Call for Work in Progress Papers

Important Dates

15 August 2024

Full Paper Submission deadline

5 September 2024

Notification deadline

5 October 2024

Camera-ready deadline

Scope

Work-in-progress track is appropriate for late breaking work and work-in-progress. Late breaking work is current work that is very new. Work in progress is emerging work that has not been fully realised or developed, where empirical data may not yet be available, or that has not yet reached a level of maturity expected for other types of submissions. Work-in-progress papers should be 6-8 pages in length including references. Initial submission must be anonymous as the papers follow the double-blind review process. Camera-ready submissions should include the author(s) name and affiliation. Publication of an accepted paper in the proceedings requires that at least one author of the paper registers for and participates in the conference.

Publication

All registered papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer – LNICST series and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library: DLI Conference Proceedings.

Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, such as Web of Science, Compendex, Scopus, DBLP, EU Digital Library, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Inspec, and Zentralblatt MATH.

All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of:

– EAI Endorsed Transactions on e-Learning
– EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies

Additional publication opportunities:

– EAI Transactions series (Open Access)
– EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series
(titles in this series are indexed in Ei Compendex, Web of Science & Scopus)

Paper Submission

Papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy+‘ system, and have to comply with the Springer format (see Author’s kit section).

Work in progress paper length: 6-8 pages

Paper submission

Papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy+‘ system, and have to comply with the Springer format (see Author’s kit section below).

How do I submit a paper in Confy?

  1. Go to Confy+ website

  2. Login or sign up as new user

  3. Select your desired Track

  4. Click the ‘Submit Paper’ link within the track and follow the instructions

Alternatively, go to home page of Confy+ and click on “Open conferences”.

Submission guidelines

– The papers should be in English.
– Previously published work may not be submitted, nor may the work be concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal.
   Such papers will be rejected without review.
– Papers have to be anonymous.
– Double-Blind Review process.
– The paper submissions must follow the Springer formatting guidelines (see Author’s kit section below).
– Read the Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.

Papers must be formatted using the Springer LNICST/ EASICC Authors’ Kit.

Instructions and templates are available from Springer’s LNICST homepage:

– LaTeX2e Proceedings Templates (zip)
– Microsoft Word Proceedings Templates (zip)

Please make sure that your paper adheres to the format as specified in the instructions and templates.

When uploading the camera-ready copy of your paper, please be sure to upload both:

– a PDF copy of your paper formatted according to the above templates, and
– an archive file (e.g. zip, tar.gz) containing the both a PDF copy of your paper and LaTeX or Word source material prepared according to the above guidelines.