Presenters can use the following template for their slides. Using of this template is not mandatory. Contributed papers authors must upload the video (MP4 format) of their presentations within June 10th on EDAS. Video is mandatory to have the paper published on IEEExplorer.

Important Information

The Conference Proceedings will be included in IEEE Xplore Digital Library. All authors who have been accepted must register for the conference and attend the conference to present their paper. Authors who do not attend the conference to present their papers, or arrange for a co-author or knowledgeable colleague to present their paper in the absence of the primary author, will not have their paper published in IEEE Xplore, per IEEE policy. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a submission from distribution after the conference, including exclusion from IEEE Xplore, if the submission does not meet IEEE standards for scope and/or quality. Articles excluded from further distribution shall be archived by IEEE but shall not be indexed or appear on IEEE Xplore.

Generate an IEEE Xplore compatible manuscript using PDF Xpress

All final manuscripts must be generated using the PDF Xpress tool. To generate the IEEE Xplore compatible PDF file of your paper, follow these steps:

• Create your IEEE PDF eXpress account: link
• Conference ID: 48756X
• The first time you access the system, please follow the link to new user. Please note that in order to access the service, you need to allow the use of cookies from the PDF eXpress web site.

Once you have registered as a new user:
1. Upload the source file (containing your paper) for conversion.
2. Receive by e-mail the IEEE Xplore-compatible PDF of your paper.

Upload your Xplore compatible PDF manuscript to EDAS

• Log in at edas
• Select the “My Papers” tab
• Select the paper title you wish to upload the manuscript for to be directed to the paper record

Complete the electronic copyright form via EDAS

IEEE is enforcing strict copyright rules. For your convenience, the copyright form is made available electronically through EDAS. To access the copyright form, select the icon in the copyright column within your paper record.
*NO PAPER WILL BE PUBLISHED WITHOUT THE SUBMITTED COPYRIGHT FORM.

Upload your paper

Upload your paper directly to “Final Manuscript” by selecting the upload icon. Submissions are due by March 25, 2020.

Paper templates

For your convenience, the Style Manual and Conference Paper templates in various formats are available through the following links:

• Style Manual - CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD
• Paper Templates - CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

Accepted Papers will be submitted for publication to IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI/Compendex.
Using the IEEE template is mandatory, and any variation from the IEEE template may lead to immediate rejection of your paper by the system.

Travel Grants

Travel Grant rules for participants are available at this link

Publication of post-Conference papers

• Extended version of papers presented at the conference, which fall within the scope of the IEEE Industry Application Society (Technical Sponsor of IEEE Melecon 2020) may be submitted to the IEEE Transaction on Industry Application for publication. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications is the peer-reviewed IAS ‘journal of record’ and all papers presented in IAS Transactions have previously been presented at a technical conference. The technical sponsorship of IAS made Melecon 2020 elegible as IAS technical conference.
• Extended version of papers presented at the conference may be submitted for Publication on a Special Issue of IEEE Access entitled: Smart Technology for Society and Industry - best articles from IEEE MELECON 2020 and IEEE RTSI 2020 conferences.

Submission instruction will be given later.