Proceedings published on CEUR-WS.org are freely accessible on the SunSITE.
Hence, there are no technical provisions (access authorization) to prevent
un-authorized use of the proceedings contents.
Being freely accessible does not mean 'public domain', however. All material
remains copyrighted.
CEUR-WS.org is a publication channel for workshops and conferences from the computer science and information systems domain. We may publish proceedings that have a cross-section with neighbor disciplines if they are written from a computer science and/or information systems point of view. That concerns the research methods used in the papers, not the fact whether or not computers are used for the research. The workshop/conference should have a clear focus on specific computer science topics.
We are quite strict on the preconditions and want to avoid unnecessary rejections.
Since we check the constraints after the submission, you should be careful with promises
to your authors that the proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS.org.
However, if you follow the guidelines of this document, you can be rather
sure that your request shall be accepted. You may include a phrase like "Proceedings shall
be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication" in the Call for Papers of your
workshop/conference and on your website. Please do not use the CEUR-WS logo
on your website.
Papers written in a language different than English
The majority (50% or more) of the papers in a volume must be in English. English is the de facto standard when you want to target an international audience. The submitted papers have to be written in the Latin alphabet. Spell author names in Latin characters (accents are allowed). Avoid non-Latin characters in the paper titles (in some cases special characters, e.g. for mathematical concepts, are allowed).
If you submit papers written in a language different to English, we must be able to verify the scientific character of the papers. Therefore, for papers written in a language different than English, we require that you provide an English translation of the paper titles in the index file and additional English abstracts in the papers (see Vol-1877 as example). This is not just to be able to verify the scientific character of a paper, but also to make the content of these papers accessible to the international scientific community. An English abstract and title allows any scientist to decide whether the contribution of a paper is relevant to his or her research. If interested, he or she then may contact the authors for more information.
Author agreement variants
You, the editor, need to collect the correctly signed author agreements plus the editor agreement and pass it to us
via the upload procedure.
2020-03-28: Due to the fact that currently many are working in their home offices, we temporarily accept an alternative to signing the form by hand on paper. You can also fill in the form on the computer and place a hand-signed statement below the form and then take a photo of it, see example surrogate agreement.
The standard phrase defining the rights for readers of individual papers displayed in the index file of a proceedings volume is
"Copyright © JJJJ for the individual papers by the papers' authors. Copyright © JJJJ for the volume as a collection by its editors. This volume and its papers are published under the Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)."where JJJJ is the year in which the papers were produced - typically the same year in which the workshop/conference took place. The copyright phrase tells readers of your proceedings volumes the conditions under which they can download individual papers (resp. material contained in your volume). The PDFs of the papers in your proceedings shall contain a license clause in the form:
"Copyright © JJJJ for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)."All papers in a submission shall have the same license clause (see exceptions for Crown or US government employees). Be aware that CEUR-WS.org has no obligation to track copyrights violators. We, i.e. the management team of CEUR-WS.org and the editorial board of Sun SITE Central Europe, take no responsibility for any damage caused by the publication of your proceedings volume. See disclaimer for more details.
Formally, the management team of CEUR-WS.org and the editorial board of Sun SITE Central Europe is not obliged to provide any submitted material on the server or to guarantee a certain quality of service. In practice however, we are willing to provide this service for a virtually unlimited time. The published material must be scientific or serve academic purposes. It may not contain indecent parts or parts violating human rights. Advertisements (including logos of sponsor companies) must be avoided. Better put them on the home page of your workshop/conference and/or give them credits in the foreword/preface of the the proceedings (if applicable).
Before the PUT step, you prepare a submission directory
containing all
material to be published. This directory must contain at least
a file named "index.html" which serves as the entry point to
your material.
The entry point "index.html" to your material
must conform to the master layout Vol-XXX/index.html
(Vol-AIXIA/index.html for the AI*IA Series).
In particular, you are supposed to use the "CEUR" class tags as advised
in the master layout. Do not
open Vol-XXX/index.html and then select
"File→Save As" in your browser, as this may mutilate the file, but instead right-click
on a link to Vol-XXX/index.html and say
"Save As". You may also use a download tool such as wget or curl
(e.g. execute the command line wget http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/index.html
).
Authors need to use the uniform CEURART style for the papers. You can choose either the 1-column or the 2-column style as the uniform style for your proceedings. The CEURART style can be found here.
