Guidelines for the ACII conference

Review Criteria

• Originality: Paper describes original results, or original analysis of previously published results. If the paper includes any results or analysis previously published by this or any other author, the boundary between published and novel work is clearly delimited by appropriate citation.
• Significance: Results and analysis are of potential interest to others working in the field of affective computing.
• Correctness: Derivations and algorithms are correct.
• Clarity: Motivation, methods, results, and analysis are clear.

Review Process

• Double blind process: papers are submitted anonymously; reviewers remain anonymous as well.
• Program committee: members of the PC cover the various domains of ACII. Their role is to review a certain number of papers following the review criteria listed above.
• Senior program committee: for each assigned paper, their role is to check the quality of the reviews and open discussions among reviewers to arrive to a consensus, if possible, for each paper. During this discussion period a rebuttal procedure might be organized. This is, however, not a mandatory requirement.
• The program committee of the ACII conference is subject to final approval by the HUMAINE Association.

Submission guidelines

Long and short papers can be submitted. They differ, not in quality, but in the maturity of the described work.

• Long papers describe high-quality mature work
• Short papers can present novel and original ideas that are still in a preliminary stage of development

Registration Fees

Pricing for the conference must be approved by the Humaine Executive Committee. The committee will judge pricing on fairness and a number of other criteria.

• Organizers may require that at least one author register for the conference for a paper to be included in the proceedings
• For each paper one of the authors needs to pay a registration fee. The registration fee can cover up to four papers by the author.
• Humaine members must be offered a reduced fee.
• Non-humaine members must be offered membership in the Humaine Association. The fee for non-Humaine members has to be equal to the fee for Humaine members plus the Humaine membership fee.  More precisely: (1) non-humaine members have to pay extra (at least the then current Humaine Membership Fee), (2) this “fee” part will be transferred to the Humaine association, (3) Non-humaine members can decide whether they become members or not (but have to pay in any case).  
• Students pay a reduced registration fee.

Budget Guidelines

The budget for the conference has to be approved by the HUMAINE Association Executive Committee. Budgets will be judged on a number of criteria. ACII conferences are intended to be non-profit, as is the HUMAINE Association. To keep the registration fees as low as possible, the work inside the organizing group is normally not charged to the conference, but regarded as internal sponsorship. Engagement of external sponsors is encouraged. These could either be local (e.g. university, industry or grant-giving agencies) or co-organisers such as EU organizations (ESPRIT/COST).

HUMAINE is not currently able to guarantee financial support to cover losses that might be incurred by conference organizers. Conference proposals that include some form of profit sharing to help establish a “buffer fund” (to cover possible losses at future conferences) will be favourably considered.

A Doctoral consortium should be organized:

As for the main conference, an organizing committee should ensure:

• Long papers are submitted
• Program committee members are defined
• The review is geared toward the pertinence and originality of the subject as well as the proposed methodology

Website Guidelines

• The HUMAINE logo must be included on the website
• The website needs to clearly mention that this is the: Bi-annual Conference of the HUMAINE Association
• The website of the ACII conferences must contain a link to the HUMAINE website

Publication Guidelines

• The HUMAINE logo must be included on the front cover of the  proceedings
• The title of the proceedings is to be “Proceedings of the Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Conference [YEAR] – ACII [YEAR]”.
• Events and papers will in the future be archived by HUMAINE Association.