Submission and review by Easychair, facilitated by track chairs, who submit their suggestions for acceptance/rejection. Easychair funded by conference budget, so paid for by local organiser.
Programme and conference chairs to make final call re: paper acceptance/rejection.
Website
Programme Committee and Track Chairs are advertised as at CFP.
Reviewers are thanked.
Travel and Accommodation are advertised.
Registration: this is still a complex issue. Different universities use different systems. Usually dealt with locally by the local team.
Papers
Important notes for papers:
Include length of presentation (usually 20min / 10min q&a) as part of CFP.
We will operate a "soft reject" on controversial reviews (i.e. one review accept/the other reject), where the author will be invited to improve their abstract and resubmit (2 weeks?). Final decision will be by programme chair.
Panels (an option for Programme Chairs)
Panel submission explicitly advertised from beginning of CFP. Track chairs can decide if they want to accept panels (strongly suggested that they do). Track chairs to consider whether convening a panel themselves might be appropriate for their track.
A general panel submitted to a track consists of: 3-4 speakers, 10-15 mins each, 10-15 mins discussion, 1h slot (variations negotiable with track and programme chair)
Papers can be submitted post-ETHICOMP to corresponding peer-reviewed journal.
What panels shouldn’t be: loosely organised papers with no common thread. Organised late on after the paper submissions (difficult to navigate for programme development).
Poster sessions (an option for Programme Chairs)
Poster submissions advertised explicitly from beginning of CFP.
If a paper author is struggling to finalise a paper for the due date, they may be considered for a poster submission in discussion with track chair. (note: this cannot go the other way - from a poster to paper)
Specifically scheduled poster section with 5 min lightning talks. (Not over lunch breaks; can "structure unstructured time" and be overbearing for poster presenters.) Space for posters (and fixings) to be provided by local organisers close to food locations for perusal.
Papers arising from posters can be submitted post-ETHICOMP to corresponding peer-reviewed journal.
Authors can choose to submit either to the general “open” track, or a specific topical track from the list below. Please note the track for which you would like your paper considered in the "Abstract" field. Initial submissions to both topical tracks and the “open” general track should take the form of extended abstracts of 1,000-1,500 words. We welcome perspectives from researchers in business, government, computer science, information systems, law, media, anthropology, pedagogy, psychology, sociology and philosophy. Interdisciplinary papers and those from new researchers and practitioners are encouraged. Papers can involve a variety of approaches, including those with a conceptual, applied, practical or historical focus, as well as case studies and reports on lessons learned in practice.
Important Dates
Call for abstracts November 1, 2017
Initial submission deadline January 10, 2018
Reviews due February 10, 2018
Paper acceptance / rejection February 25, 2018
Final full paper submissions May 25, 2018
Conference September 24-26, 2018
As in previous ETHICOMP conferences, papers written in English and not published nor submitted elsewhere will be accepted on the basis of an extended abstract of between 1000 and 1500 words after a careful, double-blind review overseen by the Program Committee. Authors may submit more than one abstract, but acceptance of multiple proposals by a single author or co-author will be weighed against available space to ensure we can include as many authors as is practical for ETHICOMP 2018. After an abstract is accepted, a final paper is due approximately three months later. Final papers should be no more than 8000 words. Conference presentations will consist of a 20 min talk with 10 mins discussion time.
Details regarding formatting and style of final papers for the conference proceedings will be posted to the conference website and circulated to authors. Abstracts and full papers will be submitted and reviewed through EasyChair. Full details of the submission process will be posted to the conference website on EasyChair.