Submission Guidelines
Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published.
All submissions should be written in English (in Two-Column IEEE Conference Format).
Papers should be submitted through EDAS: https://edas.info/N34965
- Full paper: 8 pages
- Short paper and work-in-progress paper: 4 pages
- Poster & Demo paper: 2 pages
Double-Blind Review
Submissions must be anonymous. We follow a relaxed double-blind peer review process: authors are allowed to share their work on platforms such as arXiv and present it publicly. However, authors should not mention their own name or affiliation in the submission, or include obvious references that reveal their identity. A reviewer who has not previously encountered the work should be able to read the submission without learning the authors’ identities. No modifications to the author list on a paper can be made after submission.
If your work is not yet available online (e.g., on arXiv), we recommend waiting until after the notification of acceptance before posting it publicly.
For any questions regarding the double-blind policy, please contact the general co-chairs of BRAINS 2026.
Use of Generative AI and LLMs
Guidelines for authors
Authors must adhere to the IEEE policies (see Submission Publication Policies – IEEE Author Center Conferences, in particular section “Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Generated Text”).
Authors must ensure that all AI-generated content is accurate and supported by appropriate evidence. Submissions containing hallucinated citations, including references to non-existent or fabricated works, falsified or fabricated data, experiments, or results, or other unsupported claims presented as fact, will be desk-rejected.
Guidelines for reviewers
To protect the integrity and confidentiality of the peer-review process, reviewers must not upload any part of a submitted manuscript to public generative AI tools or LLM services. Reviewers who choose to use AI tools to assist in drafting their reviews (for example, for grammar checking of their own text) may do so only if they refrain from including any content from the submission itself.
Best paper awards
Two best paper awards will be delivered:
- Best Full Paper Award
- Best Student Paper Award (conditioned to the papers quality)
The best technical papers presented at the conference will be invited to submit an extended version for fast-track review in the ACM DLT journal (Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice).