Call For Papers, Extended Abstracts, Invited Sessions, Mini-Courses
MTNS 2026 is co-sponsored by IFAC. All submissions to MTNS 2026 are through the Papercept platform. Review paper layout and templates in the IFAC Authors Guide.
Full Papers
Deadline for submission: February 2nd, 2026
Manuscripts submitted as full papers must conform to IFAC copyright conditions – see below – and will undergo a peer review process. The length of a full paper must be between four (4) and eight (8) pages, and the final version should use the template files available through the IFAC Authors Guide. Final papers will be limited to 6 pages.
The full paper should include a maximum of 5 keywords and a maximum of 3 AMS subject classifications. Papers must be original and hence cannot be already published, nor can they be under review elsewhere. Accepted papers that have been presented at the MTNS conference will be published in the proceedings of the event using the open-access IFAC-PapersOnLine series.
Extended Abstracts
Deadline for submission: February 2nd, 2026
Extended abstracts will undergo a simplified review process. The length of extended abstracts must be between two (2) and four (4) pages, and the final version should use the template files through the IFAC Authors Guide. The final version is limited to a maximum of 4 pages.
The extended abstract should include a maximum of 5 keywords and a maximum of 3 AMS subject classifications.
Extended abstracts presented will be available to conference participants and on the conference website, but they will not be published. Accordingly, the IFAC copyright conditions do not apply to extended abstracts.
Invited Sessions
Deadline for submission of proposals: January 9th, 2026
Each invited session consists of 4-6 papers/extended abstracts, dealing with several issues of a unified theme. Talks are provisionally scheduled to last for 25 minutes. If a double invited session is envisaged, 5+4 papers/extended abstracts are recommended. The proposals should contain a 2-4 page long summary statement in PDF format describing the relevance and importance of the session, including a brief summary of the invited papers. Each paper in a proposed invited session will be first individually reviewed, and then the invited session will be evaluated as a whole. The International Programme Committee reserves the right to accommodate the accepted papers/extended abstracts from rejected invited sessions into the regular programme.
The invited session proposals should be submitted using the Papercept system by the session organizer(s). After the submission of the proposal, the invited session will be assigned a code that the session organizers will receive and have to communicate to the session participants.
The session participants can then submit their papers as invited papers indicating the session code and following the submission procedure in Papercept.
Mini-Courses
Deadline for submission of proposals: January 9th, 2026
A mini-course consists of 1 or possibly 2 blocks. Each block contains 4 or 5 slots provisionally scheduled to be of 25 minutes duration. If 2 blocks are proposed 5+4 slots in total are recommended.
Each block of 4 slots consists of 2-4 talks and each block of 5 slots consists of 3-5 talks, prepared and presented in a unified and coherent manner by a team of at most 4 people. A talk may take up 1 or 2 slots.
A mini-course proposal requires a 2-4 page long extended abstract providing the structure of the whole mini-course, with no requirement of abstracts for the individual talks. The proposals should be submitted using the Papercept system by the mini-course organizer(s).
IFAC Copyright Conditions
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, and the authors will abide by the IFAC publication ethics guidelines.
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. 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).
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