Submission Page: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=apkc2022#

Instructions for authors:

APKC 2022 adopts the following two-round submission policy. Basically, authors will receive either Accept or Reject in the 1st notification. Meanwhile, a few authors may receive a Resubmission Notification, which means that they are recommended to resubmit their papers with a reply letter. Then, they will receive either Accept or Reject in the 2nd notification. Note that this is NOT Conditional Acceptance, and the papers are automatically rejected if we did not get the authors' resubmission. We do not accept any new submission in the resubmission phase.

Technical papers submitted for APKC are to be written in English. Submitted papers must be no longer than 10 pages excluding references and appendices and no longer than 12 pages in total. Committee members are not obligated to read appendices, and a paper must be intelligible without the appendices. Submissions must follow the new ACM conference template, which has been updated in October 6, 2021 (Use sigconf style). Submissions should not use older ACM formats or non-standard formatting. Submissions must be in Portable Document Format (.pdf). Authors should devote special care that fonts, images, tables, and figures comply with common standards and do not generate problems for reviewers.

APKC requires double-blind reviewing process. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized. Author names and affiliations should not appear in the paper. The authors should avoid obvious self-references and should appropriately blind them if used. The list of authors cannot be changed after the acceptance decision is made unless approved by the Program Chairs. Submissions to APKC 2022 must not substantially overlap with papers that are published or simultaneously submitted to other venues (including journals or conferences/workshops). Double-submission will result in immediate rejection. Detected violations may be reported to other conference chairs and journal editors. The Program Committee reserves the right to reject any paper that does not abide by the rules without considering its technical merits. Note: To attend APKC 2022, please register to AsiaCCS 2022.

On Conflicts of Interest:

The program chairs require cooperation from both authors and program committee members to prevent submissions from being evaluated by reviewers who may have a conflict of interest. During the submission, authors should identify members of the program committee with whom they have a conflict of interest. Conflict of interest includes but not limited to: advisors and advisees (at any time in the past); authors and PC members who share an institutional relationship; professional collaborations (regardless of whether they resulted in a publication) that occurred in the past 2 years; line-of-management relationship, grant program manager, and close personal relationships.