The material submitted for presentation at the IFAC Congress must be original and not published or being considered for publication elsewhere. All papers accepted for presentation will be put on the electronic publications Web site IFAC-PapersOnLine.net. The papers on this Web site will be searchable, citable, and individually downloadable without cost to readers. The IFAC Seoul 2008 will be the first Congress in IFAC’s 50-year history to provide its participants with a great opportunity to gain wide publicity for the papers they present at the Congress. The presented papers will be further screened for possible publication in the IFAC Journals (Automatica, Control Engineering Practice, Annual Reviews in Control, Journal of Process Control, Mechatronics, and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence), or in other IFAC-affiliated journals.

Copyright of material presented at an IFAC meeting is held by IFAC. Authors will be required to transfer copyrights electronically. IFAC and 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, the author is free to submit an expanded version of the presented material for journal publication elsewhere. In this case, the paper must carry a reference to the IFAC meeting where it was originally presented, and if the paper has appeared in the Web site IFAC-PapersOnLine.net, a reference to this form of publication must also be indicated.