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 / Double-blind / Triple-blind / Open / Other Single-anonymous: authors’ identities are known to the reviewers, reviewers’ identities are hidden from authorsDouble-anonymous: author and reviewer identities are hidden to each otherTriple-blind: author and reviewer identities are hidden to each other, and from the Editor(s)Open: author and reviewer identities are known to each other• Describe criteria used by Reviewers when accepting/declining papers. Was there the opportunity to resubmit articles after revisions? Topic of the paper must be consistent with the presentation/poster presented during the Conference as well as the thematic panels of the Conference.After submission of a paper editorial team checked the paper’s composition and its arrangement. Then invitations with enclosed abstract of the paper was sent to appropriate Reviewers. As two formal acceptances of an invitation were received, Reviewers were sent the full paper and the review form prepared by the editorial team. The time for the review was set up to 30 days. The review then was submitted to the editorial team with a recommendation to accept the paper in the present form or to make minor/major corrections or to reject it. The editorial team sent a decision email to the author including reviewers’ opinions and suggestions. While revision was needed, the author was given 14 days for corrections and resubmitting the article. In case of minor corrections, the editorial verified the paper and made the final decision. But in case of major corrections, the corrected paper was sent to the Reviewers once again for the further evaluation after which the editorial team made the final decision.• Conference submission management system: Submission, review process as well as all communication with authors and reviewers were made via Conferences’ e-mail box• Number of submissions received: 44• Number of submissions sent for review: 44• Number of submissions accepted: 39• Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 88,64• Average number of reviews per paper: 2• Total number of reviewers involved: 59 (30 foreign and 29 from Poland)• Any additional info on review process (ie plagiarism check system): No• Contact person for queries: Damian Kasza; Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, 27 Wyb. Wyspianskiego St., 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland;damian.kasza@pwr.edu.pl