Policies, authorship, and publication requirements

Authorship and integrity policy

WS.5 adopts the ACM Policy on Authorship for submissions and publication-related processes.

Authors must be identifiable human beings who have made substantial intellectual contributions to the work and who take responsibility for the submitted and published content. Gift authorship, guest authorship, ghost authorship, purchased authorship, and misrepresentation of authorship are not permitted.

For any work entering an ACM publication workflow, authors may be required to provide valid ORCIDs before completion of the ACM eRights process.

Submissions must be original and must not be under review for another publication venue at the same time. Posting a preprint to arXiv or a similar non-commercial preprint venue does not count as prior publication under ACM policy.

Use of generative AI tools

Generative AI tools may be used in preparing submissions, provided that their use does not plagiarize, misrepresent, or falsify content; that the submitted work remains an accurate representation of the authors’ own intellectual contribution; and that the authors take full responsibility for all submitted material.

Generative AI tools cannot be listed as authors.

Use of generative AI tools to generate substantive content—including text, images, tables, figures, code, data, references, analysis, or other scholarly content—must be disclosed in the submission. Where substantial sections or materials were generated with such tools, authors should disclose the tool, version, affected sections, prompts (or prompt types where relevant), and post-generation editing.

Use of tools solely for spelling, grammar, punctuation, clarity, or similar language editing does not need to be disclosed.

For more information, please refer to ACM’s Authorship Policy and FAQ on authorship and generative AI .

Reviewer use of AI tools

Reviewers and committee members must preserve the confidentiality of submitted work. They must not upload confidential submissions, review text, metadata, author-identifying information, or other confidential review material into generative-AI or LLM systems unless the system provides appropriate confidentiality guarantees and the reviewer’s use complies with ACM peer-review policy.

Reviewers remain responsible for the accuracy, fairness, confidentiality, and tone of their reviews. For more information, please refer to  Peer Review Policy FAQ.

Human participants, web data, and ethics

Submissions involving human participants, user studies, interviews, surveys, experiments, ethnography, annotation work, platform users, private data, identifiable data, or potentially sensitive web data must comply with applicable ethical, legal, institutional, local, national, and international requirements.

Where relevant, authors should describe ethics approval, consent procedures, data protection measures, privacy safeguards, risk minimization, and responsible handling of web data.

For more information, please refer to ACM’s Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects.

Conflicts of interest

Authors, reviewers, committee members, and chairs must disclose conflicts of interest. Conflicts may arise from institutional relationships, supervisory relationships, recent collaboration, joint funding, financial interests, personal relationships, rivalry, or other circumstances that could reasonably be perceived to affect impartial judgment.

Reviewers and committee members with a conflict will recuse themselves from reviewing, discussing, or deciding on the relevant submission.

For more information, please refer to ACM’s Conflict of Interest Policy for ACM Publications.

Open Access and publication charges

Registration fees cover participation in WS.5 and are separate from any publication-related charges.

If WS.5 is approved for ACM ICPS publication, accepted archival papers will be subject to ACM’s ICPS Open Access publication model. Some papers may be published without an article processing charge, for example where the corresponding author is affiliated with an ACM Open institution or is covered by listed geographic waiver arrangements. For papers not covered by those arrangements, ACM’s 2026 subsidized ICPS article processing charges may apply. ACM allows organizers either to pay all applicable charges centrally or to make authors individually responsible for applicable charges.

WS.5 will provide updated publication-charge guidance before archival manuscripts enter the publication workflow.

For more information, please visit ACM’s Open Access guidance for ICPS conference organizers.

Code of conduct

WS.5 is committed to a respectful, inclusive, and safe environment for all participants. All participants are expected to follow the ACM Policy Against Harassment at ACM Activities and any additional UNIPO code-of-conduct procedures.