Advances in Science and Engineering Technology International Conferences, ASET

About Advances in Science and Engineering Technology International Conferences, ASET

About ASET — a Conference Proceedings, Not a Conventional Journal

Advances in Science and Engineering Technology International Conferences, ASET is catalogued in Journals World as if it were a journal, and the first duty of an accurate profile is to correct that impression. ASET is a multi-conference event — the Advances in Science and Engineering Technology multi-conferences organised by the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) in the United Arab Emirates — whose accepted, presented papers are published as conference proceedings, principally in the IEEE Xplore digital library. The ISSNs in the stored record, 2831-6886 and 2831-6878, are the serial identifiers attached to that proceedings series: the 2023 proceedings table of contents published by Curran Associates, the proceedings reprint publisher, lists ISSN 2831-6886 for the 2023 ASET volume, alongside IEEE cataloguing and ISBNs for the print-on-demand and online editions. Treating a conference proceedings series as though it had the editorial structure, article types and submission system of a standing journal misleads authors, so this profile describes ASET as what its official organiser says it is.

The stored record contained three further errors that this profile corrects explicitly. First, the publisher was stored as the bare number “43” — a garbled field, not a publisher; the organiser is the Higher Colleges of Technology, and the proceedings publisher of record for the published volumes is IEEE, with Curran Associates handling print-on-demand copies of individual proceedings volumes. Second, the country was stored as the United States. That appears to reflect the location associated with proceedings distribution or cataloguing rather than the event itself; the organising institution, the Higher Colleges of Technology, is the UAE’s large applied higher-education institution, and ASET is its multi-conference series. Authors should not cite the United States as the conference’s home on the basis of the old record. Third, the old template used “Q4” as if it were the proceedings’ subject. A quartile label is not a subject. ASET’s actual subject, from the organiser’s own description, is electrical engineering and its neighbouring disciplines, organised as five named conferences described below.

HCT’s official ASET page describes the multi-conferences as “a unique and innovative mix of Electrical Engineering disciplines” and lists the five conferences that compose the series. They are: the International Conference on Applications in Electrical Engineering; the International Conference on Bioengineering; the International Conference on Mechatronics, Industry 4.0, IoT, and Their Applications; the International Conference on Power, Energy, and Industrial Innovations; and the International Conference on Space Technologies and Aerospace Engineering. That list is the scope statement for the whole series, and any paper submitted to ASET should be located, honestly, inside one of those five territories. A paper on pure mathematics, civil structures with no electrical, mechatronic or energy component, or a wholly unrelated science topic does not become an ASET paper because the umbrella title contains the broad words “science and engineering technology”; the five sub-conferences, not the umbrella marketing phrase, define the real call.

How Publication in ASET Works

HCT states the publication pathway plainly on its official page, and this profile follows its wording closely. Submitted academic research papers undergo a peer-review process. Papers that are accepted and presented, written in standard English free of grammatical and spelling errors, and that pass the IEEE plagiarism screening process, will be submitted for publication in the IEEE Xplore digital library, subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements. Every clause in that sentence matters to an author. Acceptance alone is not publication: presentation is required. English quality is an explicit condition, not a courtesy. Plagiarism screening is an explicit gate. And even then, inclusion is subject to IEEE Xplore’s own scope and quality requirements, so the organiser carefully promises submission for publication, not a guarantee that every presented paper appears in Xplore in perpetuity. Authors who need indexed proceedings for promotion, graduation or funding purposes should keep the acceptance letter, the presentation record and the eventual Xplore listing, and should verify the specific edition’s indexing after the event rather than assuming it from a previous year.

The official page also gives a year-by-year publication history that lets a prospective author judge the series’ scale and continuity directly, instead of relying on a directory’s summary. HCT records that the 2018 multi-conferences concluded with 187 ASET papers published in IEEE Xplore; 2019, with 230 papers; 2020, with 233 papers; 2022, with 288 papers; 2023, with 163 papers; and 2024, with 138 papers. Each figure is accompanied on the official page by the IEEE Xplore proceedings link for that edition. Read together, those numbers describe a substantial, recurring regional engineering conference series — hundreds of papers in strong years, a noticeable dip in the 2023 and 2024 counts — with a gap in the sequence as listed between 2020 and 2022. This profile reports the organiser’s figures as the organiser’s figures; it does not add editions, estimate missing years or convert the counts into an acceptance rate, because the number of submissions in each year was not published in the material retrieved, and an acceptance rate without a submission denominator would be fabrication.

