Abstract and Paper Submission

The proposal should include the motivations, research paper objective, methodology, data sources and  expected outcome. The organising committee will evaluate the proposals and shortlist the accepted proposals by 1^st October 2022. On approval of the proposal the applicants will be required to submit their full research papers in 8000-12000 words in English by 16^th December 2022. Word limit should be strictly adhered to.

The final acceptance of full papers will be notified to applicants by 16^th January 2023.

All parties involved in the research must adhere to certain standards of ethical behaviour.

Authors should ensure that:

a) The paper is based on research work that is original. Anything that compromises originality of the work should be avoided. The paper must avoid plagiarism in all and any form;

b) it does not include content that is copied or reproduced from other works without appropriate attribution;

c) the paper discloses the source of all data used.

d) the paper is fully referenced, cited or quoted where works of others are used;

e) the paper is not submitted for review /publication, in whole or in part, elsewhere concurrently while the paper is submitted for consideration as part of this conference.

Selected presenters will be required to present their papers at the conference. There will be two Best Paper Awards given at the conference. The selection of the awards will be carried out by the expert committee comprising of academics and IBBI professionals.

After the conference, the authors are expected to submit a final paper that gives due consideration to all comments and feedback received during the conference by 17^th March, 2023. The final set of selected papers will be either hosted in the IBBI website or published as a book. Presenters, if they so wish, would be free to get the work published in any journal with appropriate citation.