Information for Authors

All papers accepted for publication in this session would be included in the Proceedings of WMSCI 2020. WMSCI Proceedings have been indexed in SCOPUS since 2005.

• Submission Template: Download

• There is a minimum limit of 3 pages and a maximum limit of 6 pages for each paper, including all the figures, tables, and references in the above template.

• The text must be in English

• Any paper not submitted in the above template would be rejected

To submit, please email your paper in .pdf format directly to the session organizer, Nirmalya Thakur at thakurna@mail.uc.edu

A special issue of the Journal and a printed book (potentially along with an eBook)

For this invited session, the final version of the papers presented (virtually) at the conference, will also be published in a special issue of the journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (JSCI) which has been indexed by DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), considered a journals’ white list, by the same DOAJ. Consequently, a paper accepted and presented at this invited session will be indexed by SCOPUS (proceedings) and by DOAJ.

If there is no adequate number of papers for a special issue, then the papers will be published in a special session of a regular issue. In any case, there will be no additional charge to the author, because this topic has a financial sponsor.

In the case of the special issue, it will be required from the author of each paper:

1. To change the format two columns (conference proceedings and regular issues of the journal) to one column format which is the one required for special issues and printed books. In this case, the authors will receive the respective guidelines, which will be similar to the one we posted at http://www.iiisci.org/journal/sci/Contents/special-issues-guidelines.pdf. There may be slight changes required by the publisher of printed copies. The will be no additional

2. To assure an adequate final print editing of the final version. We will provide the author with, at least, two options to fulfill this quality assurance, especially related to having corrected grammatical, spelling and mistyping errors.

3. To assure its publication in a multi-author printed books, to be distributed via Amazon, the article should be written, or re-written, for inter-disciplinary communication, i.e. for a multi-disciplinary readership, comparably to the plenary keynote addresses that has always been delivered for a multi-disciplinary audience.

In view of the COVID-19 situation, we have decided to organize this session as a completely virtual session. All presentations will be virtual. Further details about the same would be informed to the authors whose papers are accepted for publication.