The 2013 American Control Conference, June 17 - 19, Washington, DC

Sponsoring Organizations

Post-Conference News and Report
  • ACC 2013 is over! The conference organizers would like to thank all attendees for their participation.
  • We have been gratified by the positive feedback we have received. With 1475 registrants, the conference was one of the largest ACCs!
  • Approximately 59% of registrants were from the US, 19% from Europe, 11% from Asia, 5% from Canada, 3% from Central/South America, and 1% from Australia/New Zealand.
  • Thank you to the many respondents of our post-conference survey! A summary of the feedback is available here .

Invitation Video
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    • Written, directed, and produced by Daniel Abramovitch.

    • Voices include Daniel Abramovitch, Sean Andersson, Lucy Pao, and University of Colorado Control Systems research students, Jacob Aho, Holly Borowski, Andrew Buckspan, Fiona Dunne, Jason Laks, J. Patrick O'Brien, Shervin Shajiee, Yassmin Shalaby, and Eric Simley.

    • Video Advice and Finish Video Production: John Flowers.

The 2013 American Control Conference will be held Monday through Wednesday, June 17 - 19, at the Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel, which is centrally located in Washington, DC, within 7 blocks of the White House, the US Capitol building, the National Mall, and the Smithsonian Institution. The hotel is also within 2 blocks of an extensive restaurant district.

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 cosponsors 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), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 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 control research and practice.

The 2013 ACC will feature several kinds of presentations including contributed and invited papers, invited sessions, tutorial sessions, and special sessions along with workshops and exhibits. The conference will also feature theme tracks in sustainability, societal challenges for control, and smart healthcare systems.

In addition to the high-quality technical program that the 2013 ACC Organizing Committee is working hard to ensure, the traditional conference banquet will be transformed to an evening (see menu) at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) on June 18, 2013. ACC attendees and their guests will have exclusive use of the museum for the evening, including free screenings of shows in NASM's IMAX Theater and Planetarium.

The ACC 2013 Operating Committee invites the worldwide participation of all those interested in the theory and practice of control systems.



General Chair
Lucy Pao
University of Colorado Boulder
[email protected]

Program Chair
Daniel Abramovitch
Agilent Laboratories
[email protected]


ACC 2013 Submission and Registration Policies
  • All papers submitted to ACC 2013, 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 2013 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.


PaperPlaza
Conference Submission Site

Conference Registration Site
Hotel Reservation Site


Key Dates
Draft Manuscripts:
Due September 17, 2012 (closed)

Nomination for
Best Student Paper Award:
Nov 2, 2012 (closed)

Acceptance/Rejection Notice:
by January 31, 2013

Final Manuscript Submission:
due March 15, 2013
(closed)





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Contacts for Sponsors:

Haitham Hindi
[email protected]
(Vice Chair for Industry & Applications)

Sean Andersson
[email protected]
(Exhibits Chair)

Lucy Pao
[email protected]
(General Chair)