Submission
Instructions for Authors
La Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá (UTP), Centro Regional de Veraguas, invites the national and international scientific community to submit original, unpublished manuscripts to WICI-UTP ’2025, the official workshop of COICIT 2025.
During WICI-UTPVE 2025, the 10 most outstanding papers will be selected for submission, in extended version, to a special volume of the I+D Tecnológico Journal of UTP, recognized as the institution’s most prestigious scientific journal. To be accepted, these articles must comply with the journal’s editorial guidelines and review process.
The papers that are not published in the journal will be part of the WICI 2025 Memory, in chapter format, available in the institutional repository of the UTP.
Manuscript Guidelines
- Recommended: 6 pages (Download I+D Word template).
- Languages: Spanish or English. Abstracts and keywords in both.
- Submission via Microsoft CMT.
- Double-blind review by at least 2 Scientific Committee members.
- Manuscript Guidelines
- The submission has not been previously published nor submitted elsewhere (or this is explained in the Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.
- URLs are provided for references wherever possible.
- The text is single-spaced; 12-point font; italics instead of underlining (except for URLs); and all illustrations/figures/tables appear in-place within the text.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the journal template (download template).
Submission Checklist:

Important Dates
- Submission Deadline:September 1, 2025September 15, 2025
- Acceptance Notification: September 29, 2025
- Camera-Ready: October 3, 2025
- Author Registration: October 8, 2025
- Workshop Date: October 16, 2025
Venue
The workshop will take place at the Salón Galo Chang, UTP Veraguas, both onsite and virtually.
Where and How to Submit
Manuscript submission will be done exclusively through the Microsoft CMT platform. Please create an account (if you do not already have one) and follow the submission steps. The submission link will be available here soon.
- Register or log in at the official platform: Microsoft CMT
- Access the submission portal here: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/WICI2025 (Active link)
- Follow the instructions and complete your submission according to the author guidelines.
Microsoft CMT Acknowledgment
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.
Contact
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