The 10th IFAC Conference on Networked Systems (NecSys 25) is organized by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).  The conference will take place at Clearwater Bay Campus, HKUST, Hong Kong from June 2 to 5, 2025.

Networked systems and complex dynamical systems are composed of a large number of individual systems interacting physically and/or through a communication network. These large-scale cyber-physical systems arise as natural models in many areas of engineering and sciences, such as sensor networks, autonomous vehicles, power networks, biological networks, social networks, and emergent behavior.

The conference will focus on the most innovative mathematical methods proposed in the last few years for the analysis and design of networked systems. The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers from control, computer science, communication, game theory, social sciences, statistics, mathematics, and other areas to discuss emerging topics in networked systems.

Topics include, but are not limited to

• Multi-agent systems

• Control under communication constraints

• Consensus and gossip algorithms

• Cooperative control/estimation/learning

• Distributed optimization and MPC

• Cyber security in networked control systems

• Event-triggered and self-triggered control

• Wireless sensing and control systems

• Graph-based methods for networked systems

• Cooperation in the presence of adversaries

• Network games

• Applications in engineering, computing, and social sciences

• Decentralized control for large-scale systems

This is an opportunity for world-class experts, scholars, and top talents to gather and exchange the latest ideas, results, and developments in theory and applications. The conference program will highlight keynote speeches, panels and demonstrations related to advanced networked systems technology. The conference will benefit industry players by connecting conference topics with the latest development in the technology industry, and helping Hong Kong become an international innovation center.

Past Events

NecSys’22, 5-7 July 2022, Zurich, Switzerland

NecSys'19, 16-17 September 2019, Chicago, IL, USA

NecSys’18, 27-28 August, 2018, Groningen, The Netherlands

NecSys’16, 8-9 September, 2016, Tokyo, Japan

NecSys’15, 10-11 September, 2015, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

NecSys’13, 25-26 September, 2013, Koblenz, Germany

NecSys’12, 14-15 September, 2012, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

NecSys’10, 13-14 September, 2010, Annecy, France

NecSys’09, 24-26 September, 2009, Venice, Italy