Paper Submission Rules and Guidelines

• We follow double blind review process, therefore each paper submitted for the review should be anonymized. See instructions below.

• All authors must have contributed significantly to the paper at the time of the submission. By submitting to IEEE WCCI 2026, authors acknowledge that they conform to the authorship policy of the IEEE and the submission policy of the IEEE.

• The use of artificial intelligence (AI)-generated text in an article must be disclosed in the acknowledgements section of any paper submitted to an IEEE Conference or Periodical. The sections of the paper that use AI-generated text must have a citation to the AI system used to generate the text.

• No authorship changes will be allowed after acceptance. Please ensure that you are following this guideline to avoid any issues with publication.

• All papers must respect the paper formatting rules (see section on formatting below). Alterations of spacing, font size, and other changes that deviate from the template may result in desk rejection without further review.

• All papers must be original, not previously published elsewhere, and not under review or submitted for review elsewhere whilst under consideration for IEEE WCCI 2026.

• Journal to Conference (J2C) papers must not have been previously presented, under consideration for presentation, or submitted for presentation at other conferences, congresses, symposia or workshop whilst under consideration for presentation at IEEE WCCI 2026.

• J2C papers must have been accepted at IEEE Transactions journals sponsored by CIS and first appeared in IEEEXplore within the past 2 years.

• Papers will be checked for plagiarism. By submitting to IEEE WCCI 2026, you acknowledge that you agree and are bound to the IEEE Plagiarism FAQ. The Program Committee reserves the right to desk-reject a paper if it contains elements that are suspected to be plagiarized. To check for double submission and plagiarism issues, the program chairs reserve the right to (1) share the list of submissions with the PC Chairs of other conferences with overlapping review periods and (2) use external plagiarism detection software.

• You must respect the page limitation for the respective paper type (see limitation in the section below).

• All papers must be submitted through the IEEE WCCI 2026 online submission system (link will be available soon).

• For a paper to be included in the symposium program, in the proceedings and in IEEEXplore, final accepted papers must be submitted by the camera-ready deadline, the corresponding registration fees must be paid by the early registration deadline, and the paper must presented by at least one author at the required time slots at the conference; subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements. For information on the rules for author registration (e.g., how many papers a single author registration can cover, or the type of required registration), please refer to the registration page (available soon).

Page Limitation and Submission Format

All papers must be submitted using the IEEE conference proceedings template with body text in 10pt type. LaTeX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran}.

The page limitations are as follows:

• Full papers: papers of up to 6 pages. A maximum of two extra content pages per full paper is allowed (i.e, up to 8 pages), at an additional charge per extra page as specified in the registration page.

• Journal to Conference (J2C): TBD.

Open Science for Full and Short Papers

We encourage all authors to make their data/code available upon acceptance of full and short papers to increase reproducibility and replicability.

Please add a note in the last paragraph of the introduction of your submitted paper either stating that you will make your data/code available upon acceptance, or with a justification on why you cannot make your data/code available. Please replace this note by a link to the data/code in your camera-ready paper if you are sharing. You may use any online repository that you wish for this purpose. We suggest Zenodo as it produces a permanent link with a DOI.