It is my honor and pleasure to invite you to attend CDC 2019 in Nice, France. Nice, with its millennial history, has always been a warm and welcoming city. Besides being a great tourist destination on the Mediterranean sea, it is also a dynamic city, with several hi-tech companies and R&D centers, a fantastic place for congresses and conventions, as well as a great cultural place.

Together with the Organizing Committee, we are giving our best to ensure a rich and diverse program. We wish to have the pleasure to meet you here in 2019.

Carlos Canudas-de-Wit, General Chair

The 58^th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control will be held Wednesday through Friday, December 11-13, 2019 at the Palais des Congrès et des Expositions Nice Acropolis, Nice, France. The conference will be preceded by technical workshops on Tuesday, December 10, 2019.

The CDC is recognized as the premier scientific and engineering conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of systems and control. The CDC annually brings together an international community of researchers and practitioners in the field of automatic control to discuss new research results, perspectives on future developments, and innovative applications relevant to decision making, automatic control, and related areas.

The 58^th CDC will feature contributed and invited papers, as well as tutorial sessions and workshops.

The IEEE CDC is hosted by the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) in cooperation with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and the Japanese Society for Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE).

Nice is the Capital of the Côte d'Azur, enjoying more than 300 days of sunshine per year. Its internationally-renowned history and culture, the shifting shimmer of its sea, its towering mountain peaks, make it a leading tourism destination with more than 5 million visitors. Its international airport serves 100 destinations worldwide.

The Palais des Congrès et des Expositions Nice Acropolis was elected "Best Congress and Convention Center Europe" for three consecutive years. It is conveniently located in the city center. It features 5 auditoriums from 250 to 2500 places and 50 meeting rooms.