Submission Guidelines

COMPLETED RESEARCH – Springer LNCS Proceedings

The Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) is a series of computer science books published by Springer Science+Business Media (formerly Springer-Verlag) since 1973. The LNCS proceedings are always well-downloaded and read.

Accepted completed research papers (max. 16 pages) will be published in one of our two Springer LNCS IFIP proceedings: Electronic Government (EGOV) or Electronic Participation (EPART).

The Springer LNCS Electronic Government (EGOV) proceedings includes completed research papers from the following tracks:

• General eGovernment & eGovernance,
• Emerging Issues and Innovations,
• Smart Cities (Government, Districts, Communities & Regions),
• AI, Data Analytics and Automated Decision Making,
• Open Data: Social and Technical Aspects.

The Springer LNCS Electronic Participation (EPART) proceedings includes completed research papers from the following tracks:

• General eDemocracy & eParticipation,
• Digital Technologies and Sustainable Development,
• Governance, Digital Legislation, and Policy,
• Digital Society,
• Artificial Intelligence Governance and its Societal Challenges,
• Managing eGovernment Projects.

Template – Springer

The template and format guidelines for Springer LNCS IFIP EGOV or IFIP EPART proceedings (completed research) are available through this link: SPRINGER LNCS TEMPLATE

These guidelines should be followed when submitting the paper for review.

Prepare anonymous version for double-blind review: The first page should contain only the title, abstract, 3-5 keywords characterising the content of the paper and name of the track to which the paper is being submitted. The remaining pages should include the main body of the submission and all references, figures, tables, etc.

Author name(s) should not appear in the paper (including the abstract).
Eliminate references to your institutions, your sponsors, your unpublished work, and your published work if done in a way that identifies you as author. All author names must be inserted in the online submission form. Delete author and institution information from document properties.

Criteria for Completed Research Papers

Papers submitted in this category should deal with completed research. They should have both relevance and a strong focus on scientific rigor and may be a maximum of 16 pages. Papers in this section will be double blind reviewed by 3 reviewers for rigor, relevance, originality and clarity of presentation. Abstracts or incomplete papers will not be accepted.

Assessment criteria:

• Fit with track.
• Interesting/important problem.
• Clear motivation (why the problem is interesting theoretically and/or practically).
• Conceptual development and grounding in prior literature.
• Methodological adequacy (if relevant).
• Adequate list of references to related work and grounding theories.
• Interesting findings.
• Well structured and clearly written paper.
• Maximum length of paper: 16 pages in Springer LNCS format.

ONGOING RESEARCH, REFLECTION/VIEWPOINTS, WORKSHOPS, POSTERS 

To be updated.

PRACTITONER SUBMISSIONS

To be updated.

Relevance of the submissions will be evaluated by the track chairs. The following evaluation criteria will be considered:

• The relevance of the topic to the digital government field;
• The speaker’s expertise on the topic;
• The potential for the presentation to (1) stimulate discussions/reflections and debate and/or to (2) generate new and innovative ideas, and/or joint learning potential.

Please observe that practitioner submissions will not be published in the conference proceedings.