All submissions to this conference will be sent to at least 2 independent reviewers selected from a group of well-established researchers by the Programme Committee Chair and evaluated based on originality, technical and research content, relevance to conference, contributions, and readability. The full paper submissions will be chosen based on technical merit, interest, applicability, and how well they fit a coherent and balanced technical program.
We will first check plagiarism status of each submitted paper, and there is a hard rule that the similarity rate cannot exceed 15%. We take plagiarism case very seriously, which include self-plagiarism of authors' own published papers. Papers with high percentage of plagiarism and self-plagiarism will not be considered. If an author is found to commit an act of plagiarism, the following acts of sanction will be taken:
1. Reject the paper submitted or delete the paper from the final publications.
2. Report the author’s violation to his/her supervisor(s) and affiliated institution(s).
3. Report the author’s violation to the appropriate overseeing office of academic ethics and research funding agency.
4. Reserve the right to publish the author’s name(s), the title of the article, the name(s) of the affiliated institution and the details of misconduct, etc. of the plagiarist.
5. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.