Submission of papers

The conference will accept paper submissions in the following areas:

Demonstrators and Products Tracks

PACT 2022 has made provision for display and demonstration of working software and hardware that are relevant to African manufacturing base and learning environment. We will also consider working prototypes from university students, staff and industry.

Paper Submissions

Original research papers containing new research findings which have not been submitted concurrently to any other publication outlets such as conferences, Journals and books are sought from authors. Full length papers must be limited to six A4 single-line spacing pages (10 point font size minimum) and formatted following the Springer conference paper format. Student papers are also limited to between three and four A4 single-line spacing pages.

PACT has adopted the Springer referencing format for all its publications. Paper submission is through Easy Chair via the conference site at PACT 2022 Easy Chair Submission

Authors should access Easy Chair through the conference site for all submissions and by all means try not to email papers directly to Track or Conference Chair persons as this makes reviewing of your papers messy and difficult. All papers submitted to the conference will be reviewed by at least two international reviewers.

Papers which are registered and presented during the conference will be included in the conference proceedings with an ISBN to facilitate access and referencing.

Post Conference Publications

All papers accepted and presented at the conference will be submitted to Compendex and SCOPUS for indexing. Reviewed papers which meet the Springer requirements and presented during the conference will be forwarded to Springer for consideration for inclusion in the Springer Digital Repository. Papers will also be submitted to iqproceedings.org for inclusion in their conferences database for worldwide access and indexing.

Despite the above undertaking, authors whose papers are found to be technically relevant and suitable as possible journal publications will be invited to extend their PACT conference papers to full length journal papers of not less than 12 pages. Such extensions must ensure that the extended paper is clearly significantly different in contents from the paper presented during the conference. They will be further reviewed, and if the extended papers are accepted by the Journals, they will be included in special 2022/2023 issues of:

Workshops/Tutorials

A number of submissions have been accepted for workshop and tutorial presentations. They include:

• Title:
• Abstract:
• Facilitator(s):
• Biography:

Keynotes

• Title: Intelligent Information Technologies for Sustainable Development in Africa
  Speaker(s): Prof. Adenike Osofisan, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
  Abstract: Intelligent Information Technologies are resource efficient technologies developed to address the needs of the society and the industries. They have been developed to find solutions to very pressing needs of today and the nearest future. These needs include those of growing population with rising demands for food, goods and services in the face of shortage of raw materials, energy and of climate change as well as security challenges. This keynote will address research that have been carried out to ameliorate these pressing needs in the area of Information Technologies such as: Smart Farming Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud and Remote Computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Self-Driving Vehicles, Drones, Blockchain and so on. It will conclude with how these technologies can be used for sustainable development in Africa and Nigeria in particular, as well as future directions of research in these technologies.
  Biography: Professor Adenike Osofisan is a Professor of Computer Science, specialising in data mining and knowledge management. She holds a B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science, as well as an MBA in Finance and Accounts. She attended the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife) in 1972 and proceeded to Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta for her Master’s degree. She is the first female Ph.D. holder in Computer Science and the first female Professor in Computer Science in Sub-Saharan Africa. Osofisan began her lecturing career at The Polytechnic, Ibadan in 1979. She rose to become the dean of the Faculty of Science of the Polytechnic in 1995. She joined the University of Ibadan in 1999 and immediately began to serve as the acting Head of Department of Computer Science. In 2003, she became an Associate Professor and in 2006, a Full Professor. In 2012, she became the pioneer Director of the University of Ibadan School of Business. Osofisan was among the 22 women inducted into the Nigerian Women Hall of Fame on the 10th of June 2019 in Abuja. She was elected as the First Female Provost Nigeria Computer Society College of Fellows in July 2017. In 2005, she became the first female President and Chairman of Council, Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN). She was the pioneer President of Nigerian Women in Information Technology (IT) in 2003 and the Chairperson of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) Education Committee in 1995. Osofisan is Fellow and Life Member, NCS and has served on the National Executive Council of NCS for ten years, four (4) as Chairman Credentials Committee, another four (4) as Chairman Education Committee and two (2) as Chairman of the Publication Committee. She is a pioneer member of the Board of Trustees of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association. She seats on various boards in and outside Nigeria. Indeed, she is a pioneer and role model in the field of Computer Science. Osofisan is a recipient of several fellowships and over twenty national and international prizes for the development of Computer Science Education in Nigeria. She has taught Computer Science at the University level for well over two decades and has successfully supervised many PhD candidates in her discipline. She has attended many conferences, seminars and workshops at national and international levels presenting papers of her various research works. She has authored books and publications in national and international journals and conference proceedings.
• Title: ________
  Speaker(s):
  Abstract: _________
  Biography: _________.

Updates:

• The conference proceedings shall be publicly made available here.
• The conference registration form can be downloaded from here.
• The conference registration fees, as indicated in the conference flyer, are as follows:

1. Nigerian Delegates: N30,000
2. African Delegates: $200
3. Non-African Delegates: $300
4. Students: 50% Discount

For information on visa application and lodging for the conference, please see below:

1. Visa Application

   For information on applying for visa, click here
   

2. Hotels and Lodging

   Hotels and Lodging around Lead City University Ibadan that are homely and conducive with proximity to conference venue and less stress for our visitors are suggested. For more Information click here

3. Transportation

   Transport to the conference venue can be sought through the following transport providers' app: Bolt and Uber.
   To use these providers, you will need to create an account to register your contact details and your payment method (PayPal or credit card) for the ride. Once that is done, head over to the website or app to order the ride.
   Set the pickup location and destination on the app.
   Destination is Lead City University, Ibadan.
   Starting from midnight (00:00 hrs) of Tuesday, 20 September 2022, the committee helplines (+234 803 360 0124) will be open for support.

• Papers in computer science, networking, software, sensors may go into the Journal "Software Networking" at https://www.riverpublishers.com/journal.php?j=JSN/2016/1/undefine
• The conference flyer is now available here.
• The best papers in "IoT and Sensors" will be published in the Journal: Remote Sensing (Guest Editor: Johnson Agbinya), Special Issue: "The Internet of Things (IoT) in Remote Sensing: Opportunities and Challenges".
• It is planned to publish the proceedings with Springer in their Communications in Computer and Information Science series (final approval pending).
• Best papers on Wireless Communication (4G, 5G, WMN, Pico, etc) from PACT 2021, if they are many, will be shortlisted as book chapters in a new book on telecommunication to be published by River Publishers. Chapters will be of lengths 12 pages or more. The extended length book chapters need to be re-written in tutorial form by the authors on the topic of such papers.

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