Submission due: January 8, 2021 January 25 (23:59 (UTC)), 2021 (Extended)

1st Notification: February 22, 2021

Resubmission due: March 1, 2021

2nd Notification: March 8, 2021

Proceedings version due: March 31, 2021

APKC workshop: June 7, 2021

Submission Page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apkc2021

APKC 2021 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. Papers must be at most 8 pages excluding bibliography and appendices, and at most 10 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 on September 21, 2020 (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 2021 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 that for attending APKC 2021, please make a registration for AsiaCCS 2021. For each paper requires a separate full pack or workshop only registration.

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, close personal relationships.