Read carefully before submitting a manuscript.

 

Selection process

 

Submissions are peer reviewed by 4-6 members of the International TPC (Technical Program Committee) review report is strictly declared within one month of submission. TPC consists of international experts who are leading researchers in the field, working in academia and industry. The comments are intended to drive the authors to provide a better camera-ready or to improve the future submissions when rejected.

 

PTL also provide a dedicated review on the editorial/grammar/punctuation. Before and after the camera-ready version there is cross-validation of the accuracy of the updated version. The last validation is performed on the PTL website.

 

Articles that are promising but need more work to enter a full second round of review and assisted improvement. The acceptance is based on the reviews and the quality of the submissions. There is no target for the acceptance rate; practically excellent papers are accepted. On average, the acceptance rate after the first revision varies from 27% to 36%.

 

Accepted papers are in two categories: (i) with minor revision, and (ii) with a special request for revisions. Accepted papers with a special request for revisions are submitted to the second round of revisions.

 

Papers with very valuable ideas, but in much need of presentation improvements, are given special attention; a TPC member from the PTL “task force” will be coaching the authors to improve the paper. The final version is again revised by a PTL member to validate the quality.

 

Accepted and rejected papers are acknowledged; reviews are sent to the authors in both cases.

 

Camera-ready versions are validated again on the Publisher site, for accuracy; fraudulent final submissions of substituted or of on purpose unprofessional content will be rejected.

 

Reviewers are instructed to keep confidentiality on the submissions /either accepted or rejected/; only accepted papers are exposed to the public audience.

 

Note that while we strive to have 100% accurate information, there is always the possibility of human error. PTL is not responsible for inaccuracies, typos, or misprints presented online, electronically, in print, or otherwise.

 

The accept/reject decision for any given submission is final. However, at its discretion, PTL may reconsider specific works for a reassessment with regards to the accept/reject decision. If deemed necessary by PTL, a committee will reassess the work and render a final decision. The decision of such committee is final and no further appeals will be possible.

 

 

Registration

 

Cost

 

PTL never asks for publication fees during any offering period. 

 

Process

 

An accepted paper must be registered, through a specific registration form shared with the corresponding author. PTL registration is “per paper”, this means that each accepted paper must be registered on a separate registration form. If many authors of the same paper, registration is needed for each author.

The registration form contains several categories: students, PTL Fellows, academic, and industry.

 

When registering, please use the online registration form which will be available only after acceptance notification.

 

 

Withdrawal and Plagiarism policy

 

PTL encourages young researches, professors, and engineers to submit new idea papers, practical results, lessons learnt, as well as any substantial contributions to the scientific community.

We strongly advise that the papers be carefully edited to improve the legibility of the text. The length of the originally submitted papers must not vary too much from the camera-ready version.

While withdrawing a paper may happen in a limited number of cases, we support the fairness of the submission. Please take note of the following with respect to paper submissions:

 

(i) Submissions should not be intended to get reviews from the TPC for the sole purpose of improving the quality of the paper. A submission implies that the author intends to ultimately register the paper upon a favourable response from the organizers. PTL doesn’t encourage withdrawals after the paper is submitted (in review) or accepted. Read the manuscript withdraw policy.

 

(ii) Once submitted, a contribution should not be resubmitted to another event before a confirmation of acceptance or rejection. As e-mail may fail, it is the responsibility of the authors to ensure there is no double submission based on an assumption that the paper was rejected, but the e-mail failed to be received.  PTL doesn’t support double submissions. Once a paper is submitted elsewhere, and no decision was clearly received, don’t submit the same paper to PTL.

 

(iii) Small amounts of already published material are allowed in any submission, under the condition that the source is clearly identified. If the reference is missing [quotes and citation], and the paper is published, the publishing authors must write a letter of apology to the original author. If the paper is not published, the review process must enforce the authors to make this reference; the publication process continues only after the text was properly corrected.

 

(iv) PTL fully follows ACM and IEEE plagiarism policies and cooperates with ACM and IEEE to enforce them.

If plagiarism is discovered during the review process, the paper is automatically rejected; the author must explain the cause and write a letter of apology to the original author.

 

If plagiarism is discovered after the paper is published, the following rules apply.

For ACM Plagiarism policy, see: “Plagiarism on the rise”, Ronald F. Boisvert, Mary Jane Irwin, Communications of the ACM, June 2006, Volume 49, Number 6, pp.23-24.

 

As per the authors of the article mentioned above “the verbatim copying, near-verbatim copying, or purposely paraphrasing portions of another author’s’ paper” is plagiarism.

 

PTL endorses and applies the levels of offence, investigation and penalties set by the ACM Code of Ethics.

Litigations must be properly followed; the offending authors must apologize to the offended authors. PTL will inform the authors’ organization about the plagiarism facts. If subsequent offences occur, the author is banned from publishing in PTL conferences. This rule is 100% enforced.