Author Information
Instructions for Revised Paper Submission
(For the papers rendered with decision: ‘Major Revision’ or ‘Minor Revision’)
Rolling acceptance Phase 4 - results December 04, 2023
1. The authors can see the review comments in Microsoft CMT. Please go through the review comments carefully, and prepare a separate detailed ‘Author Compliance’ using the template given: Click here to download the Authors' Compliance Template. Please avoid loose compliance sentences like ... "corrections has been done"'. Please be as specific as possible while addressing the review comments.
2. Please mark the changes in the revised manuscript as per the review comments with a different color (blue) so that these can be easily identified in the revised manuscript.
3. The allowed limit of overall similarity is 25% (excluding reference/bibliography), with maximum of 7% with a single paper. The authors can download the similarity check report (Plagiarism Check) of their papers from the Microsoft CMT portal. Please ensure that the level of similarity is below the allowable limits specified. Otherwise, the papers may be rejected even after complying with the review comments.
4. If the manuscript does not match with the IEEE Conference template, the PDFeXpress check may fail afterwards while preparing the camera-ready manuscript. Please prepare the revision strictly adhering to the IEEE Template for conference publications. Please download the template from the link: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
5. When the revised manuscript and Authors' Compliance are ready, please convert them to PDF and combine them in a single PDF (revised manuscript first, followed by Author’s Compliance). The file must be named as “CIEC24_xxx”, where ‘xxx’ refer to the submission ID. For example, if the submission/paper ID is 19, the name of the file will be “CIEC24_019”.
6. This single PDF file should be uploaded to replace the original (initial) submission in the Microsoft CMT portal.
7. Please submit the combined document within the due date as mentioned beside the paper ID mentioned in the List of Provisionally Accepted Papers. [Major Revision: Dec. 10, Minor Revision: Dec. 07, 2023.]
8. The revised manuscript should contain all author names and their affiliations as per IEEE template specifications.
Next course of action (Fourth phase review results)
1. All the revisions will be evaluated by experts whether the review comments are properly addressed in Authors’ Compliance and revised manuscript.
2. A lsit of final decsision for Phase 4 will be published on conference website.
3. This list will also contain the Date of Registration deadline against each ‘finally accepted’ papers. Authors of accepted papers are requesetd to register within the due date to enable us to maintain the timeline of activities.
4. At least one author of each paper with ‘Final Acceptance’ needs to transfer the registration fees and submit a handwritten filled Registration Form.
Timeline of Activities for Phase 4 Rolling Acceptance Results published on Dec. 04, 2023
For papers directly accepted, the registration deadline is 08/12/2023.
General Instructions for initial Paper Submission:
All submissions should be blind. The author names, affiliations, emails and other details in the 'author panel' below the paper title should be kept blank.
Manuscript length must be length 4-6 pages as per IEEE Conference format. Please download the template from the link: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Manuscripts less than either 4 pages or greater than 6 pages will be rejected without review.
The submission of manuscripts should be done in PDF format only (submission file size is within 10 MB), through Microsoft Conference Management Toolkit (CMT), provided in homepage.
The authors need to choose a track while submitting a manuscript. However, the Technical Program Committee reserves the right to shift the paper to some other track based on the relevance and content of the research.
Once a manuscript is submitted in CMT, it is immediately sent to review. Hence, the authors are requested only to submit the final version. Editing and updating the manuscript after submission will create problem or unnecssary delay in review process.
All submissions will undergo a double-blind review. The criteria for acceptance will be based on quality, originality, technical content, and relevance to the theme of the conference.
This conference will adopt flexible deadline to ensure maximum participation. 'Rolling acceptance' will be provided in phases, and a list containing 'Papers Accepted' , 'Papers with Major Revision', 'Papers with Minor Revision', and 'Papers Rejected' will be published in each phase. The deadlines for revision submission, final acceptance and registration deadlines for each phases will be communicated to authors through email and also in the conference website.
In case of early 'final acceptance', the authors of the accepted papers need to register early, as specified in the communication email.
At least one author of each accpted paper need to register under 'Authors' category to present the work in the conference program. The IEEE members need to submit the proof of active membership if discount is climed in author registration.
For more than one accepted paper from same author, a discount of 50% on the registration fees will be offered for each additional registration, provided the same author will register in all papers.
Participation certificate will be only awarded to the registered author. In case the registered author is unable to present, any co-author, with due permission from the organisers can present the paper.
Only presented papers at the conference venue will be sent to IEEE for inclusion in IEEEXplore Digital Library. IEEE 'No Show' policy will be applicable to the papers, if the paper is not presented at the conference venue.
Registration fees is non-refundable.
Note that there is no 'late registration' category for authors. All authors of accepted papers need to register within the due date of registration in order to include his/her manuscript in the conference proceedings.
The paper submission process is closed.