Registration Guide

***** If you register for full paper, please pay attention that open access is essential for ACM publishing house. The registration fee does not include APC. You need to pay extra APC if you want to publish your paper. The fee will be charged by ACM separately.

For conferences publishing in this new model, all ICPS papers will be published Open Access (OA). Many authors will qualify for free OA publishing, while others will be required to pay an applicable article processing charge (APC).

If you are the corresponding author of a paper in a conference that is to be published in ICPS, please follow these steps to determine whether you will be required to pay an APC.

1. Check to see if your institution is a member of the ACM Open program by reviewing the list of participating institutions.
2. Check to see if the country in which your institution is located is on this list of countries covered by ACM’s agreements with EIFL and Research4Life and/or classified by the World Bank as low-income countries.
3. Check to see if the country in which your institution is located is on this list of countries classified by the World Bank as lower middle income countries.
4. Are you or at least one of your coauthors an ACM member? Please visit this page and log in to MyACM to check your membership status. If you would like to apply for ACM membership, you may do so here.
5. Once you have determined your status based on steps 1-4, please see below for the applicable APC, if any. ACM recognizes that the payment of APCs represents a significant challenge for some authors, and has therefore introduced a temporary subsidy on 2025 APC pricing for ICPS. This pricing applies to all papers that are processed through the ACM eRights system after 12 noon US Eastern time on March 6, 2025. The subsidized pricing for 2025 is as follows:

* If your institution is a member of the ACM Open program, you are not required to pay an APC.
* If the country in which your institution is located is on the list of low-income countries, you are not required to pay an APC.
* If you are affiliated with an institution in a lower-middle-income country (as defined by the World Bank) and you or any of your coauthors is a member of ACM, the applicable APC is $125 per paper.
* If you are affiliated with an institution in a lower-middle-income country but neither you nor any of your coauthors is a member of ACM, the applicable APC is $175 per paper.
* If you are not affiliated with an institution in a lower-middle-income country but either you or one of your coauthors is an ACM member, the applicable APC is $250 per paper.
* In all other cases, the applicable APC is $350 per paper.