IEEE policies

By submitting a paper, authors agree to comply with all IEEE policies:

Guidelines for Use of Generative AI Tools

We refer authors to IEEE policies.

  1. Authors are allowed to use generative AI tools to prepare their papers, with explicit disclosure on how the generative AI tools are used in the Acknowledgement section.
  2. Generative AI tools cannot be listed as an author.
  3. All the co-authors take full responsibility for the contents of their paper. The use of AI systems for editing and grammar enhancement is common practice and, as such, is generally outside the intent of the above policy. In this case, disclosure as noted above is not required, but recommended.

Authorship

IEEE policies dictate that authorship should be based on a substantial intellectual contribution. It is assumed that all authors have had a significant role in the creation of an article that bears their names. In particular, authorship credit must be reserved only for individuals who have met each of the following conditions:

  1. Made a significant intellectual contribution to the theoretical development, system or experimental design, prototype development, and/or the analysis and interpretation of data associated with the work contained in the article.
  2. Contributed to drafting the article, or reviewed and/or revised it for intellectual content.
  3. Approved the final version of the article as accepted for publication, including references.

For more information, please refer to the detailed descriptions of the ACM Criteria for Authorship and the IEEE Publication Principles, covering authorship guidelines and responsibilities.

Honorary or gift authorship is not acceptable.

All authors must be declared at the time of submission. Addition or removal of authors after submission should require approval from the program chairs, since it potentially undermines the goal of eliminating conflicts for reviewer assignment.

Conflict of Interest

Authors must register all their conflicts for their paper submission. Conflicts are needed to ensure the appropriate assignment of reviewers. If a paper is found to have an undeclared conflict that causes a problem, or if a paper is found to declare false conflicts to abuse or “game” the review system, the paper may be rejected without review. We use the following conflict of interest guidelines for determining the conflict period for IISWC 2026. Please declare a conflict of interest (COI) with the following people for any author of your paper:

  1. Your Ph.D. advisor(s), post-doctoral advisor(s), Ph.D. students, and post-doctoral advisees, forever.
  2. Family members, forever (if they might be potential reviewers).
  3. People who have collaborated in the last FOUR years. This collaboration can consist of a joint research or development project, a joint paper, or a pending or awarded joint proposal. Co-participation in professional education (e.g., workshops/tutorials), service (e.g., program committees), and other non-research-focused activities does not generally constitute a conflict. When in doubt, the author(s) should check with the program chairs.
  4. People who were at the same institution in the last FOUR years.
  5. Among the leadership of research structures supported by an umbrella funding award (i.e., people making funding decisions or representing members’ work before the funding agency) and other members under that umbrella award.
  6. Among PIs of research structures supported under the same umbrella funding award who (1) participate regularly in non-public meetings sponsored by that umbrella award, and (2) are regularly exposed to presentations or discussions of unpublished work at such meetings.
  7. People whose relationship prevents the reviewer from being objective in his/her assessment.

We would also like to emphasize that the following scenarios do not constitute a conflict:

  1. Authors of previously published, closely related work on that basis alone.
  2. “Service” collaborations such as co-authoring a report for a professional organization, serving on a program committee, or co-presenting tutorials.
  3. Co-authoring a paper that is a compendium of various projects, community-wide tools (e.g., gem5), non-research articles, or working groups (e.g., RISC-V), with no true collaboration among the projects.
  4. People who work on topics similar to or related to those in your papers.
  5. People under the same umbrella funding award where there is no close collaboration, no discussion of unpublished work, and no joint benefit in the paper being published.

We hope to draw most reviewers from the program committee, but others from the community may also write reviews. Please declare all your conflicts, not just those restricted to the PC. When in doubt, please contact the program chairs.

Concurrent Submissions & Workshops Policies

By submitting a manuscript to IISWC 2026, the authors guarantee that the manuscript has not been previously published or accepted for publication in a substantially similar form in any conference, journal, or the archived proceedings of a workshop (e.g., in the ACM/IEEE digital library) — see exceptions below. The authors also guarantee that no paper that contains significant overlap with the contributions of the submitted paper will be under review for any other conference or journal or an archived proceedings of a workshop during the IISWC 2026 review period. Violation of any of these conditions will lead to rejection.

The only exceptions to the above rules are for the authors’ own papers in:

  • workshops without archived proceedings, such as in the ACM/IEEE digital library (or where the authors chose not to have their paper appear in the archived proceedings), or
  • venues such as IEEE CAL or arXiv, where there is an explicit policy that such publication does not preclude longer conference submissions.

In all such cases, manuscripts may still be submitted, but should use a different title for the version you submit to IISWC. In addition, it is important to note that ACM/IEEE prohibit authors from reusing their own text or figures without attribution; doing otherwise either violates rules regarding plagiarism or anonymity. This applies to published works only, i.e., not IEEE CAL or arXiv works. As always, if you are in doubt, it is best to contact the program chairs.

Plagiarism Policies

The following covers a range of ethical issues concerning the misrepresentation of other works or one’s own work.

Submission Website

https://iiswc2026.hotcrp.com/

This document is derived from previous conferences, in particular, IISWC 2025, ISCA 2026, and MICRO 2026.