Peer review declaration

All conference organisers/editors are required to declare details about their peer review. Therefore, please provide the following information: • Type of peer review: Single-blind / Double-blind / Triple-blind / Open / Other (please describe) All the submitted papers were sent to the two reviewers, in order to evaluate the novelty and originality of the works attempted by the authors . • Conference submission management system : Through conference email ( icpae2019@gmail.com ) • Number of submissions received : 176 • Number of submissions sent for review : 147 • Number of submissions accepted : 72 • Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100) : 48.97% • Average number of reviews per paper : Two • Total number of reviewers involved : 45 • Any additional info on review process : First, the plagiarism on the papers was verified with Turnitin. Plagiarism reports showed anything above 20% on the papers was rejected before they were sent to the reviewers. The papers containing below 20% plagiarism were sent to the reviewers to evaluate the originality of the work. Two reviewers were invited to review each paper and duration of the review process was 4 – 6 weeks. Based on the reviewers’ comments, the decisions on the papers were taken. • Contact person for queries (please include: name, affiliation, institutional email address) Dr.S. Harikrishnan, Kings Engineering College, Irungattukottai, Chennai, India. ramhkn@gmail.com & harikrishnan@kingsedu.ac.in