Peer review declaration

Abstract

All conference organisers/editors are required to declare details about their peer review. Therefore, please provide the following information:• Type of peer review: Single-blind Single-blind peer review-reviewers’ identities are kept hidden from authors.• Conference submission management system: Open Conf Peer Review and Conference Management System• Number of submissions received: 78 manuscripts.• Number of submissions sent for review: 76 manuscripts.• Number of submissions accepted: 51 manuscripts.• Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 65%• Average number of reviews per paper: 3 reviewers.• Total number of reviewers involved: 108 reviewers.• Any additional info on review process: Manuscript score with similarity check less than 30% after screening with Turnitin plagiarism software will be sent for a single-blind review process. The manuscripts were evaluated based on the technical criteria, quality criteria, and presentation criteria. The main aspect when assessing the manuscripts is quality and clarity of the content, originality, contribution to the related field, organization and readability as well as the quality of English. The reviewers were asked to fill in the peer review form and review questions from OpenConf Peer Review and Conference Management System. There are six reviewer’s decisions on the review process including (i) must accept, (ii) clear accept, (iii) marginal tend to accept, (iv) marginal tend to reject, (v) probable reject, and (vi) reject with specifying their confidence (low, moderate, high) regarding qualifications to review the allocated paper. After editors received the review manuscripts, the authors were asked to revise and resubmit their manuscript according to the reviewer’s comments.• Contact person for queries: Dr. Nurbaiti WahidSchool of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering,Universiti Teknologi MARA, Terengganu, MALAYSIAnurbaiti@uitm.edu.my