Paper Submission

Submission guidelines

https://www.openconf.org/ismsc2018/track1/openconf.php

    • Track 2: Computer Research and Information Systems

https://www.openconf.org/ismsc2018/track2/openconf.php

NOTE:

For submission process, please refer to this IJET UAE template.


  • The manuscript should be original and has not been previously published or under review by other journals. Each manuscript must be checked for plagiarism using software, which is full responsibility of authors (Turnitin similarity index not more than 20%)
  • All submitted paper will be double blind reviewed by experts in the field by considering the originality, clarity of presentation and significance to the track.
  • Authors are encouraged to list two or three potential reviewers with the appropriate expertise to review the paper. Please register the reviewers' details at OpenConfTrack1 with keycode:T1_rev for track 1: Mathematical Sciences or click at OpenConfTrack2 with keycode:T2_rev for track 2: Computer Research and Information Systems. Email also to ismsc2018@uitm.edu.my with information of the paper ID, paper title and the list of reviewers. The proposed reviewers should be from different institutions to the authors. The committee however, should has the rights to select other reviewers for the paper if the suggested reviewers’ expertise is not match with the field areas of the paper.

Terms and Conditions

Thank you for your interest in submitting a paper to iSMSC 2018. Please review the terms & conditions carefully to ensure that you fully understand the when you register your paper. These terms are binding once you complete your registration.

1.0 Submission Quality

As International Journal of Engineering and Technology (IJET UAE) ISSN 2227-524X with a good indexing track record with SCOPUS respectively, the publishers stipulate some conditions on authors to publish with them. Authors should always ensure that these areas are fulfilled in order for their work to be published in the journal:

  1. Authors should always ensure that their work has sufficient novelty, is original and previously unpublished, has excellent technical depth and content worthy of publication in the journal, and observe good level of English. If necessary, please ask a native speaker to review your manuscript to ensure that the English used is of the highest quality.
  2. Authors should always ensure that their final manuscript addresses the issues and comments by the reviewers selected by the iSMSC 2018 organizing committee.
  3. Authors should always ensure that their work follows the formatting and referencing guidelines and the publication ethics (IJET UAE).
  4. Authors should always ensure that all the figures and tables in the paper are clearly presented.
  5. Authors will be contacted later to amend their papers if the quality is not yet accepted by the publisher.


The iSMSC 2018 organizing committee is responsible, to the best of our effort, for managing the symposium review process, helping to ensure the quality of English, and collection of final manuscripts to be published in IJET UAE or Multidisciplinary Informatics Journal.

Please note that IJET UAE Editorial Board and the iSMSC 2018 organizing committee reserves all rights to decline your manuscript for publication in IJET UAE if we deem that your manuscript is not of sufficiently high quality for publication, without any refund of the fees paid. This needs to be done in order to protect the rights of other authors, whose work may be declined as well in case IJET UAE decides to reject the entire publication collection submitted by the iSMSC 2018 organizing committee.

For accelerate the publication process, the iSMSC 2018 organizing committee also reserves the right to:

1) submit the manuscript to another ISI/SCOPUS-indexed journal that can publish faster than the UAE

2) request amendments from the author according to the selected journal template in order to help the author to publish the manuscript in another SCOPUS/ISI-indexed journal.

2.0 Symposium Matters

With regard to the iSMSC 2018 conference itself, authors agree to the following on the completion of registration:

  1. Each paper will only cater for registration of one author registration.
  2. In the event of a no-show or publish-only registration, a registered author cannot ask for conference materials to be sent to the author unless the author agrees to certain additional fees to be decided by the organizer.
  3. Authors who register and present their papers will receive one presentation certificate. Additional certificates for attendance will be provided for other authors with a certain additional fee to be decided by the organizer.
  4. Authors agree that the publication of accepted papers may take AT LEAST 6 months in order to be published by IJET UAE or other journal publisher. It can be higher than the mentioned dates (more than 15 months) if the queue for publication is long at the Publisher side. The organizers are responsible only for the submission of accepted and registered papers to the journal.
  5. The conference fees would not be refunded in the event of paper withdrawal.
  6. The organizer and IJET UAE are not responsible to provide online access or printed copies of accepted papers.


3.0 Binding of the Terms & Conditions

Please note that all terms and conditions will be applied automatically upon completion of your registration.


Thank you,


iSMSC 2018 Organizing Committee