CDC 2016 - 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

The 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control will be held Monday through Wednesday, December 12-14, 2016 at the ARIA Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, NV, USA. The conference will be preceded by technical workshops on Sunday, December 11, 2016.
The CDC is recognized as the premier scientific and engineering conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of systems and control. The CDC annually brings together an international community of researchers and practitioners in the field of automatic control to discuss new research results, perspectives on future developments, and innovative applications relevant to decision making, automatic control, and related areas.
The 55th CDC will feature contributed and invited papers, as well as tutorial sessions and workshops.
The IEEE CDC is hosted by the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) in cooperation with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Japanese Society for Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), and the EUropean Control Association (EUCA).
Las Vegas is The Entertainment Capital of the World. It features many mega-hotel/casino complexes, museums, shows and concerts. It hosts fifteen of the world's 25 largest hotels by room count. The dramatic architecture, the rapidly evolving skyline and constant modernization of hotels, casinos, restaurants have established it as one of the most popular destinations in the world, with more than 41 million visitors per year.
The area was first explored in 1829, and it was named Las Vegas, which is Spanish for "the meadows". The city itself was founded in 1905 and it is the most populous city in Nevada. Its metropolitan area hosts nearly 2 million people.
ARIA Resort & Casino, with its 61 and 51-story towers, opened in 2009. The sophisticated, contemporary design of the 300,000 square feet of meeting and pre-function space creates the perfect setting for events and conferences. Scenic rooftop gardens and a design infused with elements of nature create an environment that welcomes the senses and blends business and pleasure.