<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0cm;"><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CALL FOR PAPERS -- ACM IVA 2023</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The annual ACM Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) is the premier international event for </span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> interdisciplinary research on the development, application, and evaluation of Intelligent Virtual Agents </span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">with the specific focus on the ability to socially interact. Such agents can be embodied graphically (e.g.</span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> virtual characters, embodied conversational agents) or physically (e.g. robots). They are capable of real-</span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">time perception, cognition, emotion and action allowing them to participate in dynamic social </span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> environments. This includes human-like interaction qualities such as multimodal communication using</span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> facial expressions, speech, and gesture, conversational interaction, socially assistive and affective</span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> interaction, interactive task-oriented cooperation, or social behaviour simulation. IVAs are highly relevant </span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">and widely applied in many important domains including health, tutoring, training, games, or assisted </span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">living.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We invite submissions of research on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: theoretical foundations of intelligent virtual agents, agent and interactive behaviour modelling, evaluation, agents in simulations, games, and other applications. Please see the detailed list of topics below.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">VENUE</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">======</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">IVA 2023 will take place in Würzburg, Germany. Würzburg is a vibrant town located by the river Main in northern Bavaria, between Frankfurt and Nuremberg. The mix of stunning historical architecture and the young population is what makes the atmosphere so unique, including 35,000 students from three different universities. The mild and sunny climate is ideal to enjoy the many activities Würzburg has to offer: visiting a beer garden next to the river, attending a sporting or cultural event or taking a stroll through one of the parks. </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">IVA is targeted to be an in-person conference. In case of extraordinary circumstances, such as visa </span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">problems or health issues, video presentation will be possible. However, there is no digital or hybrid </span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">conference system planned, thus it is not possible to attend this year’s IVA conference remotely.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> IMPORTANT DATES</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> ===================</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Abstract submission: April 14, 2023</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Paper submission: April 18, 2023</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Review notification / start of rebuttal: May 31, 2023</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Notification of acceptance: June 23, 2023</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Camera ready deadline: July 18, 2023</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Conference: September 19-22, 2023</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> All deadlines are anywhere on earth (UTC−12).</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> TYPES OF SUBMISSION</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> ===================</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Full Papers (7 pages + 1 additional page for references):</span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> Full papers should present significant, novel, and substantial work of high quality.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Extended Abstracts (2 pages + 1 additional page for references): </span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> Extended abstracts may contain early results and work in progress.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Demos (2 pages + 1 additional page for references +1 one page with demo requirements):</span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> Demos submissions focus on implemented systems and should contain a link to a video of the system</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> with a maximum length of 5 minutes.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> All submissions will be double-blind peer-reviewed by a group of external expert reviewers. All accepted</span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> submissions will be published in the ACM proceedings and the ACM Digital Library.</span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> Accepted full papers will be presented either in oral sessions or as posters during the conference</span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> (depending on the nature of the contribution), extended abstracts will be presented as posters, and</span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> demos will be showcased in dedicated sessions during the conference. For each accepted contribution, at </span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> least one of the authors must register for the conference.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> IVA 2023 will also feature workshops and a doctoral consortium. Please visit the website</span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> (<a href="https://iva.acm.org/2023">https://iva.acm.org/2023</a>) </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">for more details and updates.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> TRACKS</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">========</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For full paper submissions, IVA will have different paper tracks with different review criteria. Authors</span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> need to indicate which one of the following tracks they want to submit their paper to:</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 14px;">1. Empirical Studies — </span></span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">criteria: methodology, theoretical foundation, originality of result etc.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 14px;">2. Computational Models and Methods —</span></span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> criteria: technical soundness, novelty of the model or approach, proof of concept, etc.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 14px;">3. Operational Systems and Applications — </span></span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> criteria: innovation of the application, societal relevance, evaluation of effects, etc.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> ========================</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> IVA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> AGENT DESIGN AND MODELING:</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Cognition (e.g. task, social, other)</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Emotion, personality and cultural differences</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Socially communicative behaviour (e.g., of emotions, personality, relationship)</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Conversational and dialog behavior</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Social perception and understanding of other’s states or traits</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Machine learning approaches to agent modeling</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Adaptive behavior and interaction dynamics</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Models informed by theoretical and empirical research from psychology</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> MULTIMODAL INTERACTION:</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Verbal and nonverbal behavior coordination (synthesis)</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Multimodal/social behavior processing</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Face-to-face communication skills</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Interaction qualities engagement, rapport, etc.)</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Managing co-presence and interpersonal relation</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Multi-party interaction</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Data-driven modeling</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> SOCIALLY INTERACTIVE AGENT ARCHITECTURES:</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Design criteria and design methodologies</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Engineering of real-time human-agent interaction</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Standards / measures to support interoperability</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Portability and reuse</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Specialized tools, toolkits, and toolchains</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> EVALUATION METHODS AND EMPIRICAL STUDIES:</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Evaluation methodologies and user studies</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Metrics and measures</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Ethical considerations and societal impact</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Applicable lessons across fields (e.g. between robotics and virtual agents)</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Social agents as a means to study and model human behavior</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> APPLICATIONS:</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Applications in education, skills training, health, counseling, games, art, etc.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Virtual agents in games and simulations</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Social agents as tools in psychology, neuroscience, social simulation, etc</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - Migration between platforms</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> SPECIAL SESSION</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> ===================</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In addition to the traditional IVA topics, this year’s conference plans a special session on “</span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">IVAs in future</span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> mixed realities”, e.g., in social VR and potential incarnations of a Metaverse. Immersive and potentially</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> distributed artificial virtual worlds provide new forms of full-size embodied human-human interaction via</span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> avatars of arbitrary looks, enabling interesting intra- and interpersonal effects. They also enable hybrid</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> avatar-agent interactions between humans and A.I.s, unlocking the full potential of non-verbal behavior</span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> in digital face-to-face encounters, significantly enhancing the design space for IVAs to assist, guide, help</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> but also to persuade and affect interacting users. We welcome all kinds of novel research on</span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> technological, psychological, and sociological determinants of such immersive digital avatar-agent</span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> encounters for this special session.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> =========================</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Paper submissions should be anonymous and prepared in the “ACM Standard” format, more specifically</span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> the “SigConf” format. 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