IBEC 2022 has been cancelled
The conference was originally planned as a face-to-face meeting to be held in January 2022 in Shanghai, China. However, pertaining travel restrictions and uncertainties led the executive committee in the beginning of September 2022 to switch to an online conference again. Submission period was extended by another month. Unexpectedly, we have received several paper withdrawals instead.
Therefore, with much regret a decision was made to return the small number of remaining papers back to the authors. Please, accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
The executive committee and membership continue working towards our common mission. We remain optimistic for IBEC 2023 and hope to return in full strength to in-person conference, which will provide rich, lively, and well-attended academic discussion.