The Works in Progress in Embedded Computing Journal (WiPiEC) is an international, peer-reviewed, Diamond Open Access scientific journal dedicated to the publication of original research, innovative engineering solutions, and emerging developments in embedded computing and related disciplines. The journal provides an international forum for researchers, engineers, educators, and industry professionals to disseminate scientific knowledge, exchange ideas, and promote collaboration across academia and industry.
WiPiEC was established to support the dissemination of high-quality research at all stages of scientific development. In addition to publishing mature research contributions, the journal encourages the publication of well-founded works in progress that present innovative concepts, prototype implementations, preliminary validation, and promising research directions with clear scientific merit.
The journal operates under the principles of editorial independence, rigorous peer review, research integrity, transparency, and openness. All editorial decisions are based exclusively on scientific quality, originality, methodological soundness, and relevance to the journal's scope.
As a Diamond Open Access journal, WiPiEC provides immediate and unrestricted access to all published content without charging submission fees, article processing charges (APCs), publication fees, or subscription fees. The journal believes that unrestricted access to scientific knowledge accelerates innovation, increases research visibility, promotes international collaboration, and benefits both the scientific community and society.
WiPiEC continuously develops its editorial practices in accordance with internationally recognized standards for scholarly publishing and supports responsible research communication through ethical editorial policies, transparent publication procedures, and long-term preservation of scientific content.
Aims and Scope
Journal History
Publishers
Journal Identification
Publication Frequency
Article types
Open Access
Copyright and Licensing
Indexing and Abstracting
Digital Preservation and Archiving
Quality Assurance
Advertisement Policy
Commitment to Excellence
WiPiEC publishes original scientific and technical contributions in embedded computing, computer engineering, electrical engineering, and interdisciplinary research areas where embedded intelligence, digital technologies, and intelligent systems play a significant role.
The journal welcomes theoretical, experimental, and applied research that advances the design, implementation, evaluation, and application of embedded computing technologies.
The primary scientific focus of the journal includes:
The journal also welcomes interdisciplinary research combining embedded computing with medicine, transportation, agriculture, environmental monitoring, communications, manufacturing, security, education, or other engineering and scientific disciplines.
WiPiEC publishes research that contributes to scientific understanding, technological innovation, engineering practice, or educational advancement. Both fundamental research and practical engineering solutions are considered, provided they demonstrate originality, scientific rigor, and relevance to the journal's readership.
Authors who are uncertain whether their work falls within the journal's scope are encouraged to contact the Editorial Office before submission.
The Works in Progress in Embedded Computing Journal (WiPiEC) was established in 2015 to provide a publication platform for contributions presented during the Work in Progress sessions of international conferences dedicated to embedded computing and related technologies.
During its initial years, the journal primarily served participants of scientific events organized within the Mediterranean Excellence in Computing and Ontology (MECOnet) community, including the Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO), the International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things (CPS&IoT), and the Summer School on Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things (SSCPS&IoT).
From 2015 until 2022, WiPiEC was distributed primarily within the conference community and among members of the organizing consortium. Throughout this period, the journal established its editorial procedures, publication workflow, and scientific identity while supporting early dissemination of innovative research in embedded computing.
In April 2023, WiPiEC adopted a fully Diamond Open Access publishing model. All previously published articles were made freely available online under an open license, ensuring unrestricted public access to the journal's complete archive.
Since August 2023, the journal has expanded its collaboration to include additional international conferences, including the Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) and the Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA).
Today, WiPiEC accepts submissions from researchers worldwide throughout the year. While maintaining strong cooperation with scientific conferences through thematic issues and invited submissions, the journal operates as an independent international scholarly journal serving the broader embedded computing community.
The Editorial Board continuously develops the journal in accordance with international standards for scholarly publishing, aiming to increase scientific quality, international visibility, editorial transparency, and long-term impact.
WiPiEC is published by the WiPiEC Consortium, an international partnership established to promote excellence in embedded computing research, scientific communication, and open scholarly publishing.
The consortium currently consists of:
The Publisher provides the administrative, financial, and technical infrastructure necessary for the operation of the journal while fully respecting the editorial independence of the Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board.
Editorial decisions regarding manuscript acceptance, peer review, publication, corrections, and retractions are made exclusively by the Editorial Board on the basis of scientific quality, originality, ethical compliance, methodological rigor, and relevance to the journal's scope.
Neither the Publisher, conference organizers, sponsors, advertisers, nor affiliated organizations influence editorial decisions or interfere with the peer-review process.
The Publisher is committed to maintaining high standards of publication ethics, transparency, long-term preservation of scholarly content, and continuous improvement of editorial services.
