International Conference on Sustainable Smart Computing And Communications
March 13-14, 2026

Authors are invited to submit papers through the Microsoft CMT service before 1 January, 2026.

For any inquiry about the conference, please feel free to contact us at: icsscc03@gmail.com

Submission Guidelines

Strictly follow the Springer manuscript preparation guidelines https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/your-publication-journey/manuscript-preparation

The allowable pages in the camera-ready paper, for short papers (6-8) pages, and for long papers (10-12) pages.

The manuscript should fall under the scope and allied areas/tracks of the conference. TPC has the full right to determine the scope before recommending the paper for review.

Simultaneous submission means where the same manuscript is submitted to multiple conferences at the same time. We do not encourage authors to go for simultaneous submissions. TPC's decision will be final in such cases.

Papers with maximum 15% similarity report will be considered for the review process (excluding Bibliography)

Paper must be written in English and use standard Springer templates. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process. We will follow a double-blind review process.

It is the responsibility of the authors to submit the final camera-ready paper and transfer copyright through the link which will be shared after acceptance.

papers will go through a rigorous, double-blind reviewing process. At least one author of an accepted paper will have to register at the conference (full registration required) in order to submit the final version. All papers accepted and presented at the conference will be submitted to further publication.

Authors MUST submit their papers electronically using Microsoft CMT service

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.

Agreement accepted

Policy for Plagiarism

All submitted manuscripts will be subjected to “Similarity check” by a licensed version of “iThenticate: Plagiarism Detection Software”. Articles achieving a minimal similarity index (less than 15%) alone will be examined, and those deemed unacceptable will be rejected/withdrawn without a formal review. Submissions should also ensure less than 3% similarity from a single source. Authors are requested to refrain from plagiarism in any form. Authors should submit their original and unpublished research work, which is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Manuscript with a higher similarity index will be rejected during any review stage. As per the copyright transfer agreement, authors are deemed individually and collectively responsible for the content of manuscripts published by them. Hence, it is the responsibility of each author to strive for the highest ethical standards concerning plagiarism.

Important Instructions for AI-Generated Text such as ChatGPT

The use of content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in an article in any form (text, figures, images, and code) shall be clearly disclosed in the acknowledgments section of the paper submitted for review. The AI system used shall be identified, and specific sections of the article that use AI-generated content shall be identified and accompanied by a brief explanation regarding the level at which the AI system was used to generate the content. Failing which paper shall be directly rejected without any reviewer comments.

Peer Review Policy

The ICSSCC-2026 conference review process follows a double-blind review. The plagiarism check committee initially verifies the submitted paper for plagiarism using the authenticate plagiarism detection tool. A maximum of 15% similarity with proper citations and content overlapping shall be below 3% is permitted before initiating the review process.

Each paper will be reviewed by a minimum of three reviewers, all of whom are subject experts. A maximum of 5 papers will be assigned to a single reviewer.

The papers will be selected on the basis of technical quality, relevance to theme of the conference, originality, significance, and clarity which will undergo double blind peer review process shall be considered for publication in the conference proceedings. The review process will be organized by a strong team of both national and international technical committee members having specialized field of domains.

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.

Agreement accepted

The following is the acceptance criteria for papers in the International Conference on Sustainable Smart Computing and Communications (ICSSCC-2026):

The paper’s relevance to the conference’s themes: The authors have to make sure that the paper should relate to the conference’s core themes or any other works within scope of conference domains. Ideally, the paper should address the issues, the works, or the advancements in these areas.

Originality and Innovation: The submissions have to be completely original works that are not published or under review elsewhere. Moreover, submissions must present some novel ideas, methods, or applications within their domains.

Technical Depth and Contribution: The paper must present some technical in-depth work and also some substantial contribution to the field, such as the proposed methods, frameworks, systems must be well-delineated, and it should advance or improve the existing work.

Methodology and Validation: The research methodology must be very robust and well described, and it should be suitable for the study, and the research results must be verified.

Clarity of Presentation: The paper should be very well structured with a good introduction, literature review, methodology, results, discussions, and a conclusion. It should be very well-written with minimum grammatical errors, and it should be comprehensible to the conference’s target audience.

Ethical Consideration: It must consider the Ethical considerations, especially for sensitive topics such as AI, healthcare, and data privacy, etc., and it should follow the Ethical guidelines, for example, providing good citation and not writing a biased report.

Comprehensive literature: It should contain a comprehensive literature survey and find the gaps in the existing literature and how the proposed work is filling those gaps and has to have proper citation and references as per conference template.

Quality of result and analysis: The quality of the result has to be provided with different graphs, charts, tables, or visual tools to present the results. The analysis has to be done efficiently to give more insights from the result and also state the limitations using the result.

Submission guidelines: As the final process, all the submissions must adhere to the conference’s submission guidelines related to the page limit, font style, and other requiring things and also should be submitted within the deadline specified.

To ensure the ethical quality of the submission, the reviewer follows the below criteria:

Originality: Paper must be original and not plagiarised. All references should cite correctly and properly.

Ethical Practice: Transparency related to the collection, use, and sharing of data. The author must disclose any potential conflict of interest.

Data Integrity: Authors need to ensure the integrity of their data and methods. The paper should have accurate, reliable, unmanipulated data.

Acknowledgment: Authors should be acknowledged, and credit should be given to funding sources, institutions or individuals, etc.

Disclosure of Funding and Conflicts of Interest: The author must disclose any funding sources, and any financial or nonfinancial conflict of interest.

Compliance with Conference Policies: Authors should follow conference policies. In the event of substantial ethical concerns, author agreement to publish corrections or retractions.

Reviewers will give Suggestions in three parts:

1. Mandatory changes / corrections
2. Possible modifications for betterment
3. Suggestions for extending the work in future (for implementing while submitting in journal special issues of the conference)

Role of the reviewers will comprise:

1. Strict and rigorous review process for papers received.
2. Peer reviewers will identify and point out gaps in concern paper which require explanation or additional work or validation.
3. Valid suggestions for authors of contributed papers for further improvement.
4. Compromise will not be entertained in consideration or acceptance of paper.
5. Papers will be rigorously evaluated based on novelty, significance, clarity, relevance, and repeatability.