2021-11-30: the previously used script ceur-make is deprecated since it does not produce index.html files that are
compatible with our latest format for the index.html file of a proceedings volume. Thus,
produce that file manually from the source of Vol-XXX/index.html.
We are working on a replacement for ceur-make.
We impose certain preconditions, in particular on the minimum size of a proceedings volume. Make sure your submissions fulfills the preconditions. We kindly ask you to include in your submission file a document that lists the members of the program committee, and specifies how many papers were submitted/accepted. You can include this information in a preface document, as usually done for printed proceedings.
View the index file as plain Unicode text rather than as HTML code.
Your file index.html must at least contain the title of the material and the names/addresses of
the proceedings editors (normally identical to the workshop organizers).
It must use the style sheet http://ceur-ws.org/ceur-ws.css
which defines some common layout for proceedings volumes.
It may not contain or start executable code such as Java, JavaScript, ActiveX or
any other type of executable code. Neither may it contain cookie definitions
nor invisible pixels and the like.
We also recommend that you check any links in your file. For example, if you have temporarily uploaded your file to your own homepage (from which it should be removed once published with us!), you can feed its URL into the W3C link validator.
Do not include script code (Javascript or similar) in your index.html file or paper files (eg. if papers are rendered as HTML).
Do not use a Web page editor to produce index.html but rather a simple text editor like 'vi' or 'notepad'. Web page editors including Microsoft Word tend to produce unreadable HTML code which we want to avoid in CEUR-WS.org. CSS must be preferred over FONT tag. As of 2015, we accept characters beyond the 7-bit US-ASCII character set; however, the index.html file must be encoded as UTF-8 Unicode.
Please be careful in the preparation of the file index.html. Delays in publishing a volume are mostly due to errors in that file. The management of CEUR-WS.org reserves the right for adapting the file index.html to accommodate the common style of CEUR-WS.org and to include volume numbers and similar meta information.
The page limit of 10 pages to distinguish regular from short papers is a rough indication. The workshop/conference organizers may impose their own rules on page counts for regular vs. short papers. A paper with less than 10 "standard" pages should however not be classified as a regular paper.
You may want to use filenames like "paper1.pdf" for regular papers and "short1.pdf" for short papers. This is not a hard rule, however. Further material like bibliography file, author index, etc. can be included and linked in the index file but is never a paper. We no longer allow including a PDF of the "whole proceedings" since this can easily lead to inconsistencies and blows up the storage space. If you really want to distribute such a redundant PDF, then do so via your workshop/conference home page. You may include a link to that PDF in the index file.
The papers must be original, i.e. not published in an earlier workshop or conference or journal!
The papers in the proceedings should be in Portable Document Format (PDF). Prefer neutral filenames like paper1.pdf over content-carrying filenames like SmithAndWagon.pdf. Strictly use ISO-compliant filenames and directory names! For example, ISO does not allow blanks in a filename like in "paper 1.pdf". Each paper shall correspond to single file in the volume.
HREF="paper1.pdf"rather than absolute
HREF="http://www.dept.org/paper1.pdf".
Paper files and other items must be put in the main directory rather than sub-directories of the submission directory. This allows short URLs to the citable items of a published proceedings volume. An exception to this general rule are back links to workshop/conference home pages and home pages of scientific institutions (or research labs) organizing the workshop/conference. Moreover, back links to editor and author home pages are welcome. Please note however that such absolute links can and will become dangling when people change their affiliation! That's also a reason why putting the proceedings online at CEUR-WS.org is probably a better idea than putting it on your home page.
We advise proceedings editors to include a link to their workshop/conference web page in their index file of their CEUR-WS volume. This allows readers to easily locate further information about the workshop/conference such as the call for papers. We also recommend to include a back link from the workshop/conference page to the CEUR-WS volume.
Most volumes in CEUR-WS.org have no data about page numbers. So, providing them is an extra service. We have no specific knowledge about suitable tools to change page numbers or merge multiple pdf files into a single one. You might want to try Pdftk, Adobe Acrobat or CutePdf.
If you want to merge several pdf files into one and create a table of contents for the merged document, you may want to use the LaTeX macro definitions by Daniel A. Sadilek, originally used for producing the aggregated proccedings file Vol-324/dsml08.pdf.