The 2023 volume’s table of contents gives a concrete sense of the series’ content. Its opening papers include a qualitative assessment of tangible and intangible outcomes and challenges of massive open online courses; identification of friction-model parameters of a servomotor using genetic algorithms; experimental and simulation studies of transient photocurrent in organic solar cells; a comparison of silicon and gallium solar cells for mini photovoltaic systems based on life-cycle analysis; a review of semi-transparent solar cells and transparent conductive electrode materials; ocean thermal energy conversion technology and its applications; and pneumonia detection in chest X-ray images using a ResNet50 model. That spread — energy and photovoltaics, control and mechatronics, bioengineering and medical image analysis, and even engineering-education research — matches the five sub-conferences well, and it shows the applied, regionally engaged character of the proceedings: much of the work concerns energy, sustainability and applied computing questions of direct relevance to the Gulf region’s universities and industries.

Metrics, Identity and the Limits of Journal Data for a Proceedings Series

The stored record gave an h-index of 5 and a coverage year of 2024 for this title. No source for that h-index was stated in the record, and the foreground research for this profile did not retrieve a verifiable bibliometric source that confirms it: the OpenAlex sources endpoint for ISSN 2831-6886 returned a 404, meaning no OpenAlex source record was resolved for that ISSN in that check, and a DOAJ search for both ISSNs returned no listing — as expected, because DOAJ lists open-access journals, and an IEEE conference proceedings series is not one. Accordingly, this profile does not repeat the h-index of 5 as a verified fact; it reports it only as the unattributed figure in the previous record, which readers should not cite. That restraint illustrates a wider point that this batch of profiles makes repeatedly: when a bibliometric figure cannot be traced to a named database fetched directly, the honest entry is to say so, not to copy the number forward until it acquires authority by repetition.

Identity checks matter even more for proceedings than for journals, because conference names are recycled constantly. ASET as described here — the HCT multi-conferences in Advances in Science and Engineering Technology, with proceedings under ISSN 2831-6886 — is not the Tunisian IC_ASET, the International Conference on Advanced Systems and Emergent Technologies organised by the Tunisian ASET association of electrical specialists, which is a different event with a similar acronym and its own IEEE proceedings tradition. It is not the various “advances in science, engineering and technology” conferences advertised by commercial organisers under similar titles and acronyms, and it is not a journal of that name. The disambiguators are the organiser (Higher Colleges of Technology), the five named sub-conferences, the IEEE Xplore proceedings links on the official HCT page, and the ISSN. An author invited to, or citing, “ASET” should check at least two of those four before treating two mentions as the same event. Conference-proceedings fraud and confusion both exploit exactly this acronym crowding, and early-career researchers in the region are the usual victims.

For librarians and research managers, the practical cataloguing consequences follow from the same identity. ASET papers should be recorded as conference papers in a proceedings series, with the edition year, the specific sub-conference where known, and the IEEE Xplore identifier for the paper, rather than as journal articles with a volume and issue. Citation styles that force proceedings into a journal template produce the kind of garbled record this profile replaces — a numeric publisher, a wrong country, a quartile in place of a subject. Research-assessment systems likewise differ in how they credit proceedings papers in engineering, where, unlike in many sciences, a peer-reviewed, IEEE-published conference paper is a normal and respected research output, particularly in electrical engineering, computing and mechatronics. Authors should therefore neither inflate an ASET paper into a journal article nor dismiss it as unreviewed: the organiser states a peer-review process, presentation requirement and plagiarism screening, and the resulting Xplore record is the evidence to cite.

Submitting to ASET: Practical Guidance

Submission to ASET is submission to a conference, on the conference’s timetable, through the route the organiser announces for that edition — not through a standing journal portal. The official HCT page retrieved for this profile is the ASET 2026 page, which confirms the series was being presented for a 2026 edition with the same five conferences and the same IEEE Xplore publication pathway. It did not, in the material retrieved, publish the deadlines, venue details, fees, template or submission-system address for that edition, and this profile states none of those details rather than inventing them. An author preparing for ASET should therefore work from the current edition’s official HCT call for papers on the day they prepare their submission, and confirm, in order: the submission deadline and notification date for the relevant sub-conference; the IEEE paper template and page limit in force for that edition; the registration and presentation requirements, including whether remote presentation is permitted; the fee and what it covers; and the edition’s stated Xplore and indexing arrangements. Any website other than HCT’s that supplies those details for an “ASET” event should be checked against the organiser and ISSN disambiguators above before money or manuscripts change hands.

