The conference "IOCI 2022: The 1st International Online Conference on Infrastructures" will accept extended abstracts only.
The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
Please note that abstract submission and conference registration are two separate processes.
To register for the conference, please follow this link.
Submission Information
Submissions should be made by authors online by registering on www.sciforum.net, and using the “New Submission” function once logged into the system.
- Scholars interested in participating in the conference can submit their abstract (about 300–500 words) online on this website until 11 March 2022. Please note that, as part of the submission process, you will be required to type in the main text of your abstract in the system, as well as to provide a Word and PDF version (1 page maximum) following this template. Please kindly follow the instructions included in the template when preparing the file.
- Following assessment by the Chairs, you will be notified by 4 April 2022 whether your contribution has been accepted to the event.
- All accepted abstracts will be available online for discussion during the time of the conference (7–9 June 2022). Moreover, accepted abstracts will also be published as a book of abstracts in MDPI Journal Engineering Proceedings.
- Note that a number of contributions will be selected by the Conference Scientific Committee and offered the opportunity to present their contributions by giving a short talk during the event. Authors selected will be notified by email by 4 April 2022.
- Please note that, in order to finalize the scientific program in due time, at least one registration by any of the authors, denoted as Covering Author, is required to cover the presentation and publication of any accepted abstract. Covering Author registration deadline is 29 April 2022. Your abstract will be withdrawn if your registration is not complete by this date.
Publication Opportunities
The open access journal Infrastructures will publish 4 special issues linked to The 1st International Online Conference on Infrastructures. Session 1. BIM: "Building Information Modelling for Infrastructure Management." Session 2. Digitalization: "Infrastructure Digitalization: Information Models, Smart Sensing and New Technologies towards a Digital Infrastructure." Session 3. Smart Infrastructures: "Smart Infrastructure." Session 4. Materials and Sustainability: "IOCI 2022 Special Issue Session 4: Materials and Sustainability".
All conference attendees wishing to submit a full paper of their work to the journal Infrastructures will receive a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charge. If you have any inquiries, please contact the editorial office directly.
All authors are also encouraged to submit a full version of their papers to the Special Issue "Innovative Solutions for Concrete Applications" with a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charge.
Please note that other institutional discounts cannot be combined with the discount voucher.
Invited and selected speakers will be invited to submit their full version paper to the IOCI 2022 Special Issues in the journal Infrastructures and will have 50% or 100% discount on the APC. Full manuscript submissions will undergo the usual process of each journal, including peer review
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Copyright
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 contribution to this conference, you retain the copyright of it, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this contribution online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means that you can easily submit your contribution to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher (if required by that publisher).