8th IET SMART CITIES SYMPOSIUM
1-3 December 2024
UNIVERSITY OF BAHRAIN
IN COLLABORATION WITH
IET, THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, UK
UNIVERSITY OF BAHRAIN
IS ORGANIZING
8-SCS-2024
8th IET SMART CITIES SYMPOSIUM
Date: 1-3 December 2024
Venue: e-Learning Center - University of Bahrain - Kingdom of Bahrain
Symposium Proceeding Volume will be submitted to the
IET Inspec, IEEE Xplore, Elsevier's Scopus for indexing
An annually run IET symposium related to development of smart innovations for smart cities. The symposium objectives are; to create awareness through research and publications about the future prospects of smart cities. The symposium also serves as a platform to exchange ideas and thoughts in international prospect and stand. In addition, the symposium is emphasizing the role of academia, universities, industries, experts, and innovations for promoting smart cities solutions, projects, smarter ideas, consultancies and continuity in the form of indexed publications. The 8th IET International Smart Cities Symposium (8-scs-2024) will be held at the University of Bahrain, Bahrain, on December 1-3, 2024. The symposium will feature world-class plenary speakers, major technical symposiums, industry and academic panels, and invited tracks. For more information, please visit symposium website: https://www.iet-smartcities-symposium.com/. You are cordially invited to submit your latest research work to the symposium. Best paper awards will be selected from accepted papers. The symposium and tracks papers will be published and indexed in IET Inspec - IEEE Xplore, and will appear on other indexing databases.
8th SCS-2024 SYMPOSIUM
Author's Instructions
Call for Papers
Camera-Ready Paper & Submission Instructions
IMPORTANT DATES & DEADLINES
PROCEEDING WILL BE SUBMITTED TO IET INSPEC/ IEEE Xplore/ SCOPUS
IET GUIDELINES
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All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (10-point font) including figures.
Papers exceeding 6 pages will not be accepted at EDAS. When preparing your manuscript, please pay also attention to the following:
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IET Publication Guidelines:
Please only include accepted papers which have the necessary paper and copyright files.
Conference paper BP
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Requirement for Conference paper
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Must be a Word file or a PDF file (not an Image file)
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Title of paper should match or be very similar to title on the Copyright form
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Authors should match the copyright form or at the very least, the submitting author must be on the copyright form
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Must not contain any track changes/highlighting
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Must be written in English
Copyright Form BP
Required for Copyright form:
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Name of submitting author
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Title of paper
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Print name of author
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Must be written in English
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Must be a PDF or Word file
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Must contain all pages of copyright form
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If this is a photo/scan must be clear
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Must not include track changes
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Date of completion
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Amendments to conference papers:
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We are very limited in what we can ethically amend after the publication of conference proceedings and will need to treat change requests on a case by case basis. Ethical changes are generally restricted to the following:
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The authors name has been spelt incorrectly
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Significant errors in the affiliation at time of writing (please note that we cannot change the affiliation to a new one if an author has changed institution since the paper has been published. It must be the location of the affiliation at the time of writing the paper.)
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Remove authors if ethical issues come up (eg. person was not involved/ not aware of paper submission)
We are not able to change any of the following:
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Affiliations when an author has changed institution
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Add authors
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Scientific content
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Spelling errors
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If your paper has been prepared using (MS) Microsoft Word, please ensure that you have used the most current version which will help reduce word-to-pdf conversion issues such as embedded fonts, bookmarks, etc.
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No page numbers and no headers/footers.
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Use non-zero PDF top and bottom margins (typically at least 0.5 inches/12.7 mm) to help indicate if there are any page numbers.
SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE
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The symposium technical committee would need to take ownership of reviewing the abstracts/papers, ensuring the quality and relevance to the event before accepting them onto the program. The paper is not published if the speaker doesn’t attend the event and present the paper. Paper submission is reviewed by the Symposium International Technical Committee, which serves to review the submitted papers and contents. Notifications of review will be sent to authors within ten days after the shown deadline.
Important Dates
Start Call for Papers and Technical Sessions: 01 February 2024
FULL PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE : 30 June 2024 - Closed
REVIEW DECISION NOTIFICATIONS : 30 August 2024
FINAL PAPER SUBMISSION (AFTER REVIEW) : 30 September 2024
CAMERA-READY PAPERS: 15 October 2024
IET COPYRIGHT Form Uploading : 30 October 2024
Symposium Dates: 01-03 December 2024
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IET SUBMISSION FORMAT
Full papers (No more than 10 pages in length).
All submissions must be in English.
Papers should follow IET Symposium Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings.
Submissions should be made through the Symposium Management System (EDAS).
Link for paper submission (follow the below EDAS submission link).
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SYMPOSIUM PAPERS TEMPLATES
The Symposium Technical Committee will use the full papers submission template, to check the formality of the submitted papers. This is then reviewed by a specialized technical committee to ensure the quality is suitable. Once accepted, the full paper (after reviewers corrections) is requested.
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Once a paper is confirmed to be part of the program, it is needed the final paper to be submitted in the posted (IET Paper Template) template/style (no changes on the font or layout).
PERMISSION FORM
We need the submitter to sign the form and provide a copy with the final paper. This is very important.
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DISCLAIMER
The IET Digital Library/Inspec Team will also review the papers to ensure the content is correct before uploading the papers.
The uploading process can take up to 3 months.
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PAPERS SUBMISSION EDAS INFO
Paper can be submitted to the EDAS Link, under the Symposium
(Press the PAPER SUBMISSION LINK to submit the manuscript)
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Manuscript Upload: EDAS Submission to the 8-SCS'24:
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(Submission has been CLOSED) ... for further information, please contact the Technical Committee
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IET SUBMISSION FORMAT
Submission is limited to max (10 pages) only. Symposium Papers will appear in IET Inspec Digital Library, and the Scopus. Scopus, is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Please find below attached documents to help with the 8th Smart Cities Event (paper submission onto the IET Digital Library Format):
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IET COPYRIGHT FORM
IET PAPER FORMAT
PAPER TEMPLATE - LaTex - BITX Format, follow this link
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more ....... Symposium Papers Submission Info.
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Follow the IET Format found over this site.
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Paper Submission is through the EDAS System. Check this (IET SUBMISSION FORMAT) for formats and other related submission details.
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EDAS Login for 8-SCS'24 through: Edas Manuscript Upload: 8-SCS'24 (closed)
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FINAL Submission is a FULL PAPER.
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LATEX submission option is also be available.
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LATEX submission Format:
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Papers submission can also be in LaTex Format (LaTeX – A document preparation system, with BITEX), refer to above.
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Download the Preformatted PAPER TEMPLATE - MSW Format , or the LaTex (Document), or PAPER TEMPLATE - LaTex Format, PDF .
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PAPER TEMPLATE - MSW Format, PAPER TEMPLATE - LaTex - BITX Format, follow this link
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Symposium Proceedings will be produced during the event.
Symposium Presentation Templates
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Symposium Presentation
Templates, download from below links
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Presentation Templates - Theme (light Template), download from this link
Presentation Templates - Theme (Dark Template), download from this link
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