On the manuscript itself, the organiser’s stated conditions translate into concrete advice. Write in clear, standard English and have the paper proofread, because language quality is an explicit publication condition, not an afterthought. Run a similarity check before submission and cite prior work — including your own conference versions — properly, because IEEE plagiarism screening is an explicit gate and a failure there can remove a presented paper from Xplore. Prepare to present, and budget and plan travel or the approved remote alternative accordingly, because presentation is part of the pathway, not an optional celebration after it. Choose the sub-conference deliberately: a bioengineering paper sent to the power and energy conference, or a space-technology paper sent to the electrical-applications conference, will be reviewed by the wrong community and judged by the wrong standards. And keep expectations proportionate: ASET offers a peer-reviewed regional engineering audience, an IEEE proceedings record where the edition’s requirements are met, and a multi-conference meeting at which electrical, mechatronic, energy, bioengineering and space researchers from the region’s universities meet in one place. It does not offer journal impact, long-form article space or the citation profile of a standing IEEE transactions journal, and a paper that needs those things should be sent to one instead.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is ASET a journal?
No. It is the Advances in Science and Engineering Technology multi-conference series organised by the Higher Colleges of Technology, whose accepted and presented papers are submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore as conference proceedings. ISSNs 2831-6886 and 2831-6878 identify the proceedings series.

Who organises and publishes ASET?
The organiser is the Higher Colleges of Technology in the United Arab Emirates. Proceedings are published through IEEE Xplore, with Curran Associates supplying print-on-demand copies of volumes such as the 2023 proceedings. The number “43” and the country “United States” in the previous record were errors.

What are the five ASET conferences?
Applications in Electrical Engineering; Bioengineering; Mechatronics, Industry 4.0, IoT, and Their Applications; Power, Energy, and Industrial Innovations; and Space Technologies and Aerospace Engineering — as listed on HCT’s official ASET page.

How many papers have been published?
HCT reports 187 papers in IEEE Xplore for 2018, 230 for 2019, 233 for 2020, 288 for 2022, 163 for 2023 and 138 for 2024. No acceptance rate is stated, because submission totals were not published in the material retrieved.

What is ASET’s h-index?
The previous record stated 5 without a source. That figure could not be verified in this research — OpenAlex returned no source record for ISSN 2831-6886 and DOAJ returned no listing — so it should not be cited as verified.

How do I submit?
Through the current edition’s official HCT call for papers. Deadlines, fees, templates and the submission system were not published in the official material retrieved for this profile, so confirm them on the current ASET page before preparing a submission.

Sources and Verification Notes

This profile is based on the Higher Colleges of Technology’s official ASET 2026 page, which supplied the organiser, the five sub-conferences, the peer-review, presentation, English-language and plagiarism-screening conditions for IEEE Xplore publication, and the per-edition paper counts with Xplore links; on the Curran Associates table of contents for the 2023 ASET proceedings, which supplied ISSN 2831-6886 and the IEEE cataloguing for that volume and a sample of its papers; on a direct DOAJ search returning no listing for either ISSN; and on a direct OpenAlex ISSN check returning no source record. The previous Journals World record was used only to identify the errors corrected here — numeric publisher, wrong country, quartile-as-subject and unattributed h-index — not as a source of fact.

ASET in Its Regional Setting

ASET’s setting helps explain its programme. The Higher Colleges of Technology is an applied, employer-facing institution, and its multi-conference series mirrors that mission: the five conferences privilege application — electrical engineering in use, bioengineering in use, mechatronics and Industry 4.0 systems in use, power and energy innovation for a region where cooling, desalination, solar generation and grid resilience are daily engineering problems, and space technologies for a country that has invested visibly in a national space programme. The 2023 contents retrieved for this profile, with their concentration on photovoltaics, solar-cell comparison, ocean thermal energy and applied machine learning for medical imaging, are consistent with that regional agenda rather than with a generic global call. For a researcher at a Gulf or wider Middle East and North Africa institution, that alignment is the attraction: the reviewers, the audience and the other papers in the session are likely to understand the local grid conditions, climate, industry partners and regulatory setting that a distant journal reviewer might treat as incidental detail. For an author outside the region, the same alignment is a test to apply before submitting — if the paper’s value depends on a context ASET’s community does not share, another venue will review it more knowledgeably. Judged on those terms, as a regional applied-engineering meeting with a documented IEEE proceedings pathway and a published record running from 187 papers in 2018 to 138 in 2024, ASET is a coherent and verifiable series; judged as the “journal” its old directory record pretended it was, it could only disappoint, which is why accurate cataloguing of the kind attempted here matters to authors deciding where to send their work.

One final practical note follows from the proceedings format itself. Because each edition is a separate volume with its own ISBNs and IEEE catalogue number, a citation to an ASET paper should always carry its year and, where the record gives it, its DOI or Xplore identifier, so that a reader can distinguish the 2023 paper of a given title from any extended journal version the same authors may later publish. Authors who do extend a proceedings paper into a journal article should disclose the earlier version as the receiving journal requires, and readers comparing the two should expect the journal version to be longer and more fully evidenced.