01. The deadline to submit paper abstracts is April 29th, 2016. Papers should be submitted by that date through the application that is available on the Congress website www.congresodevialidad.org.ar. All the authors need to be pre-registered (payment of the registration fee is not required) before submitting papers.
02. Submitted papers have to be original and unpublished, i.e., papers that have not been published nor presented, at local or international level, at Congresses, Symposiums, Meetings, etc., that were held before the opening date of the XVII Argentine Congress on Road Administration and Traffic.
03. As an exception, the Organizing Committee may accept, at its own discretion, already published papers containing new relevant information and which are considered of significant interest.
04. Submitted materials should be papers and may include reports, communications, studies, experiences or work recommendations.
05. Paper authors expressly authorize the Organizing Committee of the XVII Argentine Congress on Road Administration and Traffic to publish the papers submitted to the Congress in proprietary issues of the Asociación Argentina de Carreteras with no need for further consent.
06. Papers submitted to the Congress may only be reproduced, either in part or in whole, by the authors with the explicit mention that they have been submitted to the XVII Argentine Congress on Road Administration and Traffic.
07. It is hereby established that the submission of a paper implies that its author or authors have completely agreed to the aforementioned terms and conditions without further ado.
08. The Organizing Committee, through its Technical Committee, will assess the papers to check compliance with each of the above requirements, as well as their content to proceed with the relevant selection process. Failure to comply with the submission terms and deadlines will be enough grounds for rejection with no need for further notice.
09. The Technical Coordination reserves the right to reject abstracts and or final papers.
10. Papers, which abstracts have been accepted, should be submitted by July 18th, 2016 through the same Web page application used for the abstracts.
11. Once the papers have been accepted, the Organizing Committee will select and assign them to the corresponding sessions of the Specific Areas, where they will be presented and discussed. This decision will be duly communicated to the paper author(s). It is an essential requirement that authors whose papers have been selected for presentation in the Specific Areas to be registered in the Congress by October 1st, 2016.
12. All accepted papers will be published in a CD to be delivered to every participant during the Congress.
These rules were updated at October 20th, 2015. |
