What we are looking for

Completed work with results a reviewer can check. Papers that report a method, a system, a measurement campaign or an evaluation, and that say plainly what was built, what was measured and where the limits are.

SEA 2027 covers communications and the Internet of Things, industrial electronics and robotics, cybersecurity, smart health, ocean sciences and blue technologies, sustainable energy, and aerospace. The ocean and coastal track is the reason the conference is sited in Aqaba: Jordan’s coastline is 27 kilometres long, and the questions that come with it — reef monitoring, port engineering, desalination, coastal resilience — are engineering questions.

Work that sits between tracks is welcome. Submit to the closest fit and say so in the abstract; the technical programme chairs move papers between tracks when the reviewing pool is better elsewhere.

All seven tracks in detail Author kit

Paper submission closes 15 Jan 2027 · 23:59 AoE

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Anywhere on Earth (UTC−12). Submissions are handled in EDAS.

One deadline, one system

There is no separate abstract deadline. Register the paper in EDAS and upload the full PDF by 15 January 2027.

Seven tracks

Pick the track before you write the abstract.

Each track is reviewed by its own committee. The complete topic list for every track is on the tracks page — those lists are indicative, not exhaustive.

All topics

Track 01: Communication, Networking, Antennas and Internet of Things — 10 listed topics
Track 02: Industrial Electronics, Intelligent Systems, Robotics, and Automation — 10 listed topics
Track 03: Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Trustworthy Technologies — 11 listed topics
Track 04: Smart Health and Biomedical Engineering — 10 listed topics
Track 05 · Signature: Ocean Sciences, Blue Technologies, and Coastal Engineering — 11 listed topics
Track 06: Sustainable Energy and Smart Grids — 10 listed topics
Track 07: Aerospace, Aviation, and Space Technologies — 10 listed topics

Review and publication

Papers are submitted through EDAS and peer reviewed by the technical programme committee of the track they are submitted to. Decisions — accept, accept with revision, or reject — are returned with the full reviewer reports on 1 March 2027.

IEEE SEA 2027 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE. Accepted and presented papers are submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore, subject to IEEE’s quality and scope review.

Two conditions have to hold for a paper to reach IEEE Xplore: it must be accepted after review, and it must be presented at the conference by an author or an approved proxy. Inclusion is then subject to IEEE’s own quality and scope review, which the organisers do not control. Nothing is claimed here about any other index or database; where a paper appears beyond IEEE Xplore is a matter for those providers.

Every published paper needs a signed IEEE publication agreement. The electronic copyright form (eCF) is completed at the camera-ready stage, from inside EDAS, by 1 April 2027.

Sponsorship

Technically co-sponsored

IEEE is the technical co-sponsor of SEA 2027. The conference is organised by Aqaba University of Technology with the IEEE Jordan Section; IEEE carries no financial involvement in it.

Presented, not just accepted

A paper that is accepted but not presented is withdrawn from the IEEE Xplore submission. See the no-show policy below.

Before you submit

Submission requirements, in short.

The author kit carries the full version with worked examples. This is the summary a returning IEEE author needs.

Paper type: Full paper, in English, reporting original work that is not published and not under review anywhere else.
Template: The current IEEE two-column conference template, unmodified — \documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran} for LaTeX, or the Word conference template. Two columns throughout, 10 pt body text.
Page size: IEEE publishes both a US Letter (8.5 × 11 in) and an A4 variant of the template. Which one SEA 2027 requires is confirmed in the author kit before submissions open. Whichever you use, do not change its margins.
Page limit: IEEE conferences typically set six pages in final form, with a small number of additional pages accepted at an over-length charge. SEA 2027’s own limit and over-length charge are not yet fixed — they will be published in the author kit and here before submissions open. Do not write to the typical figure and assume.
Abstract: One self-contained paragraph, 150–250 words, with no references, footnotes, equations or undefined abbreviations.
Index terms: Four to six terms, alphabetical, drawn from the IEEE Thesaurus and Taxonomy. They are what makes the paper findable in IEEE Xplore.
References: IEEE style — numbered in square brackets in order of first appearance, listed in that same order, with DOIs where they exist.
File format: PDF only. All fonts embedded and subsetted; Type 3 bitmap fonts are rejected. No encryption, no password protection, no annotations or forms.
PDF validation: Camera-ready PDFs must pass IEEE PDF eXpress, which either checks a PDF you made or converts your source into an Xplore-compatible one. Missing embedded fonts is the most common failure.
Camera-ready: No page numbers, no headers, no footers — IEEE paginates the proceedings. The IEEE copyright notice goes bottom-left of page one; the eCF issues the exact string to use.
Authors: Every author must be entered in EDAS, not only in the PDF, and the author list and title in EDAS must match the camera-ready paper exactly.