You can also download an offline version with the style files from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. It also contains DOCX template files. You can choose between 1-column style and 2-column style. However, these should not be mixed in the proceedings volume. We may in the future prescribe that all submissions use the 1-column CEURART style! More information on the CEURART style can be found in our blog entry.
index.html is required to be encoded as UTF-8 Unicode, which, in principle, enables you to use non-Latin scripts.
However, in the case that you have non-Latin paper titles, we require that you additionally provide a Latin transliteration.
Inside the machine-readable metadata (i.e. the CEURTITLE
fields), there must be a Latin transliteration.
It is strongly recommended to keep the non-Latin original text outside of these machine-readable tags.
For compatibility with publication databases, non-Latin author names must be transliterated into Latin. If an author already has an entry in a widely known publication database such as DBLP, it is strongly preferred to use the same transliteration that is also used there. If you think you are transliterating an author's name for the first time, it is strongly preferred to use a transliteration that is aligned with the English pronunciation, e.g. the BGN/PCGN romanization for Russian.
The PDFs (or other formats supported by CEUR-WS) of each paper to be published must contain a footnote on the first page that designates the paper as being published under the CC BY 4.0 license. The text shall be like
"Copyright © JJJJ for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)."The string JJJJ is to be replaced by the publication year of the paper within the volume. See exceptions for Crown or US government employees.
zip -r sub_file.zip dir_namewhere "sub_file.zip" is the name of the submission file and "dir_name" is the name of the submission directory. For example, the command
zip -r ABCD19.zip ABCD19creates a submission file for the material contained in the directory ABCD19. Use meaningful names for the submission file, e.g. the acronym of the workshop/conference. Under Windows, you can use packers like WinZIP, PKZIP or similar to produce the submission file. But beware: use ISO-standard file names! In particular, blank characters in file names are not allowed. Under Unix, you may also use the 'tar/gzip' commands to create the submission directory. Make sure that the submission file expands to a directory and not to files in the current directory. Subsequently, the procedure PUT (submit a proceedings volume to be published on CEUR-WS.org) is explained. This procedure shall be executed by one of the proceedings editors., i.e. by you. You should in particular sign the EDITOR-AGREEMENT, and you should be the person mentioned in the clause "submitted by ..." at the end of the index file of the volume. If you are one of the editors but the technical upload is done by a person who is not one of the editors, then you should use the clause "submitted by your name, other name" in the index file.
ZIP file size limitation: Our system allows maximum 100MB per ZIP file. In case of the AGREEMENTS ZIP file (step 5 below), make sure that authors use a reasonable resolution for the scan of the signed agreements. One scanned agreements should not use more than approx. 1MB space.
If the material is accepted by us you will receive a notification with the bibliographic
reference of the material.
Please be reachable via email the days following the upload of the submission file. We might have some
questions or we may have to ask you to correct certain issues.
If you do not get a response from us after more than 5 workdays, then send us a reminder email.
We assign the next free volume number to your proceedings as soon as
you upload the submission file and send the accompanying author and editor agreements.
This is a mature procedure and creates least work on our side.
Note! The advance reservation of volume number is discontinued by 2021-04-01!
The actual date of execution of PUT is subject to local policy of the management of CEUR-WS.org and SunSITE.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE.
The deadlines are very tight. Hence, you must check the correctness of the files before submitting them to us! Include the authors in the correctness check by letting them confirm that the right version of their paper is included. You cannot change them after submission!
Individual published papers cannot be removed from a volume. To submit the corrected version, please proceed as follows:
corrected title of paper 3 corrected name of author of paper 7 corrected link pointing to the affiliation of the first editor
<li id="paper01"><a href="paper01.pdf">
<a href="ftp://SunSITE.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE/pub/publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-XXX.zip">Complete proceedings in one ZIP file</a>
We assume that you, the proceedings editors, are fully aware of the copyright requirements as discussed further above in this document and have acquired the copyright from the authors of the papers/material published in your volume.
Under rare circumstances, it can happen that already published papers later turn out to be plagiated. We have a procedure to handle this and ask you to follow the corresponding rules in case that you become aware of such a case.
The papers and volumes published on CEUR-WS.org are freely accessible for academic and private use. Only such use is permitted!
Since authors retain their copyright, they are legally (in contrast to morally) allowed to re-publish their paper with a second publisher. While this appears lawful, it could be regarded as self-plagiarism or double publication. We strongly discourage such re-publication of papers that are already published with us. Likewise, do not publish papers with us that are already published by another publisher. Making a copy of the paper available on the author's home page or on the institutional repository is not regarded as a re-publication. In such cases, authors should include a reference/URL to the original publication at CEUR-WS.
