SUBMISSIONS

Prospective authors are invited to contribute to the conference by electronically submitting papers and abstracts in English, Portuguese or Spanish, according to the models found here;

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS: PAPERS

• Best papers (in English) that are related to the scope of the book series will be published as a chapter in Springer Nature series Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS; ISSN 1865-0929). Click here for CCIS book from LAWCN 2017. CCIS is abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings;
  
  
  
• As mentioned in the book series website: "The topical scope of CCIS spans the entire spectrum of informatics ranging from foundational topics in the theory of computing to information and communications science and technology and a BROAD VARIETY OF INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATION FIELDS."
• Papers that are not related directly to Computer Science will be published online in the II Latin-American Workshop on Computational Neuroscience Proceedings (with ISBN) and can be submitted in English, Portuguese, or Spanish (see proceedings of LAWCN 2017 here).
• Papers will be evaluated based on their quality and significance of the theoretical and practical contribution to Computational Neuroscience, Neuroengineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Neuroscience in general;
• All papers (Short or Full) must be in PDF format and include abstract, figures, tables and references in the minimum/maximum number of pages (according to the category desired);
• Papers can be submitted in four categories (see image below):
• Short paper not related directly to Computer Science:
• Length: between 3 and 8 pages
• Languages: English, Spanish, and Portuguese
• Short paper related to Computer Science:
• Length: between 6 and 9 pages
• Language: English only
• Full paper not related directly to Computer Science:
• Length: between 10 and 20 pages
• Languages: English, Spanish and Portuguese
• Full paper related to Computer Science:
• Length: between 10 and 20 pages
• Language: English only



• Papers can be submitted in English, Portuguese or Spanish, but only the best articles, in English, and directly related to Computer Science will be published in CCIS;
• Papers should be submitted exclusively through the conference submission system (EasyChair), linked below;
• At least one author must register, pay the registration fee, and present the accepted paper orally for the manuscript to be included in the workshop proceedings / CCIS volume. If more than one article per the first author is accepted, there will be an extra registration fee.
• One of the authors must sign and attach the disclosure form if the paper is accepted;
• It is encouraged that authors own an identification from ORCID to be included in the manuscript main body. You can register at ORCID here;
• All authors should consult and follow Springer’s author’s guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for MSWord (2003 and older / 2010 and newer ), for the preparation of their papers;
• All authors should read and abide to Springer’s ethical guidelines;
• A LaTeX template for the event can be found within Overleaf tool, but submission directly from this system is not available.

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS: ABSTRACT

• Abstracts will be published online in the II Latin-American Workshop on Computational Neuroscience Proceedings (with ISBN).
• Abstracts will be evaluated based on their quality and significance of the theoretical and practical contribution to Computational Neuroscience, Neuroengineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Neuroscience in general. Ongoing and incomplete work is perfectly acceptable for abstracts.
• Authors should strictly observe the following guidelines:
• Abstracts must contain the following sections (in order): Full title, List of authors, Affiliations, Introduction (with objectives), Methods, Results, Discussion, and Acknowledgements (for funding agencies and others).
• References should be avoided. If mandatory, they should be kept to a very minimum and should be inserted in short format (without title) in the end of the abstract.
• Texts must contain a maximum of 600 words, including all sections.
• Texts must be a single page in length.
• Authors are allowed to include one figure OR one table only if it can fit in a single page with the main text, placed after Discussion section and before Acknowledgments.
• Font size, margins, line separation, and other formatting parameters are described in the abstract model found here and must be observed strictly.
• Authors must submit their abstracts exclusively via e-mail, to [email protected]. DO NOT USE the conference paper submission system, linked in the previous session;
• Authors may identify their e-mail with the following subject: “Abstract submission: , - ”. For example: “Abstract submission: McCulloch, W. – Univ. of Chicago”;
• At least one author must register, pay the registration fee, and present the accepted abstract as poster in the conference (time and place to be defined) in order for the work to be included in the workshop proceedings. If more than one abstract per the first author is accepted, there will be an extra registration fee.
• Abstracts with too many grammatical errors, typos, or formatting problems will be rejected.
• Authors will also be requested to give a 60 to 90-seconds oral presentation (pitch) to the full audience, as a call to his / her poster.
• Abstract, poster, and pitch must be in the same language.