Publication Ethics

1. Editorial Board Responsibilities

• Publication Decisions: The Conference Chair and Editorial Committee are responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the conference shall be published in the proceedings based on peer review reports.
• Objective Review: Evaluation of manuscripts is conducted based solely on intellectual merit without bias regarding race, gender, or institutional origin.
• Confidentiality: Editors must protect the confidentiality of all material submitted to the conference and all communications with reviewers.

2. Peer Reviewer Obligations

Reviewers assist the editorial board in making decisions and through editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

• Promptness: Reviewers who feel unqualified or unable to provide a timely review should notify the editor immediately.
• Standards of Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate.

3. Author Duties & Ethics

Originality: Authors must ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited.

Multiple Publication: An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication.

Plagiarism is strictly forbidden and will result in immediate disqualification.