AI-based writing assistance tools may only be used under very strict rules, in particular such tools may not bve used to create substantial parts of a paper's conceptual ideas. See our academic ethics page for details.
When proceedings editors (or any entity with the right to re-publish) decide to re-publish their CEUR-WS.org volume elsewhere, they should make sure that the re-published version is clearly distinguishible from the CEUR-WS.org version. In particular, it may not use any of the following attributes characteristic to CEUR-WS.org:
Some proceedings editors want to distribute their proceedings via additional publication channels (e.g. printed copies or stored on electronic media or published on the workshop/conference web site) in parallel to the online version at CEUR-WS.org. This is fine with us as long as you (the proceedings editors) clearly distinguish it from the CEUR-WS version like indicated above for the case of re-publications. The re-published volume must then include a phrase like
Originally published online by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org, ISSN 1613-0073)or similar on one of the introductory pages of proceedings volume published via the other channel. Such duplicate channels are sometimes convenient but be aware that it is potentially detrimental to the authenticity of your volume. The readers may get confused about where the volume was originally published.
Commercial and non-commercial publishers interested in re-publishing complete proceedings volumes or individual papers are advised to negotiate terms with the editors of the respective volume and/or the authors of the respective papers. CEUR-WS.org is not holding the copyright to the volumes or the individual papers. Hence, we are not a party in such negotiations. The only constraint from our side is that the re-publication is clearly distinguishable from the version published at CEUR-WS.org (see above). Since the CEUR-WS version of the paper is usually the original one, the re-published copy shall include a back reference to the original publication like
Originally published in A. Smith, B. Miller (eds.): Proceedings "Title", CEUR-WS.org/Vol-XXX
CEUR-WS.org is not a re-publisher of already published proceedings or papers. If your proceedings have already been published elsewhere, then do not submit those proceedings to CEUR-WS.org. This rule applies when the proceedings were published with another recognized academic publisher, typically holding an ISSN or ISBN number.
We forbid third-party mirroring of the CEUR-WS.org web site or its parts. Mirroring is different from re-publication since it publishes a one-to-one copy via another Web site. An unauthorized mirror would likely violate the copyright of the CEUR-WS.org Team to its own contents and negatively affect the authenticity of CEUR-WS.org.
Like mirroring, we also disallow to integrate CEUR-WS.org or its parts as an inner frame inside another web site. While this is technically not an act of copying, it can give the impression as if the content of CEUR-WS.org were part of the other web site.
Authors of individual papers keep the copyright to their papers. Authors publish their papers as open-access licensed via the Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). To do so, authors need to include an appropriate footnote on their papers and sign the AUTHOR-AGREEMENT. The signed agreement shall be passed to the proceedings editors, who shall pass electronic copies of these agreements together with the EDITOR-AGREEMENT as part of the submission procedure.
Authors keep the right to publish a copy of the published original of their paper on their home page or via the institutional repository of their organization or via comparable repositories. The paper may also be publicly available via such sites. We kindly ask authors to specify in such cases the bibliographic details of the original publication of the paper at CEUR-WS.org. See below for example on how to reference the paper's bibliographic details.
Likewise, the author has the right to publish a pre-print, post-print or the published version of his CEUR-WS.org paper on his homepage, an institutional repository, or elsewhere. We advise authors to be careful about publishing versions of their paper that deviate from the originally published version because it could diminish the authenticity of the paper.
The editors confirm to us in the signed EDITOR-AGREEMENT that the authors continue to hold the copyright to their papers.
CEUR-WS.org acquires no rights to the papers in a proceedings volume, or to the volume as a whole, beyond the rights entailed by the author/editor agreements. The editors of the volume hold the right to publish the complete volume. The editors execute this right by submitting the volume on CEUR-WS.org. Authors do not have the right to demand the removal or update of their paper published at CEUR-WS.org, except for the cases mentioned in the author agreement. Any communication of authors about their papers shall instead be directed to the editors of their proceedings volume.
