IFAC-PapersOnLine
Last updated ISSN 2405-8963
IFAC-PapersOnLine is published by Elsevier BV in engineering. It is open access. There is no article processing charge.
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What it publishes
Recent work in IFAC-PapersOnLine concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Advanced Control Systems Optimization
- Fault Detection and Control Systems
- Control Systems and Identification
- Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems
- Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems
- Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems
- Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
- Control and Stability of Dynamical Systems
- Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
- Iterative Learning Control Systems
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2405-8963, 2405-8971 |
| Subject area | Engineering |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | None |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 29,408 |
| Publishing since | 2002 |
| Journal website | www.journals.elsevier.com/ifac-papersonline |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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