The 2016 American Control Conference, July 6–8, Boston, MA, USA

Sponsoring Organizations

The 2016 American Control Conference will be held Wednesday through Friday, July 6–8 at the award-winning Boston Marriott Copley Place, centrally located in the Back Bay district of downtown Boston, MA. The conference venue is connected to the Copley Place Mall with lots of shops, restaurants, and a large grocery store, as well as within minutes of the historic sites like Trinity Church, Boston Common and the Public Garden, Kenmore Square, Beacon Street, and Fenway Park, the home of the Boston Red Sox. Other sites like Harvard Square, MIT, Faneuil Hall, the Freedom Trail, the Bunker Hill Monument, and the New England Aquarium are easily accessible via Boston's famous subway, "The T".

The ACC is the annual conference of the American Automatic Control Council (AACC, the U.S. national member organization of the International Federation for Automatic Control (IFAC)). National and international society co-sponsors of ACC include American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Applied Probability Society (APS), IEEE Control Systems Society (IEEE-CSS), International Society of Automation (ISA), Society for Modeling & Simulation International (SCS), and Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

The ACC is internationally recognized as a premier scientific and engineering conference dedicated to the advancement of control theory and practice. The ACC brings together an international community of researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest findings in automatic control. The 2016 ACC technical program will comprise several types of presentations in regular and invited sessions, tutorial sessions, and special sessions along with workshops and exhibits. Submissions are encouraged in all areas of the theory and practice of automatic control.

The 2016 ACC Operating Committee invites the worldwide participation of all those interested in the theory and practice of automatic control systems. Welcome to Boston!

General Chair
Danny Abramovitch
Agilent Labs
[email protected]

Program Chair
George Chiu
Purdue University
[email protected]


2016 ACC Submission and Registration Policies
  • All papers submitted to ACC 2016, whether for review or publication upon acceptance, must be written in English and formatted in the standard 2-column format provided on PaperPlaza.
  • For initial submissions, all regular and invited papers are limited to eight (8) pages. PaperPlaza will not permit longer papers to be uploaded.
  • For final upload and publication in the conference proceedings, all accepted and invited papers are limited to six (6) pages at no extra charge. Authors may upload longer manuscripts up to a maximum of eight (8) pages total. However, each page in excess of six will incur a charge of USD 200.
  • At least one of the authors listed on the paper must register for ACC 2016 at the full member/non-member rate to upload the final manuscript. A maximum of 4 papers can be uploaded with a single registration. Additional uploads on the same registration will require a payment of USD 200 per paper.
  • Please note: If an author registers at a reduced registration rate (student/retiree), s/he will not be able to use that registration to upload the final paper.


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Contacts for Sponsors:

Aranya Chakrabortty
[email protected]
(Vice Chair for Industry & Applications)

Mike Borrello
[email protected] 
(Exhibits Chair)

Danny Abramovitch
[email protected]
(General Chair)




 

Tentative Key Dates

Draft Manuscripts:
due September 30, 2015

Best Student Paper Nominations:
due October 5, 2015

Workshop Proposals:
due October 16, 2015

Applications Tutorials:
due November 23, 2015

Acceptance/Rejection Notice:
by January 31, 2016

Final Manuscript Submission:
due March 22, 2016

Applications Friday
Student
Poster Submission:
due June 15, 2016