Submissions should be made by authors online by registering with www.sciforum.net, and using the "New Submission" function once logged into the system.
Note: Institutional email address is requested especially for the corresponding author. Please submit the abstract with the institutional email address, the submissions with the email addresses like gmail.com, 163.com, hotmail.com, qq.com etc. will not be reviewed.
- Scholars interested in participating in the conference can submit their abstract (about 200–300 words) online on this website until 26 July 2022 02 September 2022.
- The Conference Committee will notify the acceptance of the abstract by 16 August 2022 03 September 2022.
- In case of acceptance, authors will be asked to submit their manuscript (short proceedings paper, 3-6 pages) before 30 September 2022. Optionally, authors of accepted abstracts will be able to submit a poster, a slides presentation (in PDF) and/or a short video presentation (max. 3-5minutes) as supporting material of the paper. Authors will receive a notification about the acceptance of their papers by 20 October 2022.
Note: Before publication, the manuscripts and/or supplementary files will be checked by using the powerful text comparison tool: iThenticate. This procedure aims to prevent scholarly and professional plagiarism.
Articles with a high repetition rate and lack of novelty will not be accepted in the conference proceedings. - The manuscripts and presentations will be available on sciforum.net for discussion and rating during the time of the conference, from 1–15 November 2022.
- The accepted proceedings papers will probably be published as one dedicated volume in MDPI Engineering Proceedings journal (ISSN 2673-4591). Publication of proceedings paper is free of charge.
- The open access journal Sensors (Impact Factor 3.847) will publish a dedicated conference Special Issue. Conference participants are encouraged to submit a full paper to the dedicated Special Issue and will receive a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charges (APC).
Note: The submission to the Sensors journal is independent of the conference proceedings and will follow the usual process of the journal, including peer-review, APC, etc.
Proceedings papers must be prepared in MS Word using the Engineering Proceedings template (see below) and should be converted to PDF format before submission. The manuscript should count at least 3 pages (incl. figures, tables and references) and should not exceed 6 pages. Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal website and ensure that your manuscript submission adheres to these guidelines.
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must have the following organization:
- Title
- Full author names
- Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results and Discussion
- Conclusions
- (Acknowledgements)
- References
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the manuscript. Slides can be prepared the same way as for any traditional conference. They should be converted to PDF format before submission.
Authors are requested to submit video presentations accompany with extended submissions. Video should be no longer than 3-5 minutes and prepared with one of the following formats: .mp4 / .webm / .ogg (max size: 250Mb). It should be submitted with the full manuscript before13 September 2022 30 September 2022 (full submission deadline).
The accepted submissions will be shown on the conference submission page of ECSA-9 which will be open after the conference starts. Here is an example of ECSA-8: https://ecsa-8.sciforum.net/#submissions.
Besides, authors that submitted presentations will have the chance to be invited to hold a presentation in the Live Session (15 mins). The live streaming platform we are using is Zoom, click here to check the recordings of the live sessions of ECSA-8. This is a unique way of presenting your paper and discussing it with peers from all over the world.
Note: Exhibitors who attend/register for the Webinar are considered to agree that their images and presentation content will be publicly released.
Posters will be available on this conference website during and after the event. Like papers presented on the conference, participants will be able to ask questions and make comments about the posters. Posters can be presented without an accompanying proceedings paper.
After acceptance, please upload a copy of the proceedings/abstract as a PDF and word, in the corresponding fields, and upload the Poster PDF in the field "Presentation PDF (optional)".
1)The poster should be in PDF format
2)The minimum size for images is 148 mm × 210 mm (horizontal × vertical) at 300 dpi.
3)The content of the poster should be a comprehensive presentation of your accepted submission.
4) No copyright issues with any elements in the poster.
For detailed instructions on how to submit a poster, please contact us at ecsa@mdpi.com.
All authors must disclose all relationships or interests that could inappropriately influence or bias their work. This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflict of interest." Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under "Acknowledgments" section.
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe that authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting a communication paper to this conference, you retain the copyright of your paper, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this paper online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your paper to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher (if required by that publisher).