M. Lenzerini: Description logics for schema level reasoning in databases. Proc. of 1st Workshop KRDB'94, Saarbrücken, Germany, September 20-22, 1994, CEUR-WS.org, online CEUR-WS.org/Vol-1/lenzerini.pdf.Use CEUR-WS.org as 'publisher' for the paper even though the legal publsiher is RWTH Aachen. CEUR-WS.org is publication service run bu RWTH Aachen. A shorter form for citing a paper can be:
M. Lenzerini: Description logics for schema level reasoning in databases. Proc. of 1st Workshop KRDB'94, Saarbrücken, Germany, September 20-22, 1994, CEUR-WS.org/Vol-1/lenzerini.pdf.A whole proceedings volume can be referenced by its ONLINE URL as follows:
Enrico Franconi, Michael Kifer (eds.): Knowledge Representation meets Databases 1999. Proc. 6th Intl. Workshop KRDB'99, Linköping, Sweden, July 29-30, 1999, CEUR-WS.org, online CEUR-WS.org/Vol-21.We also assign a persistent identifier (URN) to proceedings volumes published at CEUR-WS.org. You can use the URN instead of the ONLINE URL like shown in this example:
Massimo Melucci, Stefano Mizzaro, Gabriella Pasi (eds.): Italian Information Retrieval Workshop 2010. Proceedings of the First Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR-2010), Padua, Italy, January 27-28, 2010, CEUR-WS.org/Vol-560, urn:nbn:de:0074-560-7.
We will continue to assign ONLINE URLs to new volumes. The URN is an additional identification scheme. The URN of a published volume can be mapped to its online location via a URN resolver. For example, https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0074-560-7 is resolved to CEUR-WS.org/Vol-560. The physical URL http://SunSITE.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/ should not be used for references! The URN is provided by Deutsche Nationalbiblothek. Individual papers do not (yet) have a URN.
Note that the ISSN number 1613-0073 identifies CEUR-WS.org as a publication series, not an individual volume within CEUR-WS.org! We recommend not to include the ISSN number in a citation of a paper that appeared in CEUR-WS.org. If you do prefer to include it, then insert the ISSN number after the label "CEUR Workshop Proceedings" or after the acronym CEUR-WS.org, not after the label of your workshop/conference or attached to your volume number. We do not issue ISBN numbers for volumes! Neither do we issue DOIs for individual papers or for volumes.
Here is how to cite a paper and a proceedings volume with BibTeX (assuming the BibLaTeX extension). We recommend to always create a separate @proceedings
entry for the volume, as it will facilitate citing two or more papers from that volume. Note that some volumes come with a ready-to-use BibTeX file.
@inproceedings{LM:Greycite2013, title = {Twenty-Five Shades of {Greycite}: Semantics for Referencing and Preservation}, author = {Phillip Lord and Lindsay Marshall}, pages = {10--21}, url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-994/paper-01.pdf}, crossref = {SePublica2013}, } @proceedings{SePublica2013, booktitle = {3\textsuperscript{rd} Workshop on Semantic Publishing (SePublica)}, year = 2013, editor = {Garc{\'i}a Castro, Alexander and Christoph Lange and Phillip Lord and Robert Stevens}, number = 994, series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings}, address = {Aachen}, issn = {1613-0073}, url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-994}, venue = {Montpellier, France}, eventdate = {2013-05-26}, title = {Proceedings of the 3\textsuperscript{rd} Workshop on Semantic Publishing, {Extended} {Semantic} {Web} {Conference}} }
DBLP indexes many CEUR-WS.org proceedings volumes. We do not have a formal relation with DBLP but cooperate with them to make it as easy as possible for them to index our proceedings volumes. However, there is no guarantee that your proceedings volume will be indexed automatically. You (as proceedings editor) are advised to contact DBLP yourself to check whether your volume shall be considered by DBLP for indexing. Other popular search engines and publication databases, e.g. Scopus, GoogleScholar etc. also crawl CEUR-WS.org or DBLP on a regular basis. We have no formal relation with any of them. If they have a wrong or missing entry on your publication, then you need to communicate with them, not with us! We have no communication channels to these indexers.
We discontinued the pre-registration of volume numbers (and thus URNs) by 2021-04-01.
You can check the URN of a volume number using the check digit calculation service of the German National Library. In this form, please enter urn:nbn:de:0074-XXXX-
, where XXXX
is a volume number.But note that we do no longer reserve volume numbers in advance. Hence, you can also not compute the URN in advance.
You hold the copyright to your paper. So, you are free to do so. You don't even have to ask us or the editor of your volume. Likewise, you can put a copy of your paper on your personal website. You can use the version of the paper published at CEUR-WS.org.
