Guidelines for Authors

Scientific contributions

Regular speakers can contribute to the conference in several ways:

• A full paper (6 to 8 pages) and oral presentation 
• A short communication paper (2 to 4 pages) and a flash presentation
• A poster presentation (A0 format)

Keynote speakers can contribute with a submission of full paper. They are allocated a 20 min. presentation + 5 min. Q&A.

The scientific committee of the conference reserves the right to adapt the nature of the presentation (12 min. presentation + Q&A or 2 min. flash presentation) according to the scientific content of the contribution.

Proceedings

All short communication and full papers will be included in the conference proceedings.

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer (Scopus-indexed and EiCompendex-indexed).

Please note that short communication papers and full papers are submitted to RILEM copyright.

Guidelines to authors

Regular abstracts should be 300 words maximum. They should be prepared using the template available here. The deadline for regular abstract submission is given here.

A full paper should be 6 pages minimum to 8 pages maximum. They should be prepared using the template available here.

A short communication paper (2 to 4 pages) should also be prepared using the template available here.

Upon acceptance, the RILEM copyright form should also be provided by authors.

Authors whose abstracts have been accepted are required to submit their chosen scientific contribution document (as mentiond above) through their personal account by logging into the website  and completing their initial submission, which can be found in My Space > My Submission.

Authors are asked not to create a new submission.

Full papers, and short communications, and regular abstracts must be submitted in Word format as "supplementary data".

Guidelines for posters

The layout of posters is free, no poster template is imposed by the conference organisers.

Please prepare an A0 poster and bring the hard copy with you.