WODES 2012 - 11th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems

Authors are invited to submit papers and proposals for special sessions on all aspects of DES research to the workshop secretariat by April 13th, 2012.
Contributions must be not published or submitted to other conferences/journals before or parallel to this workshop. They should clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work and the results achieved.

Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format. Accepted papers will be limited to 6 pages in the proceedings, to be published electronically.
Special sessions should consist of 4 to 6 papers along with a 1-2 page description of the aim and content of the session.
Papers in special sessions will be reviewed individually. In case the special session is not accepted, individual papers will be considered for inclusion in the regular program.
Best student paper

In order to recognize important works by young people, among the regularly submitted papers signed by a MS or PhD student as the first author, a best paper award will be granted. In the submission it should be explicitly declared that the paper is presented to this award.

Copyright condition
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 specialized 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.