6th IEEE Bangalore humanitarian Technology conference

• Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers. They must represent original unpublished research that is NOT currently under review for any other conference or journal.

• Manuscripts can be submitted to any of the following three tracks:

  • Regular track: must be between six and eight (6-8) pages; single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5×11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references.

  • Industry track: must be between four and six (4-6) pages; single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5×11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references.

  • Position paper/Work in Progress track: must be exactly four (4) pages; single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5×11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references.

• The IEEE conference style templates for MS Word and LaTeX provided by IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing are available for download. See the latest versions here.  Papers not following the style guidelines may be rejected without review.

• Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file.

• All manuscripts must be submitted through the following Submission link: Click Here (select the relevant track)

  • Acknowledgment: The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.

• Submitted manuscripts will undergo mandatory plagiarism screening as per IEEE guidelines. Papers violating ethics will be desk-rejected and the parent organizations of all the authors informed.

• All submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee under a double-blind review process

  • Submitted papers should NOT list any author names, affiliations or any other personally identifiable information.   

  • As an author, you should not identify yourself or your organization in the paper, either explicitly or by implication (e.g., through the references or acknowledgments). References to your own work should be in the third-person.

  • Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, potential impact, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference scope. 

• The author list and order at the time of submission is considered final – no co-authors can be added or removed or re-ordered after the submission deadline or upon acceptance (no exceptions).

• Submitted manuscripts that DO NOT follow these guidelines (i.e., do not meet the size, formatting, and anonymization requirements ) will be rejected without review.

• Paper may be accepted for the track it is submitted in, or may be accepted as a WIP/Poster paper in case it does not meet the requisite depth. In case of the latter, authors will have 1 week to submit a shorter version of the paper to appear in the proceedings.

• Upon paper acceptance, at least one author must register for the conference and present the paper. Every accepted paper must have an individual author registration.

• As per IEEE policy, authors of every published paper needs to sign a copyright transfer agreement. The instructions for the copyright agreement will be shared with the author after acceptance of the paper.

• All accepted and presented papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore, subject to meeting IEEE Xplore's scope and quality requirements.

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