Peer Review Declaration

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The Organiser and/or the Editor(s) are required to declare details about their peer review processes. Therefore, please provide the following information: ➢ Type of peer review: Single-blind (the identity of reviewers is not known by the authors) Criteria used by reviewers: The papers underwent assessment based on their scientific substance, the novelty of the information they presented, language accuracy, and the quality of their presentation. Reviewers were provided with a structured review form encompassing sections on novelty, contextual relevance, manuscript coherence (including communication effectiveness and result clarity), abstract adequacy, language proficiency, and absence of commercial bias. Additionally, reviewers were required to provide constructive comments and suggestions for authors in designated sections. They were further tasked with recommending papers for publication, revision, or rejection. Subsequently, reviewers' feedback, facilitated by the track director, was relayed to the authors, who were then responsible for revising their papers in accordance with the reviewers' input and resubmitting them. Final acceptance (or rejection) decisions were made by the conference track director only after authors had made the necessary revisions. ➢ Conference submission management system: Open Conference System (https://siarcongress.eu/index.php/mvt/2022) ➢ Number of submissions received: 107 ➢ Number of submissions sent for review: 67 ➢ Number of submissions accepted:53 ➢ Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 49.53 % ➢ Average number of reviews per paper: 2 ➢ Total number of reviewers involved: 20 ➢ As additional info on review process the papers were checked for plagiarism with www.turnitinn.com platform (the papers ware uploaded in the platform, verified and presented a report with ➢ Contact person for queries: Liviu MIHON, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania, email: liviu.mihon@upt.ro