Full text is only required for the paper category. Papers should be prepared using Springer’s template which is available on the ECIL’s website, should not exceed 12 pages and should besubmitted electronically via the conference management system. ECIL’s writing guidelines should be followed. Authors must declare the use of generative AI tools in the manuscript preparation process upon submission of the paper.

ECIL will not accept manuscripts that have been generated fully or in part by generative AI tools. Authors remain fully responsible for the originality and intellectual contribution of their work. AI tools may only be used for limited purposes, such as improving readability, grammar, punctuation, or style, and such use must be explicitly disclosed in the manuscript, specifying the tools and the ways in which they were applied. Undisclosed use of AI tools may lead to the removal of the manuscript from the editorial process.    

After the second cycle of peer-review, selected papers will be published in the proceedings book.  ECIL’s Proceedings Books are  published by Springer (agreement with the publisher is on yearly basis) under CCIS (Communications in Computer and Information Science) series. Books that appear in CCIS series are submitted for indexing to Thomson Reuter’s Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Scopus and other indexes on a yearly basis by the publisher.