31st FRUCT Conference: Registration

*PLEASE NOTE: This is registration page of FRUCT31 conferences. Authors registration deadline is April 1, 2022 (we recommend to register only AFTER you received the acceptance notification). Due to COVID-19 situation this conference will be organized in online format.

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

REGISTRATION

To be published in the FRUCT 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.

Please note that a person can be an author of maximum 3 full papers accepted to the conference. Also note that one registration fee is valid for up to 2 papers. If you have 3 accepted papers than make sure that at least one of your coauthors will register to the conference to present the third paper.

PUBLICATIONS

All submitted Full Papers will be peer reviewed by the technical committee. All submitted Full Papers will be peer reviewed by the technical committee. Accepted Full papers and extended abstracts are published in the proceeding of FRUCT conference (ISSN 2305-7254). All accepted Full Papers will be included to IEEE Xplore and DOAJ, and indexed by Scopus, ACM, Web of Science, RSCI/РИНЦ (as journal publication), DBLP, etc. The selected papers get invitations to publish extended papers in the partner journals, e.g., IJERTCS. The Full Papers section of the proceedings is included to Scimago Journal Rank, AMiner, and CORE. FRUCT has high rating in national systems, e.g., Finnish (JUFO=1, JufoID: 72707), Norwegian (NSD=1), Danish (BFI=1, ID: 8782540).
In addition, in case of successful presentation and recommendation by the session chair some papers will be invited to make free of charge publication of an extended version of the paper in IJERTCS journal (indexed by Scopus).

Please note that normally the conference doesn't provide certificates of participation, but if you need such a certificate please mention it in the Comment field of the registration form or send us email to info<at>fruct.org.

Fees:
RG-01: FREE - Individuals that have the personal FRUCT membership, if registered before April 1, 2022
RG-02: 150 EUR - Registration before April 1, 2022 for IEEE members OR representatives of FRUCT member teams
RG-03: 250 EUR - Early bird full registration, if registered before April 1, 2022
RG-04: 250 EUR - Registration for IEEE members OR representatives of FRUCT member teams
RG-05: 350 EUR - Full registration

If you want to register an accompanying person please use this link.

Description of registration and payment procedure

First fill the registration form in bottom of this page and press REGISTER. The system will redirect you to the bank secure page where you should enter the credit card details and press PAY. The system will notify you on a result of transaction. In case of refusal of the card authorization please repeat the payment procedure.

Please don’t register if you are not ready to make payment, as your registration will cancelled in 24h. If you are an author you can first SUBMIT your paper, wait for notification of acceptance and will still have a week for registration with early bird discounted fee.

You have two payment options:

1) online payment by the credit card (you are automatically transferred to the corresponding payment page after clicking "Registration" at the bottom of this page)

2) wired payment to the conference bank account (e.g., use this option if you need to add EU VAT number in the payment details) for details of the wired payment please send us email to info<at>fruct.org. Please note that in addition we might charge 24% VAT to the wired payments in Finland and EU, if you cannot provide the EU VAT number.

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People listed in the FRUCT Black List cannot take part in the event. The corresponding registrations will be automatically cancelled without refund.

Details:
Conference dates: 27-29 April 2022
Conference location: Helsinki, Finland
Short Paper submission deadline: 28 February 2022
Full Paper Submission deadline: 28 February 2022
Notification of acceptance date: 25 March 2022
Camera-ready submission deadline: 1 April 2022
Authors registration deadline: 1 April 2022
Demos/Posters submission deadline: 15 April 2022

VISA

Please account that citizens of many countries need to obtain visa for entrance Finland. Participants are responsible for completing all legal formalities regarding their visa. 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 Finland. If you need invitation letter please contact us by email at least a month before the conference.

If you need more time for visa and travel arrangements just notify us by email and submit your paper a month before the official deadline. Then your paper will be taken to the early-review procedure and you get the notification of acceptance one month earlier.

ACCOMMODATION

We don't offer centralized accommodation, as nowadays most people prefer to make own booking. So please use our VENUE page to find accommodation that best fits your expectations or just direct link to booking.com, including some good discounts on your reservations during the conference days.

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, or you can use online LaTeX template on OverLeaf service. 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.

REGISTRATION (if you have registration already, but haven’t paid the fee, please click here to do it now)