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Journal Title |
Works in Progress in Embedded Computing Journal |
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Abbreviated Title |
WiPiEC |
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ISSN (Online) |
2980-7298 |
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DOI Prefix |
10.64552 |
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Publisher |
WiPiEC Consortium |
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Publisher Organizations |
MECOnet, MANT, EUROMICRO |
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Country of Publication |
Montenegro |
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Language |
English |
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Year Established |
2015 |
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Publication Model |
Diamond Open Access |
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Peer Review |
Double-anonymous peer review |
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Publication Format |
Online |
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Publication Frequency |
Two issues per year |
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Website |
https://wipiec.digitalheritage.me/index.php/wipiecjournal/index |
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Indexing |
The journal assigns a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to every published article to ensure persistent identification, reliable citation, and long-term discoverability. Article metadata are deposited with Crossref to support scholarly communication and citation linking.
WiPiEC is published twice per year in an online-only format.
Since 2023, the journal has adopted a publication model consisting of two regular issues each calendar year, designed to provide timely dissemination of research while maintaining rigorous editorial and peer-review standards.
Issue 1 follows a continuous publication model. Accepted manuscripts are published individually immediately after completing editorial processing, including peer review, copyediting, proofreading, metadata preparation, DOI registration, and final production. This approach minimizes publication delays and ensures that new scientific results become available to the research community as soon as possible.
Issue 2 is primarily dedicated to thematic collections, including selected papers originating from partner conferences, workshops, special research initiatives, or invited thematic sections. Every manuscript submitted for this issue undergoes the same editorial evaluation and independent peer-review process as regular submissions.
From 2015 until 2022, WiPiEC was published as a single annual issue associated primarily with the Work in Progress sessions of affiliated international conferences.
The Editorial Board may also publish special issues devoted to emerging research topics when considered beneficial to the scientific community.
WiPiEC publishes several categories of scholarly contributions to accommodate different forms of scientific and engineering research.
Full Papers present complete reports of original scientific research. They should include a clear research objective, comprehensive methodology, experimental validation or theoretical analysis, discussion of results, and well-supported conclusions. Full Papers are expected to make a significant contribution to the advancement of embedded computing or related disciplines.
Short Papers communicate concise but scientifically significant research results. They may present preliminary findings, innovative concepts, proof-of-concept implementations, pilot studies, or focused investigations that merit rapid dissemination but do not require the length of a Full Paper.
Technical Notes describe innovative engineering solutions, software or hardware designs, implementation techniques, benchmarking studies, development methodologies, practical experiences, or design concepts that provide value to researchers and practitioners.
Technical Notes should emphasize technical originality and practical relevance while maintaining scientific rigor.
Detailed manuscript preparation requirements, formatting instructions, and recommended article structures are provided in the Author Guidelines.
WiPiEC is a Diamond Open Access journal.
The journal provides immediate, permanent, and unrestricted access to all published articles immediately upon publication. Readers may freely read, download, distribute, cite, and use published articles in accordance with the applicable Creative Commons licence without subscription or access charges.
WiPiEC does not charge:
The journal believes that unrestricted access to scientific knowledge promotes wider dissemination of research, increases citation and visibility, encourages international collaboration, and accelerates scientific and technological innovation.
All articles become openly available immediately after publication without embargo periods.
To ensure transparency of the editorial process, every published article includes the dates of submission, revision(s), acceptance, and publication.
Authors are encouraged to make supporting datasets, software, source code, experimental data, and supplementary materials publicly available in trusted repositories whenever possible to facilitate reproducibility and reuse of published research.
Authors retain the copyright of their published work.
By submitting a manuscript for publication, authors grant WiPiEC the non-exclusive right to publish, reproduce, distribute, archive, preserve, and identify itself as the original publisher of the accepted article.
Published articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence unless otherwise specified.
Under this licence, readers and third parties may:
provided that:
Where an article contains material owned by third parties, responsibility for complying with the copyright conditions of those materials rests with the user.
The moral rights of the authors, including the right to be identified as the creators of the work and the right to object to derogatory treatment of the work, remain unaffected.
Commercial reuse of published material—including redistribution for sale, marketing, advertising, commercial training, commercial databases, or other commercial exploitation—requires prior written permission from both the copyright holder and, where applicable, the Publisher.
Authors are encouraged to deposit the published version of their articles in institutional repositories, disciplinary repositories, personal webpages, or other non-commercial archives, provided that the original publication in WiPiEC is properly acknowledged and linked.