The second question is different. Putting a paper on an institutional repository is not a re-publication. It just is a copy of the same paper with the same bibliographic meta data. As a copyright holder, you could legally re-publish your paper also with another channel, e.g. by submitting it to another conference or a journal. This may legally be permitted, but it could establish a case of self-plagiarism or double publication. It is quite usual to extend a workshop or conference paper considerably and then submit it to a journal or a major conference. Some research communities, in particular from computer science, regard this as ethically acceptable as long as the extended version significantly exceeds the original paper and a reference to the original paper is given. We have no role in judging particular cases.
What concerns cumulative PhDs, there are no restrictions from our side. PhD students, who published their papers in a volume at CEUR-WS, retain the copyright to their papers. Kindly include a reference to the original publication at CEUR-WS. There is no need to ask us for permission.
You need permission from the authors, not from us. We do not see a reason to re-publish a paper that is anyway freely available at CEUR-WS.org.
Yes, just follow instructions at http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html.
If your submission (ZIP file with papers and ZIP file with signed agreements) meets our requirements, it takes only a couple of days in most cases. In 2014 and 2015 there were only 7 out of more than 400 volumes whose publication took longer than one week; in most cases this was due to the initial submission not meeting the requirements. In recent years, the number of submissions has increased significantly, leading to somewhat longer cycle times for publishing a submission. Hence, give us at least one week time before reminding us of your submission.
CEUR-WS.org is committed to publishing proceedings with a long term sustainability, both from a legal and from a technical perspective, and in a way that works easily for a wide audience. At the time of this writing (2016), trustable digital signatures based on cryptography would require considerable technical experience and infrastructure both on the side of the volume editors and on our side. So far, a scan or photograph of a hand-written signature on printed paper is the only signature that meets all these requirements. All kinds of digital imagery that does not involve cryptography, such as hand signatures produced with a digital pen, are too easy to forge, and thus not acceptable. Note that we do not regard signatures made on touch-sensitive screens as valid.
2020-03-28: Due to the fact that currently many are working in their home offices, we temporarily accept an alternative to signing the form by hand on paper. You can also fill in the form on the computer and place a hand-signed statement below the form and then take a photo of it, see example surrogate agreement.An example of a sub-series is the AI*IA Series. If you are interested in having your own sub-series, you first need to make sure that you fulfill the following requirements:
No.
No. At this moment, we only support CC-BY 4.0 as the single license for both papers and volumes. The license clause in the paper must be as specified here.
Special cases: If an author is a Crown employee (e.g. UK government), the copyright of the paper may be with the Crown. Then, use the license clause "Crown Copyright © JJJJ. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)." for the paper. If the author is an employee of the US government, then there may be no copyright with the paper. In this case, use the license clause "No copyright. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).".
No. The logo is reserved for official use at CEUR-WS.org. When advertising your workshop, you may use a phrase like "Proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication" in your Call for Papers.
This is allowed for the official version published at CEUR-WS. If a web-accessible version of the paper contains the CEUR-WS logo, then it must be identical to the version of the paper published on CEUR-WS. Authors can put the original CEUR-WS version of their paper in their institutional repository or their home page. If authors want to publish a version of their paper that deviates from the version published at CEUR-WS, then the CEUR-WS logo must be removed from the that version!
No. We do not maintain such counters.
CEUR-WS supports the publication of computer-science workshops (and conferences). We sometimes receive submissions that apears to have only marginal relations to computer science. To check the relevance to computer science, we may request editors to provide us with data on how many publications authors and PC members have in the DBLP bibliography. Typically, we demand that each paper has at least one author with at least 5 papers listed in DBLP. PC members should have a higher number of papers in DBLP. The precise thresholds may change and will be specified in our request. The DBLP footprint ist just a simple textfile that editors add to the submission file that contains the requested data. Passing the DBLP footprint test does not guarantee that we shall publish a submission though. All other criteria must also be met. Note that you should not include ArXiv and other non peer-reviewed papers in your DBLP listing. Doctoral consortiums affiliated to well-known conferences are exempted from the rule on DBLP listed papers, but in such cases the program committee members should have a good representation in DBLP.
No. Only natural persons can be authors of a paper published in CEUR-WS. Likewise, only natural persons can be
editors of a volume in CEUR-WS.