Peer review declaration

Abstract

To ensure quality and professional ethics a peer review mechanism has been adopted. The reviewers (at least two for each paper) received the manuscript with all the details of the authors and a form, prepared for the conference, with certain fields for comments and recommendations. The authors, at the next step, received anonymous reviews with the following possible recommendations: accept as is/minor revisions/major revisions/reject. The papers were revised by the authors accordingly and then forwarded to the same reviewers for final recommendation. The final decision was taken by the editors.Conference submission management system:The papers were submitted to easy-chair, Morressier and an e-mail, handled by the editors. The handling editor managed the correspondence between reviewers and authors.Number of submissions received: 205Number of submissions sent for review: 90Number of submissions accepted: 56Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 27.31Average number of reviews per paper: 3Total number of reviewers involved: 73Any additional info on the review process:A pre-screening process has been adopted to comply with the quality of technical content under the following steps:1. Screening of the papers has been done by the editors on the originality of the content, similarity index, and technical area. If the paper has a similarity index of less than 20% and is related to the theme of the conference, reviewers have been assigned by the editors.2. If the technical area of the submitted paper is not related to the theme of the conference, the paper has been sent back to the authors by the editors.3. If the similarity index is more than 20%, the paper has also been sent back to the authors for revision.Contact person for queries: Dr. Vikesh Gupta, Associate Professor and Head, Sushila Devi Bansal College, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, IN,E-mail: conference@sdbc.ac.in, M: +91 8435431353