Final Submission Guidelines

Final versions of accepted papers must be uploaded to EasyChair for inclusion in the conference proceedings and to be submitted to IEEE Xplore®.
Your final paper must be submitted no later than 23:59 pm Friday, 25th November 2022. To submit your Final paper, please go to EasyChair and upload your paper by updating your previous submission.

Revise Your Paper (Camera Ready Version):

Please read the reviews of your paper and follow the reviewers' recommendations for revising it and preparing the final version. When you are done with the revision, please print out your paper and carefully proofread it. Six (6) A4 size pages in two-column IEEE format are allowed at no cost. The maximum number of pages is 8. Main text (including figures, tables, appendices, and any material other than references) must be no more than 7 pages. Page 7, 8 will be only allowed with a charge of Rs 1000 (USD 10 for foreign authors) for each additional page. Papers must be submitted in PDF format only. Please include authors names and affiliations in the camera-ready version. Please make sure to only use IEEE Conference Paper Templates (MS Word/Latex) available at: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html

IEEE Microsoft Word Template can be found at :
https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/conferences/Conference-template-letter.doc
This is a necessary condition to ensure that your paper will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for proceedings.

IEEE Copyright Transfer

IEEE requires all authors who intend to publish in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library to provide a transfer of the copyright.

For papers in which all authors are employed by the US government, the copyright notice is: U.S. Government work not protected by U.S. copyright

For papers in which all authors are employed by a Crown government (UK, Canada, and Australia), the copyright notice is: 978-1-6654-8939-3/22/$31.00 ©2022 Crown

For papers in which all authors are employed by the European Union, the copyright notice is: 978-1-6654-8939-3/22/$31.00 ©2022 European Union

For all other papers the copyright notice is: 978-1-6654-8939-3/22/$31.00 ©2022 IEEE

IEEE PDF eXpress

Before uploading the camera reading version, use IEEE PDF eXpress to check if your paper is Xplore compatible.
PDF eXpress instructions: The PDF eXpress website can be found at:
https://ieee-pdf-express.org/account/login?ReturnUrl=%2F
and the conference ID for ICCWS 2022 is 56285x.

Paper Submission Guidelines

The papers must be submitted on standard IEEE format against the topics mentioned in "Call for Papers".

Length and formatting requirements:

Papers must be submitted in PDF format only. Six (6) A4 size pages in two-column IEEE format are allowed for each paper, including figures, references, etc.
A maximum of two additional pages is permitted. Rs. 1000(USD 10 for foreign authors) per page will be charged for extra pages (page 7 and 8).
IEEE Microsoft Word A4 size Template can be downloaded from the following Address:
https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/conferences/Conference-template-letter.doc.
For Template in Latex, please visit IEEE Template website:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html.
Check your paper for grammatical and spelling errors.

Dual Submissions and Ethical Requirements:

By submitting a manuscript to ICCWS-2022, authors acknowledge that the paper is substantially original and the paper does not contain any plagiarism. Authors should check that no sentence is copied (if a sentence is copied, the permission from original paper and academic writing techniques should be followed). Authors can use iThenticate, Turnitin, CrossCheck, etc., for this purpose. Strict IEEE Plagiarism policy will be followed:IEEE: A Plagiarism FAQ
Authors also acknowledge that the paper (or its substantially similar content) has not been previously published in any peer-reviewed conference, workshop or journal and will neither be submitted elsewhere during the review period of ICCWS-2022.

Paper submissions

Minimally, please take the following steps when preparing your submission:

    The submitted manuscript or its title/abstract should not be posted on a public website, such as arxiv.org, or transmitted via public mailing lists.
  • The submitted manuscript (PDF file) should be text-searchable. Any submission that does not meet this requirement may be returned without review.

Registration and Presentation:

  • Last date of Registration is 2nd December 2022 . For conference registration, please visit the Registration page at IEEE ICCWS 2022 website: https://nccs.pk/Conference/ICCWS-2022-OnlineRegistrations
  • At least one of the authors must register for the conference.
  • For authors with multiple accepted papers, one full registration is valid for up to 3 main conference papers.
  • Non-refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication-ready version of the paper.
  • At least one author must present the paper unless the TPC Chair/Co-Chair grants permission for a substitute presenter before the conference.
  • After submitting your camera ready version of paper, all authors must submit their presenation to secretariat.nccs@gmail.com with copy to iccws.secretariat@nccs.pk by 28th November 2022.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline (Final): 30th September 2022 (11:59PM PST)
Acceptance Notification: 15th November 2022 (11:59PM PST)
Camera Ready Submission: 25th November 2022 (11:59PM PST)
Papers can be submitted at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccws2022
Conference Template:
https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/conferences/conference-template-a4.docx