About ICSTCC 2025

The Organizing Committee has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in the 29th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing, which will be held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on October 9-11, 2025.

ICSTCC 2025 is organized by:

ICSTCC 2025 aims to provide a unique, multidisciplinary forum, for scientists of academia and industry to discuss the state of the art and the new trends in system theory, control and computer engineering, and to present recent research results and prospects for development in this rapidly evolving area.

The conference joins four previous scientific meetings hosted by University of Craiova (SINTES - International Conference on System Theory and Control), "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iaşi (SACCS - International Symposium on Automatic Control and Computer Science), "Dunărea de Jos" University of Galaţi, (SIMSIS - International Symposium on Modelling, Simulation and Identification Systems), and Politehnica University of Timișoara (CONTI – International Conference on Technical Informatics).

As well as the previous editions, ICSTCC 2025 will be technically co-sponsored by IEEE Control Systems Society and the Proceedings will be submitted to IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Moreover, the Proceedings of the 2013 to 2022 editions are indexed in Clarivate Analytics Web of Science.

ICSTCC 2025 will feature several kinds of presentations including invited talks, contributed papers, special sessions and contributions from industry. The outcome of ICSTCC 2025 is hoped to be an inclusive event, a comprehensive view and a better understanding of such leading research areas: automation, control systems, robotics, computers, electronics and electrical engineering.

The conference will be held in Cluj-Napoca, the main city in Transylvania. With its rich historical and cultural heritage, Cluj-Napoca is an intellectual center with an active society, renowned universities, museums, theatres and eye-catching architecture.

Statue of king Matthias Corvinus
View from the Cluj Romanian National Theatre: statue of revolutionary lawyer Avram Iancu, and the Dormition of the Theotokos Orthodox Cathedral
View of the Cluj Arena stadium

Cluj is an important academic, industrial and commercial center. It is a dynamic multicultural and diverse city with a population of around 350000 inhabitants and 120000 students.

Due to its location (equal distance between two East-European capitals, Bucharest and Budapest) and its economic situation, Cluj-Napoca is easy to reach by different means of transport: plane, car, bus or train.

Important dates

Event  |  Deadline
Invited session proposals  |  April 25, 2025
Paper submission  |  April 30, 2025
Notification of acceptance  |  June 30, 2025
Camera-ready papers  |  July 28, 2025
Early registration  |  July 28, 2025

Registration fees

Early registration is until the 28th of July, 2025.

Fee type
IEEE Members
Early registration 400 EUR
Late/on-site registration 425 EUR
IEEE Non-members
Early registration 450 EUR
Late/on-site registration 475 EUR
Student
Early registration 275 EUR
Late/on-site registration 300 EUR
Accompanying person
Early registration 250 EUR
Late/on-site registration 275 EUR

A registration fee covers: attendance at all sessions, conference materials, coffee breaks, lunches on the days of the conference, welcome reception and gala dinner. It also includes an electronic copy of the conference proceedings.

For each accepted paper, the author who will attend the conference and present the paper must register when uploading the final form.
Regular registrants are allowed to upload two papers, to be presented by the same attendant; however, for the second paper a supplementary fee of 125 EUR must be paid. For each paper, maximum eight pages A4 in double column format are allowed; however, each page in excess of six will incur a charge of 50 EUR.

Student registration fees are accepted only for papers whose first author is a student. Student registrants are allowed to upload only one paper.


 

Inclusion in IEEE Xplore

Accepted papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Moreover, the Proceedings of the 2013 to 2022 editions are indexed in Clarivate Analytics Web of Science.

The IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference, also from IEEE Xplore® Digital Library, if the paper is not presented by the author at the conference.

