The 'Paper Designator'

As a congress of multiple conferences and symposia, SERVICES 2022 accepts papers via multiple channels, each of which tends to use serially assigned paper IDs. While these IDs are unique within their originating conference, they are not unique across the full congress – which can make it difficult and time-consuming for publication staff to properly correlate incoming papers with their acceptance, registration, and publication status. To address this problem, we ask that after your paper is accepted, you always refer to it via a unique conference ID. This ID has three fields: one that identifies the conference, one that specifies the type of paper (short, long, invited, wip, symposia, etc.) and one that connects the paper to its original conference submission id.

(See the “Paper Designators” section of this page)

If you do not supply the proper Paper Designator in the last step of the camera-ready submission process (see below), we may not be able to properly identify your paper during the publication process.

During the submission and publication process, you will interact with several separate systems:

• Your initial submission is to a specific conference site hosted on EasyChair. When you submit your paper to EasyChair, the paper will be assigned a numerical id that is unique within the scope of the relevant conference. This numerical id (“submission id”) will become the third (right-hand) part of your paper designator. (This number may also appear in your acceptance letter.) Generally this “submission id” is three digits or less. If it is less than three digits, you should zero pad on the left to fill three digits. If it is four digits, retain all four and do not pad. The (optionally padded) result will become the third (right most) field in your paper designator.
• After your paper is accepted you will submit a camera-ready pdf to a “press pre-flight” application. This application tests whether your paper’s encoding conforms to the requirements of the publication process. If/when your paper passes this test, you will receive a link to an enhanced pdf and a long numeric “verification code.” Do not use the verification/validation code in the next step.
• After your camera-ready pdf has been verified, you will upload the enhanced version of the camera-ready pdf to the CPS “Author kit” site. You will be asked to complete several forms during this process. The second page of these forms, the “Paper Details” form, includes an input field labelled “Paper ID” (see below). You should put the three part “Paper Designator” in this field. See below.