Academia-to-Industry Competence Incubator

Open Innovations Association FRUCT

18th FRUCT conference: Registration

*PLEASE NOTE: Authors registration deadline is March 4, 2016 (March 24, 2016 for ISPIT).

All Authors and Attendees must register and receive a conference badge in order to participate in conference activities.

REGISTRATION

To be published in the FRUCT & ISPIT Conference Proceedings and IEEE Xplore®, an author of an accepted Full paper is required to register for the conference at the full (member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference unless the Conference or TPC Chair grants permission for a substitute presenter. Non-refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication-ready version of the paper. For authors with multiple accepted papers, one full or limited registration is valid for up to 3 papers (or 1 paper per author if case of free registration). Accepted and presented Full papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. Short papers and Works in progress will be published only in the conference proceedings.

Fees:
RG-01 - FRUCT members, before April 1, 2016 - FREE
RG-02 - Discounted registration for staff of EMC Academic Alliance (Russia & CIS) universities, before April 1, 2016 - 80 EURO
RG-03 - Discounted registration for IEEE members and representatives of Finnish/Russian/Danish/Ukrainian/Indian Universities, before April 1, 2016 - 120 EUR
RG-04 - Discounted full registration, before April 1, 2016 - 200 EURO
RG-05 - Late registration for representatives of Finnish/Russian/Danish/Ukrainian/Indian University - 150 EUR
RG-06 - Late full registration - 250 EURO
People listed in the Black List cannot take part in the event. Such registrations will be automatically cancelled without refund.

Details:
Conference dates: 18 - 22 Apr 2016
Conference location: Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Abstract submission deadline: 15 Jan 2016
Full Paper Submission deadline: 15 Jan 2016 (12 March 2016 for ISPIT)
Notification of acceptance date: 15 Feb 2016 (21 March 2016 for ISPIT)
Camera-ready submission deadline: 4 Mar 2016 (28 March 2016 for ISPIT)

VISA

Please account that citizens of EU, USA, Japan, Korea, China and majority of other countries need to obtain visa for entrance into Russia. Participants are responsible for completing all legal formalities regarding their visa prior to entering the Russian Federation. The procedure of visa application varies from country to country and could take more than 2 weeks. We would recommend to start it as soon as you know about your participation in the conference. Please check this with your local Embassy of Russian Federation. If you need invitation letter please contact us by email info fruct.org at least a month before the conference

PAPER SUBMISSION

If you are the conference author, please first register to the conference and then SUBMIT your Full paper (6 - 12 pages), or “presentation only” publication, poster/demo proposal (200 words - 5 pages document with standard paper header followed by the abstract text). Please submit your papers in PDF format and make sure that it follows our template: MS Word, LaTeX. Please note the following major changes in the templates: The size of page should be Letter (21.59 cm × 27.94 cm). If you are using Word margins must be: top - 1.9 cm, bottom - 1.6 cm, left - 1.57 cm and right – 1.57 cm. The archive file shall include .pdf and the source document in MS Word or LaTeX done according to template. Please make sure that all images in your paper are in black & white. In case of some open issues, our editors may ask you to send the original file in Word or LaTex.

After review all papers and abstracts have to be modified according to the feedback of reviewers and re-submitted in camera-ready form. If authors do not fulfill requirements and comments of the reviewers it could be a reason to reject a paper, even if its general quality is high enough.