Create an account on Sciforum if you do not have one, then click on New Submission on the upper-right corner of the window or click on Submit Abstract on the conference website.

1. Scholars interested in participating in the conference can submit their abstracts (from about 200 to 300 words) online on this website until 26 June 2023 26 July 2023.
2. After submission, your abstracts will be assessed. You will be notified by 24 July 2023 11 August 2023 in a separate email about whether your contribution has been accepted for a poster presentation or an oral presentation via the platform Zoom. If you do not want to give an oral/poster presentation, you can also submit a manuscript (short proceedings paper, 3–6 pages) by 20 September 2023. Authors will receive a notification about the acceptance of their submission by 10 October 2023.
3. The manuscripts and posters will be available on sciforum.net for discussion and rating during the time of the conference on 24–26 October 2023.
4. All submissions will be reviewed using the powerful text comparison tool iThenticate. This procedure aims to prevent scholarly and professional plagiarism. Submissions will then be peer-reviewed by conference committees based on originality/novelty, quality of presentation, scientific soundness, interest to the readers, overall merit and English level. After the conference, all submissions will be published on sciforum.net, and only the proceeding paper (3-6 pages) will be published in the MDPI Engineering Proceedings journal (ISSN 2673-4591 Indexed in Scopus)
   Note: Publication of proceedings paper is free of charge.
   Before publication, the journal will check the plagiarism issue again. Submissions with a lack of novelty will not be published in the journal.
5. All abstracts accepted for presentation will be collected in a book of abstracts, which will be published on the website after the conference.

About Poster Presentation:
Please send your Poster follow the poster instructions:
Note: We only accept live presentations.
Poster:
· Should include the title, authors, contact details and main research findings, as well as tables, figures and graphs where necessary.
· File format: PDF (.pdf).
· Size in pixel: 1,080 width x 1,536 height–portrait orientation.
· Size in cm: 38.1 width x 54.2 height–portrait orientation.
· Font size: ≥16.
Examples of successful submissions can be viewed here at the following links: (1), (2), (3)

About Oral Presentation
The slot for the oral presentation is 15 mins. We would advise that your presentation lasts for a maximum of 10-12 mins to leave at least 3 mins for the Q&A. All presentations must be sent to the conference secretariat before 20 September 2023.
Note: We only accept live presentations.

About Proceedings Paper

Proceedings papers must be prepared in MS Word using the Engineering Proceedings template (Download) and should be converted to PDF format before submission. The manuscript should have at least three pages (incl. figures, tables, and references) and should not exceed six 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 papers 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.

1. Please note the submitting author will receive all correspondence about the abstract. Thus, the submitting author’s details are supposed to be the same as those of the presenting author.
2. The presenting author is required to ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
3. The presenting author must be listed as the first author. If you are considered for the journal Buildings, the author positions can be changed.

Participants of this conference are cordially invited to contribute with a full manuscript to our Special Issue in the Journal Buildings (ISSN: 2075-5309, IF 3.324) with a 20% discount on the APC.

If it is the case, the authors are asked to disclose that their work is an extended version of the IOCBD 2023 conference paper in their cover letter. Expanded and high-quality papers from the conference can be articles if they fulfill the following requirements:

(1) Submitted papers should be extended to the size of conference paper with at least 50% extension of new results. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI standard peer-review procedure. Accepted papers will be published in open-access format in Buildings and collected together on the Special Issue website.

(2) The conference paper should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.