In connection with its publishing activities, it is the policy of the ACCS to own the copyrights to all copyrightable material in its technical publications, and to the individual contributions contained therein.This is done in order to protect the interests of the ACCS, authors and their employers, and, to facilitate the appropriate re-use of this material by others. The ACCS distributes its technical publications throughout the world and does so by various means such as hard copy, electronic media etc. It also abstracts and may translate its publications, and articles contained therein, for inclusion in various compendiums and similar publications. When an article is submitted for publication to the ACCS, the ACCS assumes that its acceptance of the article gives ACCS the rights to do all of the things it normally does with such an article.
ACCS assumes that material presented at its meetings or submitted to its publications is properly available for general dissemination to the audiences these activities are organized to serve. It is the responsibility of the authors, not the ACCS, to determine whether disclosure of their material requires the prior consent of other parties and, if so, to obtain it.
Furthermore, the ACCS assumes that if an author uses within his/her article previously published and/or copyrighted material, permission for such use been obtained and that any required credit lines, copyright notices, etc. are duly noted.
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ACCS No Show Policy
An author (or at least one of contributing authors), in offering a paper for presentation at an ACCS meeting or accepting an invitation to present a paper, is expected to be present at the meeting to deliver the paper.
In the event that circumstances unknown at the time of submission of a paper preclude its presentation by an author, the technical program chair should be informed on time so that appropriate substitute arrangements can be made.
It is the ACCS policy that ‘no show’ presentations/papers will be withdrawn from the proceedings of the meeting. ACCS will notify authors prior to, or at time of submission, that their papers may be excluded from proceedings should they fail to appear at the conference.
ACCS discourages withdrawals of papers once submitted and included in the program. The authors are encouraged to get all necessary company and/or government approvals prior to submitting the paper to the conference.
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