Authors are invited to submit papers and proposals for special sessions on all aspects of DCDS research. 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. Accepted papers will be limited to 6 pages in the proceedings, to be published electronically.

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Topics

    Related to specification, design, analysis, implementation, and operation of dependable controllers for critical discrete systems, including (but not limited to) the following:

• Recent advances in fault-tree and fault-forecasting methods
• Formal methods for timed and probabilistic systems
• Modelling and analysis of stochastic systems
• Monitoring and diagnosis of discrete event systems
• Control of fault-tolerant discrete event systems
• Stability analysis and stabilising controllers
• Reconfiguration methods
• Interdisciplinary approaches for dependability improvement
• Applications including (but not limited to) the following: manufacturing and production systems, transport, logistics, automotive, power plants, mechatronics, embedded systems, and healthcare
• Software tools

Best student paper

    In order to encourage young researchers and recognise valuable contributions, a best paper award will be granted to a MS or PhD student who signs the paper as the first author and presents the paper during the workshop. The student must have this status at the moment of submission; this should be explicitly declared that it is presented to this award by sending a email to dcds2015@gdl.cinvestav.mx.

Special Sessions

    Proposals for special sessions consist of a 1-2 page description of the aim and content of the session including a list of 4 to 6 potential papers. In case the special session is not completed, accepted papers will be considered for inclusion in the regular sessions of the program. Authors submitting papers to be considered as part of a Special Session must contact the organisers and send the title, authors and abstract of the contribution. Such papers will be submitted through PaperCept, thus they will be reviewed as regular submission.

Submission

    Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF; they must comply with the IFAC paper layout. Accepted papers will be limited to 6 pages in the proceedings, to be published in IFAC-PapersOnLine. However up to eight pages papers will be allowed with additional charges of 50 EUR per page. Template files are also available for some common word processing tools.

    For submission of papers please use Papercept paper management system.

Copyright condition

    "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 (http://www.elsevier.com/journal-authors/author-rights-and-responsibilities), but see also the Vancouver protocol, and author information (http://labs.elsevier.com/blog/what-makes-an-author-authorship-contributorship-and-micro-attribution) and the authors will abide by the IFAC publication ethics guidelines (http://www.ifac-control.org/events/organizers-guide/PublicationEthicsGuidelines.pdf/view). 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 (http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/). To this end, the author(s) must confer the copyright to IFAC when they submit the final version of the paper through the paper submission process. See also http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/static/copyright.html for the personal permission rights to reproduce the published paper on a personal or institutional www-site."