Review Process
By submitting a paper to FETiCON 2024, the authors agree to the review process and understand that papers are processed by the CMT system to match each manuscript to the best possible area chairs and reviewers.
Confidentiality
The review process of FETiCON 2024 is confidential. Reviewers are volunteers, not part of the FETiCON 2024 organization, and their efforts are greatly appreciated. The practice of keeping all information confidential during the review is part of the standard communication to all reviewers. Misuse of confidential information is a severe professional failure and appropriate measures will be taken when brought to the attention of FETiCON 2024 organizers. It should be noted, however, that the organizers of FETiCON 2024 are not and cannot be held responsible for the consequences when reviewers break confidentiality.
Conflict Responsibilities
It is the primary author’s responsibility to ensure that all authors on their paper have registered their institutional conflicts into CMT3 (see details under Domain Conflicts below). If a paper is found to have an undeclared or incorrect institutional conflict, the paper may be summarily rejected. To avoid undeclared conflicts, the author list is considered to be final after the submission deadline, and no changes are allowed for accepted papers.
Double Blind Review
FETiCON 2024 reviewing is double-blind, in that authors do not know the names of the area chairs/reviewers of their papers, and the area chairs/reviewers cannot, beyond a reasonable doubt, infer the names of the authors from the submission and the additional material. Avoid providing information that may identify the authors in the acknowledgements (e.g., co-workers and grant IDs) and in the supplemental material (e.g., titles in the movies, or attached papers). Avoid providing links to websites that identify the authors. Violation of any of these guidelines may lead to rejection without review. If you need to cite a different paper of yours that is being submitted concurrently to FETiCON 2024, the authors should (1) cite these papers; (2) argue in the body of your paper why your FETiCON 2024 paper is non trivially different from these concurrent submissions; and (3) include anonymized versions of those papers in the supplemental material.
Plagiarism Check
Plagiarism consists of appropriating the words or results of another, without credit. We will be actively checking for plagiarism. If the similarity index of a paper is found to be above 25%, the paper shall be returned to the author to rework but a similarity index above 45% will be rejected outrightly.
Publication
Selected Papers from FETiCON 2024 will be recommended for submission to the Nigerian Journal of Technological Development (NJTD), a Scopus indexed journal hosted by the Faculty of Engineering and Technology, University of Ilorin.