Submission Guidelines

Formatting Guidelines

• The paper should be in English and contain unpublished contributions to the data mining and related fields.
• The paper should not exceed 15 pages in LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) format.
• Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with the LNAI format.
• For the template and details on the LNCS style, see Springer's Author Instructions.
• Submissions are reviewed in a double-blind manner. For ADMA'23, the double-blind means that:

• Author identities and affiliations are not disclosed to reviewers during the review process.
• Authors prepare and submit suitably blinded manuscripts that do not reveal author information. Specific requirements to this end are discussed below.
• Authors and reviewers alike make an honest effort to avoid accidentally de-blinding any submission.

Submitted papers must comply with all of the rules below. Any violation may result in an automatic rejection.

Document Preparation

• Authors must submit PDFs without author names and affiliations. Submitted PDFs must also not contain any metadata that could reveal author identities or affiliations.
• Authors should aim to avoid copy&pasting substantial amounts of text from their own prior publications, as such text blocks may be readily recognized by experts familiar with the state of the art and recent papers in the area.
• Similarly, authors should not directly reuse figures from their own prior publications without attribution. Ideally, “fresh” figures should be prepared and used whenever possible. If that is not a viable option, that is, if a figure must be reused, then a citation should be included giving credit to the original paper from which the illustration has been adapted.
• Authors must refrain from using any specific formatting tricks, linguistic mannerisms, figure styles, or other stylistic idioms that could hint at or disclose the author identity or affiliation.
• Submitted papers should not include an acknowledgements section or funding acknowledgements (even when blinded) since it can indicate the country of residence of (some of) the authors. (Such acknowledgements of course may be added to the camera-ready version.)

Own Prior Work, Well-Known Projects, and Research Artifacts

• Authors should not upload their manuscript to preprint servers (such as arXiv) or their personal websites while the paper is under review, or otherwise publicly reveal their authorship of the manuscript under review.
• As an exception to the previous rule, if a prior version of the manuscript has already been uploaded to a public preprint server prior to submission (e.g., if the paper is a re-submission of a paper previously rejected at another single-blind conference), then the paper may still be submitted to ADMA'23. However, such papers must be blinded when submitted to ADMA.
• In exceptional circumstances that force a violation of the above two rules (e.g., a technical report or thesis must be filed in order for a student to graduate), the authors should contact the Program Chair prior to publicizing their manuscript content to avoid misunderstandings.
• When submitting or extending a prior workshop publication, the workshop paper is treated as an online preprint for the purpose of the double-blind peer-review process. However, authors must proactively disclose the existence of a prior workshop version of a submitted paper. Such information should be emailed to the Program Chair. Failure to disclose a prior workshop publication is considered self-plagiarism.
• After communicating with the Program Chair, submissions with conditions 2., 3., or 4. above are recommended to add a headline (or footer) on the first page with the following information: “This submission is based on Preprints, Paper Announcements, and Prior Workshop Papers. The information has been communicated with the Program Chair. The author(s) and the Program Chair request the reviewers not to actively search for the author names to ensure fairness of the double-blind review process.” Please contact the Program Chair at least 24 hours before the submission deadline if this may apply to your submission. If the paper is accepted, the above text should be removed and appropriate citations if any should be added (e.g., citation for prior workshop paper, technical report or thesis and its relation to the accepted paper).
• If your submission is an extended version of a workshop paper with DOI, you will be asked to provide a blinded version of the workshop paper as supplementary material. This will be used by the reviewers to verify that there is sufficient amount of new material in the extended version to warrant a publication at ADMA.

Preprints, Paper Announcements, and Prior Workshop Papers

• Authors should not upload their manuscript to preprint servers (such as arXiv) or their personal websites while the paper is under review, or otherwise publicly reveal their authorship of the manuscript under review.
• In exceptional circumstances that force a violation of the above rule, the authors should contact the PC chair prior to publicizing their manuscript to avoid misunderstandings.
• When extending a prior workshop publication, authors must proactively disclose the existence of a prior workshop version of a submitted paper. The paper submission form provides a field for this purpose. Failure to disclose a prior workshop publication is considered self-plagiarism.
• As an exception to the double-blind policy, if an extended version of a workshop paper is marked for acceptance (i.e., after a paper has been reviewed and discussed), the track chair will de-blind the paper, point out the prior workshop version, and ask the reviewers to verify that there is a sufficient amount of substantially new material in the extended version to warrant publication at ADMA.

Online Appendices and Supplemental Materials

• Authors who seek to refer to an online appendix or to supplemental materials (e.g., source code, videos, etc.) may still do so. However, instead of directly providing a URL or tech report number, authors should include a note that the appendices and/or supplemental materials in question are available from the track chair upon request.
• Authors must provide all supplemental materials and/or appendices that a submission refers to in blinded form and sent them to the PC chair by email (or other approaches appointed by the PC chair) before the submission deadline.
• The track chair will retain a copy of all submitted materials for the duration of the reviewing process. Any such provided appendices or supplemental materials are not subject to review and may be consulted by the reviewers at their own discretion.

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