Q 9. What should appear in PEER REVIEW PROCESS section of the application?

This should be a fairly detailed description of the paper review process, which serves to document, and to help reviewers appraise, the technical rigor of the conference. Please consider the following questions when answering:

1. What is the structure of the conference’s Technical Program Committee (the committee that oversees the selection of presentations for the conference)? How many members are there? What is the role of each member?
2. What materials are reviewed? Abstracts, supporting material, abbreviated manuscripts, complete manuscripts, a combination of these materials?
3. What are the criteria used by your reviewers to evaluate submissions and how are these criteria transmitted to the reviewers?
4. How is the reviewer’s evaluation transmitted to the Technical Program Committee?
5. If reviewers have conflicting opinions about a submission, how is a decision rendered? Who has final approval for acceptance? Is there a single person who speaks to the overall quality of all submissions accepted by the conference?
6. What is the estimated number of submissions to this event? What is the targeted acceptance/rejection rate? How large of a deviation from this target is allowed?
7. How do you handle the review of submissions where there is a conflict of interest (e.g., a submission from a member of the Technical Program Committee or someone from their institution)?
8. Does the conference communicate with authors to ensure they plan to present their papers at the conference and will have quality presentation materials? What is your policy for non presented papers?