the correct settings to convert your LaTeX or MS Word file to compliant pdf there.
• Please use the online pdf compliance test with ANZCC 2018 selected as the conference before trying to upload your paper.
• Papers must be submitted through the PaperCept Conference Management System (scroll down the page for the ANZCC 2018 submission link).
• Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference and present their work. For details please see the ANZCC 2018 conference registration policy.

For details on how to upload your submission, please go to the paper submission page.

Best student paper award - The Award nomination submission deadline is on 15 October 2018 by 23:59.

This award will be presented to a student whose paper is selected by the Awards committee. The award consists of a certificate and a cheque for AUD $500. Runner ups will be awarded a certificate only.
Eligibility: The accepted papers on which a postgraduate or undergraduate student is the first named author are eligible for the award. In particular, the first author should be enrolled as a postgraduate or undergraduate student on the date of the conference submission deadline. The student's supervisor should write a nomination letter confirming the student eligibility and outlining the reasons for nomination; the letter (emails are accepted) should be sent to the Awards committee chair Michael Cantoni, (cantoni@unimelb.edu.au) with a copy to the Program Committee Chair, Fuwen Yang (fuwen.yang@griffith.edu.au).

Best Student Poster Paper Presentation Award

ANZCC 2018 provides this award to honour an effort authors commit towards preparing a high quality poster and presenting the paper content on the best possible way within the poster paper presentation time slot. The Award will be announced at the closing ceremony of the Conference.

Plagiarism policy

Each submitted paper must represent original work that neither has appeared or has been accepted to appear elsewhere for publication, nor is simultaneously under review for another publication, in its current form. If the submitted paper contains any of the (co)authors' previously published work(s) as a basis for the submission, the previous work(s) must be cited and indication must be given as to how the new submission offers substantive novel contributions beyond those of the previously published work(s).
In accordance with the IEEE Policy, all submissions will be tested for similarity and overlap with prior published material using the iThenticate tool. Results of such overlap will be made available to the Program committee for evaluation. In case of possible violations of the IEEE ethics rules in publishing, the case will be handled in accordance with the IEEE CSS guidelines and may be reported to the IEEE Control Systems Society Committee for Ethics in Publishing. The IEEE CSS guidelines for handling complaints on plagiarism are available here.
The ANZCC 2018 Plagiarism committee is chaired by Victor Sreeram.

Final paper upload

For details on how to upload the final version of accepted papers, please go to the paper submission page.

Interactive Papers (Poster Papers) Preparation Instructions

Please note that posters will have to satisfy certain compliance requirements.
Poster Boards are 2400mm high and 825mm wide.
Therefore, posters must be printed in portrait orientation, and must be no larger than A0 paper size (841mm wide, 1189mm high).
There will be Velcro dots to secure posters to the boards. Pins cannot be used as the boards have a hard surface. We suggest that you laminate your poster.