Information for Authors

You can find FAQs (frequently asked questions and their answers) regarding COMPSAC on the COMPSAC Wiki.

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research work, as well as industrial practice reports. Simultaneous submission to other publication venues is not permitted.  In accordance with IEEE policy, submitted manuscripts will be checked for plagiarism. Instances of alleged misconduct will be handled according to the IEEE Publication Services and Product Board Operations Manual.

Please note that in order to ensure the fairness of the review process, COMPSAC follows the double-blind review procedure. Therefore we kindly ask authors to remove their names, affiliations and contacts from the header of their papers in the review version. Please also redact all references to authors’ names, affiliations or prior works from the paper when submitting papers for review. Once accepted, authors can then include their names, affiliations and contacts in the camera-ready revision of the paper, and put the references to their prior works back.

Submissions may be in the form of long or short papers, posters, abstracts, and the unique J/C format.

Note on use of AI: The use of content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in an article (including but not limited to text, figures, images, and code) shall be disclosed in the acknowledgments section of any article submitted to an IEEE publication. The AI system used shall be identified, and specific sections of the article that use AI-generated content shall be identified and accompanied by a brief explanation regarding the level at which the AI system was used to generate the content.

Formatting

Page limits are inclusive of tables, figures, appendices, and references. Full conference papers and workshop papers can add an additional 2 pages with additional page charges ($125 USD/page).

Full conference papers: 10 pages
Journal then Conference (JC) papers: 2 pages
Industrial Practice Reports: 10 pages
Short Papers: 6 pages
Workshop Papers: 6 pages
Fast Abstracts: 2 pages
Student Research Symposium papers: 4 pages
Research Projects Exhibition (RPE) papers: 4 pages

Open Access Option

Authors may publish their accepted papers as open access in the conference proceedings on IEEE Xplore by paying the article processing fee ($640 for IEEE members; $800 for non-members). Authors can select the open access option and a Creative Commons BY license during the copyright process after their paper has been accepted.

The JC (Journal/Conference) Program

Authors of papers published in a peer-reviewed journal (or accepted for publication) can present their plans for ongoing research based on the work described in that paper at this year’s COMPSAC. Authors must submit their published article (or its DOI) and a two-page description of their planned extension to the content of that paper. Use the JC process if you are a previous author and wish to seek comments and suggestions from conference attendees regarding your planned research extensions.

Research Projects Exhibition (RPE)

Please note that the Research Projects Exhibition (RPE) Special Session follows a single-blind review process. Authors submitting to this session are therefore not required to anonymize their manuscripts.