International program committee


General Chair

Vlad Mureșan

Vlad MUREȘAN
Romania

 

Program Chair

Elena Valcher

Maria Elena VALCHER
Italy

 

Program Co-Chairs

Zsófia Lendek

Zsófia LENDEK
Romania

 

Elvira Popescu

Elvira POPESCU
Romania

 

 

CSS Representative

Sorin Olaru

Sorin OLARU
France

 

Vice Chairs
Vasile Manta

Vasile MANTA
Romania

 

Marian Barbu

Marian BARBU
Romania

 

Marius Marcu

Marius MARCU
Romania

 

Ioan Săcală

Ioan SACALA
Romania

 

Dan Selișteanu

Dan SELISTEANU
Romania

Program Committee

Andrzej BARTOSZEWICZ
Poland

Ming CAO
Netherlands

Maria Letizia CORRADINI
Italy

Ioan DUMITRACHE
Romania

Antonella FERRARA
Italy

Giulia GIORDANO
Italy

Alexandra GRANCHAROVA
Bulgaria

Morten HOVD
Norway

Laura MENINI
Italy

Paolo MERCORELLI
Germany

Ion NECOARĂ
Romania

Marcin PAPRZYCKI
Poland

Florin POP
Romania

Dumitru POPESCU
Romania

Radu Emil PRECUP
Romania

Sophie TARBOURIECH
France

Ramon VILANOVA
Spain

Antonio VISIOLI
Italy

Conference Editorial Board

Costin BĂDICĂ
Romania

Gildas BESANCON
France

Andrei-Constantin BRAITOR
France

Simona CARAIMAN
Romania

Ciprian-Bogdan CHIRILĂ
Romania

Eva DULF
Romania

Adrian FLOREA
Romania

Marco FORGIONE
Switzerland

Martin GUAY
Canada

Raffaele IERVOLINO
Italy

Malinka IVANOVA
Bulgaria

Jérémie KREISS
France

Rita KUO
USA

Mircea LAZĂR
Netherlands

Mirko LEOMANNI
Italy

Florin LEON
Romania

Mohamed Adlene MAGHENEM
France

Mihaela-Hanako MATCOVSCHI
Romania

Nicola MIMMO
Italy

Jun MOON
Korea

Michele PAGONE
Italy

Octavian PĂSTRĂVANU
Romania

Daniele PROVERBIO
Italy

Vicenç PUIG
Spain

Dan SELIȘTEANU
Romania

Olivier SENAME
France

Florin STOICAN
Romania

Tong WU
China

Feng XU
China

Jianan YANG
China

Bala Constantin ZAMFIRESCU
Romania

Bin ZHU
China

Lorenzo ZINO
Italy

Local Organizing Committee (RO)

Chair

Honoriu Vălean

Honoriu VĂLEAN

 

Finance Chair

Mihail Abrudean

Mihail ABRUDEAN

 

Publicity Chair

Iulia Ștefan

Iulia ȘTEFAN

 

Finance Co-Chairs

Teodora SANISLAV

Alexandru LAZAREC

 

Organizers

Liviu Cristian MICLEA

Teodora SANISLAV

Szilárd ENYEDI

Valentin SITA

Ovidiu STAN

Dan GOȚA

Gheorghe SEBESTYEN

Roxana MOTORGA

Alexandra FANCA

Constantin CĂRUNTU

Răzvan ȘOLEA

Ciprian-Bogdan CHIRILĂ

Ciprian LUPU

Mădălin MĂMULEANU

 

Reaching Cluj Napoca

Due to its location (equal distance between two East-European capitals, Bucharest and Budapest) and its economic situation, Cluj-Napoca is easy to reach by different means of transport:


By plane

Cluj-Napoca International Airport, located at 8 km from the city center, offers direct, regular flights to many domestic and international destinations and returns.

Cluj-Napoca International Airport is linked with the city center:

Other options for those who do not have direct flights to/from Cluj-Napoca International Airport are offered by the Bucharest and Budapest international airports, the links between these European capitals and Cluj-Napoca being made by plane, by train, by car or by bus.


By train

Cluj-Napoca railway station, located close to the city center, offers direct train connections with several European capitals. CFR webpage.


By car and long distance bus

Cluj-Napoca is linked with the capital Bucharest through the following main routes:

Cluj-Napoca is linked with Budapest through European route E60 (467 km).

There are several parking lots in Cluj operated by the city hall, a city-owned and several privately-owned public parking lots near the airport, and there is a new, city hall operated Park & Ride at the airport. The conference venue (Doubletree Hilton) has a limited number of parking spaces, for patrons staying there.

Cluj-Napoca "BETA" long distance bus station, located near the railway station, offers direct bus connections with Bucharest and Budapest.

BlaBlaCar, Flixbus and other long distance ride sharing services are also available.


