To ensure the successful submission of the camera-ready paper, please adhere to the following instructions.: –

• You have already received the reviewers' comments via a notification email. Please ensure that the reviewers’ suggestions are incorporated when preparing your camera-ready paper for the proceedings. The paper must not exceed six pages, including references, and the final submission deadline is the 30th.^th
• At least one author is required to register through Author Registration and present the selected paper at IEEE-ICICIS 2025 for it to be eligible for inclusion in IEEE Xplore. Each registration permits ONE (01) participant to attend the conference. Co-authors who wish to attend must register separately under the appropriate registration category.
• Please retain proof of payment, as it may be requested during the process. Additionally, ensure that the similarity index of your paper is below 10%, verified using standard plagiarism-checking software such as Turnitin. Papers with a similarity index above 10% will not be included in the conference proceedings.
• Authors must strictly follow the IEEE Template available at IEEE Publishing Templates for camera-ready submissions. Papers that do not adhere to these requirements will not be considered for submission to IEEE Xplore.
• Please make sure that the similarity index of your paper is below 10%, using standard plagiarism-checking software (e.g., Turnitin), before submitting the camera-ready paper from your end to confirm the submission of the paper to IEEE Xplore. If the similarity index is more than 10%, then your paper will not be included in the conference proceedings.
• The camera-ready paper and e-copyright transfer form should be submitted via Microsoft CMT for the IEEE-ICICIS 2025 conference.
• https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
• If the camera-ready papers do not meet these requirements then, it will not be submitted for further consideration to IEEE Xplore.
• You should submit your camera-ready paper and e-copyright transfer form on Microsoft CMT for IEEE-ICICIS 2025 conference.

Guidelines for Authors to prepare the Camera-ready submission.

• Open the Microsoft CMT portal on your browser and find your submitted paper (See Sample Image 1 given below).
• First, click on the create camera ready submission and upload the final pdf.

• Kindly refer to the LaTex/Word template provided here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
• After that, click on Submit IEEE Copyright The next page will open as shown in sample image below.
• After that, click on here as shown in image 2 (i.e., Click here to redirect to the IEEE Copyright Web Site). Then it will redirect to the IEEE Copyright Web Site and fill out the copyright form and download it in the pdf format. Then, upload the same pdf on CMT as shown in below image 2.

Instructions for Authors to create Final PDF for IEEE-ICICIS 2025 conference submission

• Prior to the Final Submission, the pdf file should be checked through PDF eXpress (https://ieee-pdf-express.org/). If you generated a pdf from Latex, then again, you have to check it through PDF eXpress.

The instructions for IEEE PDF eXpress are:

1. Creating your PDF eXpress Account (New user on PDF eXpress)

2. Log in to the IEEE PDF eXpress site https://ieee-pdf-express.org/

3. First create the account on IEEE PDF eXpress site (if no account created before). Select create an account in link https://ieee-pdf-express.org/ or directly click on https://ieee-pdf-express.org/account/signup

4. Enter the following:

• 64118X for the Conference ID
• your email address
• a password

5. Continue to enter information as prompted.

6. An Online confirmation will be displayed, and an email confirmation will be sent verifying your account setup.

7. After Verification, login to your IEEE PDF eXpress account by entering the Conference ID, email address, and password. (Login by entering Conference ID (64118X), email address and password).

8. Click Associate your account with the conference (if you have IEEE Pdf Express Account). (Sample image 4)

9. Fill up the information needed for the user profile and submit once completed.

10. Go to the Dashboard and create the new title. (Sample image 5)

11. Click create new title for your paper. (Sample image 6)

12. Enter the paper title and continue. (Sample image 7)

13. Upload File. Can be in word/pdf format (if you generated by Latex). Click Continue once file chosen. (Sample image 8)

14. Click Continue again (Sample image 9).

15. Conversion will be in progress as shown in sample image 10 below (Word file will take a while to complete).

16. If successful, you will get this message (Sample image 11).

17. Click Download PDF ICON to download the pdf express verified file (Sample image 12).

18. Click Approve ICON to send the file to the publication chair (Sample image 13).

19. Finally, it completed.

20. After that, download this final pdf and upload the same on the CMT portal as the final camera ready paper.

NOTE: You may create a new title if you have more than one paper accepted for this conference or you can repeat the process if any change in the final paper.