The journal supports broad dissemination and responsible reuse of published research while ensuring appropriate attribution, preservation of the scholarly record, and respect for authors' intellectual property rights.
WiPiEC is committed to maximizing the visibility, accessibility, and scientific impact of published research by ensuring that articles are discoverable through recognized scholarly databases, indexing services, digital repositories, and citation infrastructures.
The Editorial Office continuously works to improve the journal's international visibility by maintaining high editorial standards, publishing complete bibliographic metadata, assigning persistent identifiers, and meeting the technical and ethical requirements established by major indexing organizations.
Article metadata are deposited with Crossref, enabling persistent identification through Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), citation linking, metadata exchange, and integration with scholarly information systems.
The journal actively pursues inclusion in internationally recognized abstracting and indexing services that are relevant to the fields of embedded computing, computer science, and engineering.
Information regarding current indexing services is regularly updated on the journal website. Up to now WiPiEC is indexed at:
Ensuring the long-term preservation and accessibility of published scholarly content is one of WiPiEC's fundamental responsibilities.
The journal implements a digital preservation strategy designed to ensure that published articles remain permanently accessible, citable, and reusable, regardless of future technological developments.
Every published article receives a persistent Digital Object Identifier (DOI), ensuring stable citation and reliable long-term access.
WiPiEC utilizes recognized digital preservation services to safeguard published content against data loss and technological obsolescence. The journal currently participates in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) and continuously evaluates additional preservation solutions, including LOCKSS and CLOCKSS, to further strengthen long-term digital preservation.
In addition to preserving published articles, the journal encourages authors to archive research data, source code, software, supplementary materials, and experimental datasets in trusted disciplinary or institutional repositories that support persistent identifiers and long-term accessibility.
The Editorial Office periodically reviews its preservation strategy to ensure compliance with international best practices for scholarly publishing and digital preservation.
WiPiEC is committed to maintaining the highest standards of scientific publishing through a comprehensive quality assurance system that supports editorial excellence, research integrity, and continuous improvement.
Quality assurance encompasses every stage of the publication process, from manuscript submission to long-term preservation of published articles.
The journal's quality assurance procedures include:
The Editorial Board continuously monitors editorial performance, publication quality, peer-review efficiency, and compliance with internationally recognized principles of publication ethics.
Quality assurance procedures are periodically reviewed and updated to reflect developments in scholarly publishing, research integrity, digital publishing technologies, and international best practices.
WiPiEC accepts only advertisements and announcements that are relevant to its scientific community and consistent with the journal's aims and scope.
Advertisements may include announcements of scientific conferences, workshops, summer schools, research projects, educational activities, scientific events, calls for papers, books, software, or other resources of interest to researchers and practitioners in embedded computing and related disciplines.
All advertisements are clearly distinguished from editorial content and do not influence editorial decisions, peer-review procedures, manuscript acceptance, or publication priorities.
The Publisher and Editorial Board do not endorse products, services, organizations, or opinions presented in advertisements.
The Editor-in-Chief reserves the right to reject, modify, suspend, or remove advertisements that are misleading, inaccurate, inappropriate, or inconsistent with the journal's scientific mission, ethical principles, or applicable legal requirements.
WiPiEC is dedicated to advancing scientific knowledge through responsible, transparent, and ethical scholarly publishing.
The journal strives to provide authors, reviewers, editors, and readers with a professional publishing environment founded on scientific excellence, editorial independence, fairness, transparency, and respect for research integrity.
The Editorial Board is committed to continuously improving editorial procedures, publication quality, peer-review practices, digital publishing technologies, and long-term accessibility of published research.
WiPiEC supports open science, responsible research assessment, reproducibility, international collaboration, and unrestricted dissemination of scientific knowledge for the benefit of the global research community.
The journal develops its editorial policies and publishing practices in accordance with internationally recognized recommendations and best practices for scholarly publishing, including the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing, while maintaining compliance with the ethical standards promoted by organizations such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Crossref, and other organizations supporting integrity in scholarly communication.
Through continuous improvement, responsible editorial governance, and commitment to scientific quality, WiPiEC aims to serve as a trusted international journal that contributes to the advancement of embedded computing and related scientific disciplines.
We are pleased to announce that the DSD/SEAA 2026 WiP Edition, published within Vol. 12, No. 2 (2026) of the WiPiEC Journal – Special Issue, is now available:
https://wipiec.digitalheritage.me/index.php/wipiecjournal/issue/view/21
The Proceedings are available at: ZENODO, ResearchGate, MECOnet Events and Publishing.
The 2026 15th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO) MECO&CPSIoT 2026 Conference Proceedings are available at IEEEXplore!