Dear Researcher,
The BTSym'18 organizing committee invites researchers to attend and submit papers addressing the current research topics of interest. In 2018, the event after three days in duration, on October 23th, 24th and 25th, at the Mackenzie University, Campinas-SP (from 2:00pm to 7:00pm). Proceedings of the event will be published by the Springer Nature publisher through the book Proceedings of the 4th Brazilian Technology Symposium - Emerging Trends and Challenges in Technology, and will be submitted for indexing by Scopus, WoS and EI Compendex database.
Call for Papers
The Brazilian Technology Symposium, is an excellent forum for presentations and discussions of the latest results of projects and development research, in several areas of knowledge, in scientific and technological scope.
This event seeks to bring together researchers, students and professionals from the industrial and academic sectors, seeking to create and/or strengthen the linkages between issues of joint interest. Participants are invited to submit research papers, case studies, articles of opinion or posters, showing studies, methodologies and results achieved in scientific level research projects, completion of course work for graduation, dissertations and theses.
The areas of knowledge covered by the event are Smart Designs, Sustainability, Inclusion, Future Technologies, IoT, Architecture and Urbanism, Computer Science, Information Science, Industrial Design, Aerospace Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Civil Engineering, Control and Automation Engineering, Production Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Naval and Oceanic Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Probability and Statistics, Life Assistive, Electronic Government, Education Technologies, Diffuse and Diverse Projects and Miscellaneous. Authors are invited to submit a paper in research article, review article, case study, opinion article, poster, or short commentaries form, that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works, and industrial experiences describing significant advances in the following (but are not limited to) topics:
- Resilient and robust control;
- Flexibility and self-healing abilities;
- Vehicle systems;
- Computational Vision, Security Applications, Web Tool, Cloud Environment;
- Smart system architectures;
- Smart electricity;
- Remote Sensing, Wireless Sensor Network, Heterogeneous Networks;
- Decentralized decision-making;
- Phishing analytic and system security;
- Microgrid and islanding application and operation;
- Network Functions Virtualization, Software-Defined Networks, IoT;
- Quality-of- Service (QoS),
- Energy-efficiency, and Fault tolerance;
- Unmanned Ground Vehicle, Unmanned Aerial System, Security, Surveillance, Traffic Analysis;
- Resource management;
- Smart infrastructural dependencies;
- Residential Automation, Data Acquisition, Industry 4.0, Cyber-Physical Systems;
- Photocatalysis, Photodegradation;
- Distributed control and efficient optimization methods;
- Modelling and simulation of smart systems;
- Data analytics, sensing, processing and communication techniques for smart cities;
- Management techniques for distributed energy generation and storage to increase power availability in smart cities;
- Energy storage technologies;
- Service engineering and algorithm design;
- Cognitive Ergonomics, Ecosystem services, Environmental;
- Ecosystem services valuation, Solid Waste and University Extension;
- Real-world deployment experiences;
- Standards and interoperability of smart designs;
- Scalable designs;
- Education Technologies;
- Potential methods for sensor and actuator networking;
- Life Assistive, Electronic Government, Diffuse and Diverse Projects;
- Cities as Economic Engines, Governance of Complex Systems;
- Cyber-physical systems;
- Miscellaneous.
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Publications Options
For papers submitted to BTSym’18, we offer publishing as follows:
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Option A - Publication in Conference Proceedings of Springer Nature: After peer reviewed by at least 2-3 experts, all the accepted papers will be published into International Proceedings published by Springer Nature, in the form of a book, which it will be submitted for indexing by Scopus, WoS and EI Compendex database. This process of publishing is limited to 60 papers (8 pages per paper, including all figures, tables, and references). Extra pages may be charged at R$:100,00 per page.
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Option B - Publication in Conference Proceedings of BTSym’18: After peer reviewed by at least 2-3 experts, all the accepted papers will be published into national Proceedings published by LCV (Laboratory of Visual Communication). This process of publishing does not have submission amount limitation. Paper submission should be between 3 to 6 pages. Paper extending 1 or 2 pages at most will also be considered.
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Option C - Poster Section: For those who're NOT looking to publish their papers, it's acceptable to submit your POSTER to the conference, which will be sent to at least two technical committees for a brief review, and will be published into national Proceedings published by LCV (Laboratory of Visual Communication). This process of publishing does not have submission amount limitation.
Rules
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Articles should be preferably submitted in English to the Conference Proceedings of Springer;
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Articles should be preferably submitted in English to the Conference Proceedings of BTSym’18 (papers in Portuguese and Spanish will also be considered, only in this option).
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Authors and Attendees will receive BTSym'18 certificates.
- Among all approved submissions, probably some articles will be invited to make an oral presentation with approximate time of 15 minutes, as speaker in the BTSym'18 discussion panels (in development).
- The approved articles, not invited to make an oral presentation, will be invited to make an poster presentation of your article in the poster section. In this case, in addition to the article to be published, the author should develop a poster.
Submission Method
All submissions will be peer reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical and/or research content/depth, correctness, relevance to conference, contributions, and readability. Submissions will be chosen based on technical merit, interest, applicability, and how well they fit a coherent and balanced technical program. We firmly believe that ethical conduct is the most essential virtual of any academic. Hence any act of plagiarism is a totally unacceptable academic misconduct and cannot be tolerated.
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For papers submitted to option A and B: Prospective authors are kindly invited to submit full text papers including results, tables, figures and references. Full text papers (.pdf, .doc) will be accepted via Electronic submission system (https://ocs.springer.com/misc/home/BTSym2018).
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For papers submitted to option C: Poster Template: It will be accepted via email by interested parties. Please sento to e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Follow the template when preparing your full paper:
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Option A - Paper Template and Information's: LaTeX Package or Word Template (to download click this link: SpringerNature's proceedings), Consent to Publish (It should be sent PDF format and signed by the first author), Permission Request Form (It should be sent PDF format and signed by the first author). If in doubt, the author must be analyzes the link: Springer_Guidelines_for_Authors_of_Proceedings;
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Option B - Paper Template;
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Option C - Poster Template (For illustration purposes only, if you wish to use this template, please request by email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.);
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Presentation - Presentation Template (For illustration purposes only, if you wish to use this template, please request by email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.);
Important Dates
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Submission of Proposals deadline: September 30th, 2018
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Registration deadline: October 25th, 2018