Publication Policy - Cods Comad

Effective Jan 1 2024, the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) has a new policy. This will be applicable for the conference proceedings of CODS COMAD Dec 2024.

The implication of this new policy for authors can be found here. We encourage all authors planning to submit papers to any track of CODS COMAD Dec ’24 to go over this carefully, particularly those from the industry. In summary, all ICPS papers will be published Open Access. Unless the corresponding author of the paper is affiliated with an institution that is a member of the ACM Open Program, the paper will have to pay an Article Processing Charge (APC). The list of participating institutions can be found here. If the corresponding author is affiliated with an Indian institution that is not in the above list, then the APC is 350 USD if at least one of the authors of the paper is an ACM Member, and 500 USD otherwise. Information on ACM India Membership can be found here. If the corresponding author’s institution is not based in India, then they should read the instructions carefully to understand the applicable APC for their paper.

For the Dec 2024 edition of CODS COMAD, ACM has agreed to the following APC policy.

For all corresponding authors affiliated with ACM Open institutions at the time of paper acceptance in October 2024, they will proceed without the need to pay an APC.
ACM will grant an automatic waiver for all papers with corresponding authors affiliated with government or academic institutions inside India.
For all corresponding authors affiliated with for-profit companies (in or outside India) that do not participate in ACM Open as of October 2024, no automatic waiver will be provided and the authors will need to have their institutions cover the cost of the APC.
For all corresponding authors based in India without any institutional affiliation, authors may apply for a financial waiver at apcwaivers@acm.org, which will be granted upon verification that the authors are unaffiliated.
For corresponding authors from nonprofit institutions and small start-ups based in India, the CODS COMAD Organizing Committee will provide support towards covering the APC for a limited number of papers. Once a paper gets accepted, if the authors need assistance for paying the APC, and are unable to get a waiver from ACM, they may write to comadcods@gmail.com.
Corresponding authors affiliated with non-India based institutions (academic, government, or nonprofit industry) will not get automatic waivers. They may apply for a waiver, which will be considered on a case-by-case basis, at apcwaivers@acm.org. Note that CODS COMAD Dec’24 Organizing Committee will not be able to guarantee that these waiver requests will be cleared to meet the publication schedule of the conference.

To facilitate this process, all CODS-COMAD authors must include their institutional affiliation on their submissions and use their institutional affiliation’s email domain in their contact email on the submission.

Towards addressing concerns of authors who need to pay the APC according to the above policy, we will provide authors of accepted papers the flexibility to decide whether they wish to include their paper in the conference proceedings. If they decide not to include their paper in the proceedings, then they do not need to pay the APC. For the authors of accepted papers who choose not to include their paper in the conference proceedings, CODS COMAD Dec’24 OC is pleased to offer the following alternative:

They can choose to be considered for a journal track option (available only for Research and ADS track), through which a selected set of accepted papers will be considered in a specially negotiated conference collection of Springer Discover Data journal (https://link.springer.com/journal/44248). These papers will be presented in the conference, but will not be published by ACM and do not appear in the conference proceedings. They will be considered by the journal (with possible minor revisions as necessary) for publication at a later date in the special issue.