Camera-Ready submission steps

• Authors are kindly asked to submit original, not published or being considered elsewhere full papers based on Springer LNBIP guidelines.
• Authors should not add their details (names, affiliation, email etc) in the document they submit for review.
• All papers should be submitted via the EasyAcademia conference management system. Submit your Paper.
• Papers must be submitted as a single PDF document.
• The working language is English.
• Papers should not exceed 5,000 words and the recommended length is maximum 14 pages.
• Papers go through a ‘double-blind review’ process that evaluates their significance, originality, contribution and clarity.
• Upon acceptance please make sure that at least one author registers to secure a slot for their presentation in the conference program.
• When preparing the camera-ready version of a paper, authors should add their details (names, affiliation, email etc) on the first page of the paper and indicate which is the corresponding author.
• Along with the camera-ready version of their paper, authors should fill, sign and submit the copyright form.
• Submit the following as a ZIP file for the Camera-Ready Copy (CRC) version using the Online Submission System by 10 November 2019: Paper final PDF, Paper source (Word or LaTeX), Copyright form.
• All accepted papers will be published in a LNBIP series volume and are made available to the following indexing services:
  • ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Science (CPCI-S), included in ISI Web of Science
  • EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases)
  • ACM Digital Library
  • DBLP
  • Google Scholar
  • IO-Port
  • MathSciNet
  • Scopus 
  • Zentralblatt MATH

Important Dates

• Electronic Submission Deadline: 30 September, 2019 20 October, 2019
• Notification of Acceptance to Authors: 30 October, 2019
• Camera Ready Copy: 15 November, 2019 New deadline
• Early-bird Registration: 15 November, 2019 New deadline
• Author Registration Deadline: 15 November, 2019 New deadline

Submission steps

• Create an “EasyAcademia” account through www.easyacademia.org
• Activate your account by clicking on the activation link sent to your email.
  Note: Please check your Spam folder if you have not received the email within a few minutes.
• Log into www.easyacademia.org/emcis2019, using the login details you provided at the beginning.
• Click on Start a new submission on the top right to enter the submission process.
• Select an appropriate track from the list.
• Enter the appropriate information in the Title step.
• Enter your Abstract text (max length: 400 words) in the following step.
• Under Authors please input details for each author of the paper. At least one author must be marked for each type of role available (presenter, corresponding).
  Note: Only authors marked as correspondents (and the presenter) will receive updates and information regarding the submission.
• Under Summary you may check the details of the submission. If you wish to go back to a section in order to change details, just click on the appropriate step on the left.
• If you are happy with the summary information, please click on Submit Now to finalize the process. A notification e-mail will be sent to the correspondents.

Notes for Presenters:

• Presentation slots are 20 minutes long (including 5 minutes for questions and answers).
• Digital projectors and laptops equipped with Microsoft Office will be made available for use.
• Presenters are expected to arrive with a copy of their presentation on a USB key in Microsoft PowerPoint format.

Notes for Track Chairs:

• Track chairs are responsible for introducing each presenter and make sure they keep within the 15+5 minutes time limit.
• Track chairs should facilitate discussion and prompt for feedback where possible.