Glossary

1 - Submission Type

1.1 - Regular Paper

1.2 - Position Paper

2 - Acceptance Type and Publication

2.1 - Full Paper

2.2 - Short Paper

3 - Presentation Type

3.1 - Oral Presentation

3.2 - Poster Presentation

1 - Submission Type

1.1 - Regular Paper

A regular paper presents a report concerning research work that is supposed to be completed and validated. The theme of the paper must be focused on one of the conference topic areas. The paper structure should follow the normal pattern, including an introduction, comparison with related work, research ideas and results, critical analysis, conclusions and references. A regular paper can be accepted as "full paper" or "short paper".
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1.2 - Position Paper

A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the category of "short paper", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".
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2 - Acceptance Type and Publication

2.1 - Full Paper

Full Papers are awarded a 25’ minutes slot (including the time for questions and discussion) for an oral presentation at the conference and they will be assigned a 12-page limit in the Conference Proceedings. They are sent to all major indexers such as Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI/ISI), DBLP, EI (Elsevier Engineering Village Index), Scopus, Google Scholar and Semantic Scholar and all papers presented at the venue will be included in the SCITEPRESS Digital Library.
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2.2 - Short Paper

Short Papers are either awarded a 20’ minutes slot (including the time for questions and discussion) for oral presentation or presented at a Poster Session usually 45 minutes to 60 minutes long. They will be assigned an 8-page limit in the Conference Proceedings. In any case they are published in the proceedings and sent to all major indexers, such as Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI/ISI), DBLP, EI (Elsevier Engineering Village Index), Scopus, Google Scholar and Semantic Scholar. All papers presented at the venue will be included in the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. Abstracts are an exception to the previous information since they will be presented but not published in the proceedings or included in the Digital Library.
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3 - Presentation Type

3.1 - Oral Presentation

Accepted papers can be presented either orally or as posters. The length of oral presentations can vary between 20 and 25 minutes, depending on the acceptance type and each session has a chair. It is expected that the presenter is ready in the room before the session begins. All technical session rooms are equipped with a video projector and a computer running Microsoft Windows with Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat Reader. It is recommended that your presentation is uploaded to PRIMORIS before the conference, which ensures that it will be stored at the aforementioned computer by the time it is needed. However, you may prefer to bring it in a USB drive (also recommended as a backup precaution). Using your own laptop or smart device, as long as it is enabled with VGA output connection is possible but not recommended. The presenter should prepare a set of slides that clearly illustrate the main points of her/his paper, and make sure the presentation fits well within the assigned time slot, leaving at least 5 minutes for a period of question-answering. Should sound be required, the presenter is kindly requested to contact the conference secretariat at least 3 weeks in advance in order to ensure proper arrangements. The rooms are not normally equipped with a sound amplification system. It may be useful to follow presentation best practices (e.g. University of Delaware https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.udel.edu/dist/e/299/files/2011/07/Communication-Best-Practices-Oral-Presentations.pdf, Penn State https://www.e-education.psu.edu/styleforstudents/c7_p4.html).
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3.2 - Poster Presentation

Accepted papers can be presented either orally or as posters. Posters will have a specific session for being presented to a larger audience, between 45 and 60 minutes, during which authors must be next to their poster to answer questions. The poster must not exceed the A0 (84 cm X 118 cm) portrait format. Please use an appropriate font size for the posters so that they are readable by the participants from 1.5 meter away. The poster message should be clear and understandable even without oral explanation. Please assure the poster is placed on the board before the beginning of the poster session. Authors are required to stand by their posters during the whole poster session, during which the participation certificates will be distributed. The poster must be printed beforehand and brought along to the conference by the author. Alternatively, the conference may provide a printing and transportation service but you must contact the secretariat at least one month ahead before the conference dates, inquiring about costs and deadlines. Please note that it is not acceptable to print A4 sheets and hang them at the poster board.
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