The 31st Conference of the Open Innovations Association FRUCT is co-organized by FRUCT Association and IEEE Finland Section. The conference will be held in Helsinki (Finland) on 27-29 April 2022.
Despite COVID-19, we keep on collecting submissions and plan to hold FRUCT as planned. The conference will be organized in online format. Please don't forget to send 8-10 min video of your presentation to info@fruct.org by April 10, 2021 at latest. Video files over 20Mb better to upload to google drive, dropbox, or other repository. The video shall at least present your slides with audio track of the talk. The preferred formats for your video are MP4 and WMV. If you use MS PowerPoint you might use instructions from the following link to prepare your video .We welcome you to submit your papers to FRUCT31.
The conference sessions for online participants are split into 2 parts:
1. Self-watching of presentations on Youtube (the corresponding playlists and links will be published in the conference program). Let’s take advantage of distant participation - you can invite colleagues to watch videos and the online session. I also ask you to subscribe to FRUCT youtube channel – we need to get 1000 subscribers to be allowed make video streaming in the future.
2. Online questions and answers session held in Zoom. As some conference participants report issues with Internet connection quality we recommend to held Zoom session in Audio only mode (without video). Please prepare your questions/comments to the authors and use this time to discuss the presented works.
Overview of FRUCT
FRUCT is a large Pan-European cooperation framework that promotes open innovations of academia and industry. FRUCT conference is a high-quality scientific event for meeting academia and business people and setting projects. The average conference is attended by over 150 participants representing 30+ member organizations and guests from other organizations. Participants comes from over 20 countries, including both the representatives from academia and industry.
The conference attracts most active and talented students to present their R&D projects, meet people alike, create new teams, and find employers and investors. The conference invites the world-class academic and industrial experts to lecture on the hottest topics. Traditionally the program consists of FRUCT work groups meetings and intensive (half or full day) technology trainings (Tu) and the last 3 days (We-Fr) are the main conference days.
FRUCT conferences are organized every half a year, which is the reason for submission and acceptance notification deadlines be so close to the conference dates. If you need more time for visa and travel arrangements just notify us by email and submit your paper following the Early bird submission deadline. Then your paper will be taken to the early-review procedure and you get the notification of acceptance one month earlier.
Traditionally FRUCT pays a lot of attention to the Open Source and supports the corresponding activities and communities. The conference Demo session will include a lot of demos. The conference is supported by the local mobile Linux community and we welcome all mobile Linux and other apps developer to attend this event.
We welcome everybody to submit papers and take part in the conference, share your research and join the FRUCT Association. Thanks to sponsors we traditionally have low registration fee and various discounts can be applied. Please take early registration to get the best fee and most advantages of your participation in the conference.
All conference papers and abstracts will be published Open Access in FRUCT proceeding at no additional cost .
We welcome patrons/sponsors to join the conference team. Please refer to the overview of patrons' packages and contact us in case of any questions and proposals.
All submitted papers will be peer reviewed by the Technical Committee. Please download the paper templates for MS Word and LaTeX, or you can use online LaTeX template on OverLeaf service. Please note the following major changes in the templates: The size of page should be Letter (21.59 cm × 27.94 cm). If you are using Word margins must be: top - 1.9 cm, bottom - 1.6 cm, left - 1.57 cm and right - 1.57 cm. Please note that all Full Paper submissions shall have at least 6 full pages and the last page cannot contain only Acknowledgments and References (at least some text of the main paper, e.g., part of Conclusions, shall be on page 6).
The list of conference topics (we welcome you to propose new R&D topics):
All conference papers and abstracts will be published Open Access in FRUCT proceeding (available for free download from FRUCT proceedings catalog). In addition Full papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xploreand submitted for indexing to Scopus, WoS, ACM, DBLP, RSCI/РИНЦ (as journal publication), Google Scholar, etc. Proceedings of FRUCT conference Full Papers are included into Scimago Journal Rank, AMiner, and CORE. The FRUCT proceedings are included to DOAJ.
The selected papers get invitations to publish extended papers in the partner journals. For example, in case of successful presentation and recommendation by the session chair some papers will be invited to make free of charge publication of an extended version of the paper in IJERTCS journal (indexed by Scopus).
FRUCT conference is a recognized high quality scientific event. FRUCT has good rating in national systems, e.g., Finnish (JUFO=1, JufoID: 72707), Norwegian (NSD=1), Danish (BFI=1, ID: 8782540).
N.B. Please note that we cannot guaranty indexation in Scopus for Short Papers and papers from WiP section. If Scopus indexing is mandatory for you then make sure that your paper is accepted as Full Paper. Authors of all accepted papers must register to the conference, pay registration fee by author's deadline and present paper at the conference, as otherwise the paper will get technical reject.
Authors of top Short or Work in Progress papers get invite to make free of charge extended versions of the paper in the partner journal, which is included in all major indexes.
Apr 27
2022
Apr 29
2022
Draft paper submission deadline
Draft Paper Acceptance Notification
Final Paper Deadline
Registration deadline
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