Format
Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.
The maximum length of the papers is 12 pages (6 pages for Doctoral Consortiums), including figures and references.
Instructions for preparing the camera-ready version of your paper
- Papers must be prepared according to the LNNS template of Springer (MS-WORD or LaTex format) without page numbers. The template can be downloaded above and shall not exceed *** 12 pages ***
- You must update your submission on Easychair with a ZIP file including:
- a signed Copyright Form (**PDF format**). The template can be downloaded below.
- the final version of your paper (**MS-WORD or Latex format**)
- A document stating the changes performed taking into account the reviews using the SSCT 2023 conference management system.
The copyright’s data for SSCt 2023 (Main track, Workshops & Doctoral Consortium) are:
- TITLE: Trends in Sustainable Smart Cities and Territories
- EDITORS: Luis Fernando Castillo Ossa, Gustavo Isaza, Óscar Cardona, Omar Danilo Castrillón, Juan Manuel Corchado, and Fernando De la Prieta
Download pre-filled form for SSCt (Main track, Workshops & Doctoral Consortium)
Submission
All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the SSCt 2023 conference management system.
For a paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one of the authors must register for the conference by the camera-ready copy deadline. Papers must be presented by one of the authors at the conference live.
Review process
SSCT 2023 welcomes the submission of application papers with preference to the topics listed in the call for papers. All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process; each paper will be refereed by at least three experts in the field based on relevance, originality, significance, quality and clarity. The papers must consist of original, relevant and previously unpublished sound research results related to any of the topics of the conference.
Each submission must be identified as presenting (1) theoretical/methodological research, (2) applied research/emerging applications, (3) a deployed application, and will be reviewed using criteria appropriate to its category, (4) literature surveys. These criteria are as follows:
- Theoretical/methodological research: Scientific significance, originality, technical quality, and clarity;
- Applied research/emerging applications: Significance for theoretical research or promise for application deployment;
- Deployed application: Demonstrated practical significance; originality; treatment of issues of engineering, management, and user acceptance; and clarity;
- Literature survey: Well-developed body of research, the inclusion of works from several authors, significance, clarity, open research questions.
Publication
Accepted papers will be included in SSCt2023 Proceedings. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include it in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by LNNS Springer Verlag.
** Indexing: The books of this series are submitted to DBLP, INSPEC, Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series, SCImago, SCOPUS, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, Google Scholar, Springerlink. **
Special Issues
Authors of selected papers from SSCt2023 will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to special issue in different journals.
Authors of selected papers from SSCt2023 will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue "The Advances of Smart Services for the Creation of Adaptive Smart Areas in Sustainable Smart Cities" published in MDPI Electronics Journal (ISSN: 2079-9292, JCR (2021): 2.690 (Q3) - Publindex: A2).
Authors of selected papers from SSCt2023 will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue "Frontiers of Agents and Multiagent Systems" published in MDPI Sensors Journal (ISSN: 1424-8220, JCR (2021): 3.847 (Q2) - Publindex: A1).
Authors of selected papers from SSCt2023 will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue "Edge Computing in IoT Networks Based on Artificial Intelligence" published in MDPI Sensors Journal (ISSN: 1424-8220, JCR (2021): 3.847 (Q2) - Publindex: A1).