ETHICS STATEMENT
Research reported at WSTEM workshop should avoid harm, be honest and trustworthy, fair and non-discriminatory, and respect privacy and intellectual property.
Where relevant, authors can include in the main body of their paper, or on the reference page, a short ethics statement that addresses ethical issues regarding the research being reported and the broader ethical impact of the work.
Reviewers will be asked to flag possible violations of relevant ethical principles. Such flagged submissions will be reviewed by a senior member of the programme committee. Authors may be required to revise their paper to include a discussion of possible ethical concerns and their mitigation.
PROCEEDINGS
We are pleased to inform you that the workshop proceedings will be published as part of the ICT Innovations.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Submitted papers must be written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS/CCIS conference proceedings guidelines. Papers should be limited to 15 pages. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, for Overleaf, LaTeX or Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers.
Submit through ICT Innovations link.
ICT innovations conference submissions are subject to a single-blind peer reviewed process by the conference’s international Program Committee. Each paper is assigned to at least three carefully selected peers in the field matching the topic.
The reviews from the peers help the Program Chairs select which papers to accept as full papers, short papers, posters or to reject. Additionally, the reviews will help the authors of papers improve their papers.
Moreover, the reviews will be a valuable asset for the Program Chairs in the decision of Best Paper Award.
In order to address plagiarism as one of the most prevalent problems in scholarly publishing, Springer will check all accepted full papers for plagiarism before publications using the IThenticate platform. It is the most trusted plagiarism checker by the world’s top researchers, publishers, and scholars.
The plagiarism reports will be sent to the corresponding authors for modifications in order to meet the required level of originality for publication.