Instructions for authors

APKC 2025 adopts the following two-round submission policy. Basically, authors will receive either Accept or Reject in the 1st notification. Meanwhile, a few authors may receive a Resubmission Notification, which means that they are recommended to resubmit their papers with a reply letter. Then, they will receive either Accept or Reject in the 2nd notification. Note that this is NOT Conditional Acceptance, and the papers are automatically rejected if we do not get the authors' resubmission. We do not accept any new submissions in the resubmission phase.

Technical papers submitted for APKC are to be written in English. Papers must be at most 8 pages excluding bibliography and appendices, and at most 10 pages in total. Committee members are not obligated to read appendices, and a paper must be intelligible without the appendices.

Submissions must follow the new ACM conference template, which has been updated on June 4, 2024. (Use sigconf style) Submissions should not use older ACM formats or non-standard formatting. Submissions must be in Portable Document Format (.pdf). Authors should devote special care that fonts, images, tables and figures comply with common standards and do not generate problems for reviewers.

Double-blind Review Process

APKC requires a double-blind reviewing process. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized. Author names and affiliations should not appear in the paper. The authors should avoid obvious self-references and should appropriately blind them if used. The list of authors cannot be changed after the acceptance decision is made unless approved by the Program Chairs.

Submissions to APKC 2025 must not substantially overlap with papers that are published or simultaneously submitted to other venues (including journals or conferences/workshops). Double-submission will result in immediate rejection. Detected violations may be reported to other conference chairs and journal editors.

The Program Committee reserves the right to reject any paper that does not abide by the rules without considering its technical merits. Note that to attend APKC 2025, please make a registration for AsiaCCS 2025.

Conflict of Interest

When submitting the paper, authors must declare the conflict of interest (COI) with the Program Committee members, including the chairs. Those who are considered COI include:

• Anyone who shares an institutional affiliation with an author of the paper at the time of submission
• Anyone who was the advisor or advisee of an author at any time in the past
• Anyone the author has collaborated with or published within the prior two years