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Welcome to PaperPlaza, the IEEE Control Systems Society's Conference/Journal/Award Management System

Login NOT required: During initial submission cycle you "do not" need to login to the system to submit a paper, session proposal, or other contribution . To submit a paper to the conferences listed below, you may follow the "Submit a contribution" link.
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Journals and Upcoming Conferences
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IEEE OJCSYS		IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems To submit a paper to IEEE OJCSYS, log in to access your workspace. To submit a paper to a conference, follow the link "Submit a contribution" for the conference.	Log in If you do not have a PIN then register one first
IEEE TCST		IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology To submit a paper to IEEE TCST, log in to access your workspace. To submit a paper to a conference, follow the link "Submit a contribution" for the conference.	Log in If you do not have a PIN then register one first
IEEE L-CSS		IEEE Control Systems Letters To submit a paper to IEEE L-CSS, log in to access your workspace. To submit a paper to a conference, follow the link "Submit a contribution" for the conference.	Log in If you do not have a PIN then register one first
IEEE TCNS		IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems To submit a paper to IEEE TCNS, log in to access your workspace. To submit a paper to a conference, follow the link "Submit a contribution" for the conference.	Log in If you do not have a PIN then register one first
IEEE-CSM		IEEE Control Systems Magazine To submit a paper to IEEE-CSM, log in to access your workspace. To submit a paper to a conference, follow the link "Submit a contribution" for the conference.	Log in If you do not have a PIN then register one first
IEEE-TAC		IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control To submit a paper to IEEE-TAC, log in to access your workspace. To submit a paper to a conference, follow the link "Submit a contribution" for the conference.	Log in If you do not have a PIN then register one first
Conferences in 2026
ACC 2026		2026 American Control Conference (ACC). May 26-29, 2026, New Orleans, LA, USA	Submit a contribution to ACC 2026 ACC 2026 online program now available Register for ACC 2026 My Program for ACC 2026 Contact the ACC 2026 organizers Log in
	Last updated July 25, 2025. Submission site is open
CCTA 2026		2026 10th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA). August 12-14, 2026, Vancouver, Canada	Submit a contribution to CCTA 2026 Register for CCTA 2026 Contact the CCTA 2026 organizers Log in
	Last updated July 14, 2024. Submission deadline for full papers: Feb 8, 2026 April 16, 2026 Initial submission deadline change: TCST presentation April 25, 2026
CDC 2026		2026 65th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). December 15-18, 2026, Honolulu, HI, USA	Submit a contribution to CDC 2026 Contact the CDC 2026 organizers Log in
	Last updated April 10, 2026. The submission deadline is over. The review process is under progress.
AE Nominations 2026		IEEE Control Systems Society, 2026 Editorial Nominations. Not applicable, Honolulu, HI, USA	Submit a nomination to AE Nominations 2026 Log in
	Last updated December 12, 2025. Site is opened for AE nominations for 2026. If you are looking to nominate someone for a CSS Award, please use the companion site for award nominations.
Awards Nominations 2026		IEEE Control Systems Society, 2026 Awards Nominations. Not applicable, Honolulu, HI, USA	Submit a nomination to Awards Nominations 2026 Log in
	Last updated January 11, 2026. Site is opened for CSS award nominations for 2026. If you are looking to nominate someone to serve as an associate editor for a CSS journal, please use the companion site for AE nominations.

PIN
Every participant in a conference served by this site, in any capacity, must maintain a single PIN and password. The same PIN must be used for all conferences

Follow the link PIN to register a PIN, to check and update your personal information, or to retrieve your password. You may also look up your co-authors' PINs or register PINs for them
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Each of our subdomains has its own people database. PINs are therefore only valid on the subdomain where they have been registered.

Pdf Compliance and On-Line Pdf Test
All papers submitted to conferences supported by this site need to be prepared as compliant pdf files

Follow the link Support for MS Word templates and LaTeX style files, and for information about the correct settings to convert your MS Word or LaTeX file to compliant pdf
Use the on-line pdf test to validate your pdf file before trying to upload it

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PaperPlaza: The IEEE Control Systems Society Conference, Journals, Award Management System