IEEE Conference ID for PDF eXpress

PDF eXpress needs the conference’s numeric IEEE Conference ID before you can create an account for SEA 2027. It is published here and in the author kit as soon as IEEE issues it.

Expected: Before the camera-ready deadline, 1 April 2027

Review model and length limit

Whether review is single- or double-blind, and the conference’s own page limit and over-length charge, are set by the technical programme committee and published in the author kit.

Expected: Ahead of submissions opening

Important dates

Everything between here and Aqaba.

All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (UTC−12). Extensions, if any, are announced on this page and by email to registered authors.

Registration

15 January 2027

Paper submission deadline

Full papers submitted through EDAS. No submissions are accepted after this date.
1 March 2027

Review decision notification

Accept, accept-with-revision or reject, with the full reviewer reports.
1 April 2027

Final (camera-ready) submission

IEEE PDF eXpress–compliant PDF plus the signed IEEE electronic copyright form.
5 April 2027

Author registration deadline

At least one author of every accepted paper must complete a full author registration by this date for the paper to be published.
5 April 2027

Attendee registration deadline

Standard-rate registration for delegates who are not presenting a paper.
5–7 May 2027

Conference

Three days in Aqaba, on the Red Sea. Hybrid — every session is streamed.

Policies

The rules that decide whether a paper is published.

These are IEEE policies as they apply to a technically co-sponsored conference. None of them is negotiable after the fact, so read them before you submit rather than after acceptance.

Original and unpublished work

A submission must be the authors’ own original work, not previously published, and not under review at another conference or journal. Earlier related work by the same authors must be cited and the new contribution stated. Substantial overlap with an already published paper is self-plagiarism and is handled as misconduct.

Plagiarism and IEEE CrossCheck

Submissions are screened with IEEE CrossCheck, which compares the text against published literature and the web. Plagiarism and self-plagiarism are misconduct under the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Operations Manual. Sanctions range from rejection to a multi-year ban on publishing with IEEE and a notice attached to the record in IEEE Xplore.

No dual or duplicate submission

Submitting the same work to SEA 2027 and to another venue at the same time is prohibited. If the work is under review elsewhere, do not submit it here until that review has concluded. Detected dual submissions are rejected without review and may carry a submission ban.

Author registration

At least one author of every accepted paper must complete a full author registration — the non-student author rate — by 5 April 2027 for the paper to appear in the programme and to be submitted to IEEE Xplore. A student registration does not satisfy this requirement. How many papers one registration covers, and the fee for each additional paper, are stated on the registration page.

No-show policy

An accepted paper that appears in the final programme but is not presented — by an author or an approved proxy, in person or through the conference’s remote presentation arrangement — is withdrawn from the IEEE Xplore submission. Copyright remains with IEEE and the paper may still appear in the attendee proceedings. Exceptions are made only by the technical programme chair, for events outside the authors’ control.

Presentation and the hybrid format

Every session is streamed. Authors unable to travel may present remotely. Remote presentation counts as presentation for the purposes of the no-show policy. Session times are in Arabia Standard Time (UTC+3).

Ethics

Work involving people or clinical data

Papers reporting studies with human participants, patient data or animal subjects must name the approving ethics body and the consent arrangement in the paper. Reviewers are asked to check for it.

Questions

Ask before you assume

Anything the author kit does not answer goes to info@ieeesea.net. Queries about a specific submission are faster through EDAS, which routes them to the right track chair.

How to submit

Two links do all the work.

Read the author kit first — it is the difference between one submission and three. The EDAS track link is published here the day submissions open.

Step one

The author kit

Templates, the page limit, the PDF eXpress walkthrough, the copyright form and the camera-ready checklist — everything summarised above, in full.

Open the author kit

Step two

Submit through EDAS

Register the paper in EDAS — title, abstract, topics and the full author list — then upload the PDF. EDAS runs its own format and page checks at upload and flags what it does not like.

EDAS — opens when submissions open

The direct track link is issued when SEA 2027 is registered in EDAS. Until then there is nothing to click, so nothing is linked.

Submissions are not open yet

The EDAS track link for SEA 2027 is published on this page and emailed to anyone who has contacted the organisers. The deadline of 15 January 2027 holds regardless of when the system opens.

Expected: Ahead of the 15 January 2027 deadline

Questions in the meantime: info@ieeesea.net.

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