The 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control will be held Monday through Wednesday, December 15-17, 2014 at the J.W. Marriott Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, USA. The conference will be preceded by technical workshops on Sunday, December 14, 2014. 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 53rd 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), the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Japanese Society for Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), and the EUropean Control Association (EUCA).