Lodging

We do not have exclusive hotel offers for this edition, but there are plenty of accomodation possibilities around the conference site. Please note that we did not verify these places, but they should be decent in the area. As always, check their reviews on sites like Tripadvisor, Booking or similar. AirBNB is also available.


Venue


Visa Information

Travel advice provided by the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

General information regarding the Romanian visa and conditions to entry on the territory of Romania.

Find out if you need a visa to enter Romania.

In case that you need a visa to enter Romania as an author or co-author of an ICSTCC 2025 paper, please follow the below procedure to obtain an official letter of acceptance for your paper. Note that such a letter does NOT imply covering of the fees, accommodation, travel expenses or other costs incurred by conference attendance.

Procedure for obtaining an official letter of acceptance:


Topics

• Adaptive and robust control

• Aerospace systems

• Agents-based systems

• Algebraic/geometric methods

• Automata/Discrete-event systems

• Automotive control

• Autonomous systems

• Biological/biomedical/biomolecular systems

• Boolean control networks and logic networks

• Chemical process control

• Cloud computing

• Communication networks

• Compartmental and Positive systems

• Computational methods

• Computer vision

• Constrained control

• Control applications

• Control over communications

• Cooperative control

• Cyber security

• Data-driven control

• Decentralized/distributed control

• Delay systems

• Differential-algebraic systems

• Distributed systems

• Embedded systems

• Energy/Power systems

• Engineering education

• Estimation/Filtering

• Evolutionary electronics

• Extremum seeking

• Fault detection/identification

• Fault tolerant systems

• Feedback linearization

• Fuzzy systems/logic

• Game theory

• Hierarchical/supervisory control

• Human-Computer Interaction

• Hybrid/Switched systems

• Identification

• Information theory and control

• Instrumentation

• Intelligent systems

• Iterative learning control Kalman filtering

• LMIs

• Large-scale systems

• Linear parameter-varying systems

• Linear systems

• Lyapunov methods

• Machine learning/Reinforcement learning

• Manufacturing systems and automation

• Markov processes

• Mean field games

• Mechatronics

• Model/Controller reduction

• Network analysis and control

• Neural networks

• Nonholonomic systems

• Nonlinear output feedback

• Nonlinear systems identification

• Numerical algorithms

• Observers

• Optimal control and optimization

• PID control

• Petri nets

• Power electronics/generation

• Predictive control

• Process Control

• Quantized systems

• Quantum information and control

• Randomized algorithms

• Robotics

• Sampled-data control

• Sensor networks

• Signal processing

• Smart cities/houses/grids

• Software methods and tools

• Stability of linear systems

• Stability of nonlinear/hybrid systems

• Statistical learning

• Stochastic systems

• Subspace methods

• Traffic control

• Uncertain systems

• Variable-structure/sliding-mode control

• Variational methods

Paper submission

Full papers should be submitted using the PaperCept Conference Management System. All materials must be written in English. Submitted papers will undergo a peer review process, coordinated by the International Program Committee.

Papers submitted for presentation should contain original research, not published or being considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be tested for similarity and overlap with prior published material using the iThenticate tool. The results will be made available to the IPC for evaluation. Possible violations of the IEEE ethics rules in publishing will be investigated by a dedicated committee.

The corresponding author of each paper will be notified of the result by e-mail. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, provided that at least one of the authors attended the conference and presented the paper. As part of the submission procedures, authors of accepted papers must send a signed Copyright Form for each paper. In the absence of such a form, the paper cannot be published.

The final form of the papers must meet IEEE PDF compliance requirements. Maximum six pages A4 in double column format are allowed (inclusive of all figures, tables, and bibliography). Authors may upload longer manuscripts up to a maximum of eight pages. However, each page in excess of six will incur a charge of 50 EUR. You will find the required format, templates and other help within the guidelines for manuscripts.

The use of content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in an article (including but not limited to text, figures, images, and code) shall be disclosed in the acknowledgments section of any article submitted to ICSTCC 2025. The AI system used shall be identified, and specific sections of the article that use AI-generated content shall be identified and accompanied by a brief explanation regarding the level at which the AI system was used to generate the content.

Publication and indexing

Accepted papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore and Clarivate Web of Science (the Proceedings of the 2013 to 2022 editions are indexed in Clarivate Analytics Web of Science).

ICSTCC reserves the right to remove from any type of publication the papers that have not been presented at the conference.