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Welcome to the 64th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) |
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On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we warmly (literally!) welcome you to Rio de Janeiro. This is first time in its 64-year history that CDC sets foot in South America, in beautiful Rio -- once the capital of empires, and now a global crossroads where history, culture, and nature converge. In addition to enjoying an outstanding technical program, we hope that you will find some time to explore the many attractions Rio has to offer. CDC is the flagship event of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS). This year we received a total of 2,239 submissions which included invited and contributed papers, 539 papers submitted via the joint IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS) and CDC route, 12 tutorial papers, and 31 journal papers. The latter journal paper category is new to CDC; we enabled journal papers that have never been presented at CDC and were published or accepted during the last year in a CSS journal without a conference outlet to be presented at CDC. The acceptance rate for (invited and contributed) CDC papers settled at 57%, increasing to 59% if one includes papers submitted through the L-CSS route. We are indebted to our Technical Program Committee, the CSS Conference Editorial Board expertly led by Amir Aghdam, and an army of anonymous reviewers for carefully evaluating every single paper. During the three days of the main conference, the technical program will feature 1,328 papers presented in slots of 15 minutes. The shorter slots are a deviation from recent CDC tradition, motivated by the success of shorter talks at ACC and by the need to fit all worthy papers in 3 days without a very large number of parallel sessions. This year, the formation of the technical program was assisted by AI tools. In collaboration with Dr. Hanjun Dai from Precur.AI, we employed an algorithm combining large language models, graph theory, and optimization to support paper-topic organization and session planning — a small but exciting step toward embracing AI in the way our community organizes its flagship conference. CDC will feature three plenary talks and the Bode lecture from a superb cast, with topics ranging from transient control for robotics, AI-human games, reinforcement learning, and methods to handle control system complexity. The day prior to the main conference, CDC will host 12 workshops on exciting topics selected out of 19 workshop proposals. Participants will also be able to enjoy a number of special sessions from our sponsors and various initiatives and a live RoboRacer autonomous racing competition. Through support by CSS and the U.S. National Science Foundation, we will be able to provide 144 fully funded hotel rooms to student authors, welcoming them in the CDC community and cultivating the next generation of control systems researchers. Organizing a CDC is a task that is easily underestimated (all of us did!) and it may sound like a cliché, but it truly takes a village. We are profoundly grateful to the Organizing Committee – Alex, Maria, Julia, Grace, Andreas, Kai, Felipe, Stephano, Marcos, Valter, Lilian, Patricia, and César –, the king of Paperplaza Pradeep Misra, our PCO Alessandra Leitão and her team, Hanjun Dai, and IEEE and CSS for all the support they provided. CDC would not have been possible without them. | ||||
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João Carlos Basilio and Ioannis (Yannis) Ch. Paschalidis
Christoforos Hadjicostis and Na Li |
