Work-in-Progress (WiP) papers summarize speculative breakthroughs, open problems, new application challenges, visionary ideas, and preliminary studies or recent achievements that are not quite ready for a regular full-length paper. We encourage submissions of work-in-progress reports from ongoing research. The paper should describe the underlying ideas and motivations for the work in sufficient detail to allow the reviewers to assess the potential contribution of the work. The paper should also state explicitly how the work is “in progress”; explain the future directions and challenges for the project, and state how the work reported in this paper contributes to that bigger research agenda.

Submitted papers are expected to fit within the subject matter scope of the conference as stated publicly in the conference’s website and Call for Papers. Please, check the IEEE EDUNINE Conference Guide to Scope and Quality Criteria (see below) before submitting your paper.

Submitted papers must have been neither previously accepted for publication nor concurrently submitted for review in another journal, book, conference, or workshop.

The manuscript should contain most (if not all) of the elements found in academic papers:

1. An introductory statement of the purpose of the paper, usually describing the hypothesis that will be tested and a summary of related previous work by others.
2. Methods used to test the hypothesis should be given in sufficient detail that another researcher in the field could duplicate the testing.
3. The hypothesis should be tested and data representing the results of the testing presented.
4. A discussion of data and the results interpreted, with conclusions given.

Before submitting your paper, please ensure that it has been carefully read for typographical and grammatical errors. If English is not your first language, have your paper proofread by an English-speaking person. Papers will be returned for improvements if the standard of English is not considered to be good enough for publication, and revised again.

WIP Paper Format

A WIP Paper should have up to 4 (four) pages including references and an Abstract of 150 words at maximum in one paragraph. The title of a Work-in-progress (WIP) paper should begin with Work in progress: before the title of the work. Please, see the submission deadline at Important Dates on this page.

All papers must use the IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings, available in Microsoft Word doc/docx and LaTeX formatted for printing on A4. The template explains the formatting requirements of the paper format in detail. For LaTeX users, please use the "conference" option. Please download the IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings here.

The purpose of a conference template is to provide a consistent format for papers appearing in the conference proceedings. The template should be used as-is. Papers that modify the template, e.g., by picking narrower line-spacing or margins than what the template defines, will be rejected for publication. If using MS-Word, formatting of the various elements of the paper must be done using the pre-defined MS-Word styles in the template, rather than manually. The document must use all the predefined font styles, sizes, etc. as per the template.

Papers not conforming to the conference IEEE Manuscript Templates styles will be returned.

Online WIP Paper submission

Please submit you manuscript (WIP Paper) file using our electronic Submission System (EDUNINE2023 Openconf) through the Paper Submission page on this website before the submission deadline (see deadlines in Important Dates on this page). Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Do not email files to the conference.

WIP Paper selection process

Peer review is vital to the quality of published research. IEEE requires all conference papers to go through the peer-review process before publication.

All papers will be subject to peer review, based on originality, technical content and/or research, depth, rigor, and relevance to the conference, contribution, and readability in English. To increase high-quality papers and independent merit, the evaluation process will be double-blind for WIP Papers. The papers submitted for review MUST NOT contain the authors’ names, affiliations, or any information that may disclose the authors’ identity. Please, let the lines of author information as in the template, this information will be completed in the camera-ready version upon acceptance. In particular, in the version submitted for review please avoid explicit auto-references. You should cite your relevant previous work so that a reviewer can access it and see the new contributions. The text should not explicitly state that the cited work belongs to the authors.

More information about the Peer-review of the Paper selection process in IEEE EDUNINE Conference Guide to Scope and Quality Criteria on this page.