Guidelines to ISCAS Organizers

Please be advised of the following rules and guidelines that govern the organization of ISCAS in addition to the ones that are included in the IEEE and CASS manuals related to conference organization. Please contact the VP conferences or Heidi Zazza for more information on these items.

  1. Two years in advance of each conference year, based on recommendations by the ISCAS Steering Committee, the CASS President assigns 5 active and voting members of the ISCAS Organizing Committee( TPC co-chair, invited session co-chair, tutorial co-chair and 2 CAS reps ).
  2. Acceptance rate target: a maximum of 45%.
  3. ISCAS Technical Program Committee Chairs have the right to augment the track chair team assigned by the technical committees with volunteers of their choice, if they wish to do so.
  4. ISCAS “no shows” should be removed from IEEE Xplore package, after verification with the authors and taking into consideration any extenuating circumstances. This policy should be made known by the ISCAS TPC to the authors at the time of paper acceptance.
  5. The tracks can be reformed so that, wherever appropriate, more than 1 TCs correspond to one track.
  6. The TPC may accept an unlimited number of papers from each author.
  7. The TPC may limit the number of papers per one full registration to four (4).
  8. The TPC may keep the number of paper pages at four (4), but be flexible with requests for more pages
  9. Papers of authors not paying registration fees should be removed from the ISCAS program
  10. The ISCAS Best Student Paper Award (A certificate and a check of USD 500/paper; 4 awards- McCalla fund) has been instituted (an appropriate announcement should be included in the ISCAS cfp) and will be given during the ISCAS Farewell ceremony, based on:
    • Eligibility: Any principal author of a paper submitted to ISCAS, who is a full- or part-time Undergraduate, Master’s, of Ph.D. Student and chooses to participate in the “Student Paper Contest.” Of course, any papers co-authored by members of the selection committee are excluded
    • Selection Procedure: Papers which fall in the above category will be ranked during the review process and the authors of the 10 best papers will be invited to present a poster, in addition an oral presentation.
    • Selection Committee: Consists of the General Chair (or its delegate), the Technical Program Co-Chair(s) and the Track Chair(s) of tracks with finalist papers. It will be responsible to select the best 3 papers to receive the award.
      The selection will be based on the following criteria:
    • Quality of the oral presentation, as determined by the chair of the session
    • Quality of the poster presentation in the presence of the Selection Committee
    • Ranking as a result of the review process
  11. Each ISCAS should generate a report, following the pattern of the following report.