FAQ
FAQ for User, Authors and Reviewers
This page is essentially a user manual for the Microsoft CMT paper management system used for submissions to this conference. Many of the answers to the questions on this page are linked to the Microsoft CMT help documentation, where detailed answers and guides can be found. The complete Help Document is available on the Microsoft CMT website. The information provided here covers important topics such as registering for an account with Microsoft CMT, submitting an article or abstract, and reviewing the submissions. The FAQ is divided into two sections, one for the users and authors and the other for the reviewers. There are also YouTube help videos and other Internet articles related to Microsoft CMT.
Users and Authors
Whether you are an author, a reviewer, or a chair, the first step is registering for an account with Microsoft CMT. It is a simple two-step process. Access the User Registration Form. Enter your details. Submit the form. Confirm registration by logging into your email account, opening the email from CMT, and clicking the link to confirm the registration and email address.
The General FAQ Section of the Microsoft CMT Help Documentation has answers to many login-related issues. Please review the General FAQ Section.
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/TASME2024 Please note that you still have to log into the website to access the paper management system.
Access the Microsoft CMT help document for a detailed listing of the steps to submit the paper. In particular, access the Author Submission Section of the Help Document. Each conference is different. Not all the steps need to be followed in each conference.
Microsoft CMT website has a page dedicated for FAQs from authors. Access the FAQ for Authors document.
When you access the CMT website, you will find a link entitled DOCS at the bottom of your screen. Click on that link. Otherwise, click the CMT Help Document link to access the manual.
You will find help with submitting a paper, submitting supplementary material, editing co-authors, managing paper notifications, submitting feedback, accessing additional comments for authors, submitting a camera-ready version of the abstract or article, and emailing the Program Committee members in the CMT Help Document.
All authors from South Asian countries whose papers or abstracts are accepted for presentation at the Conference will receive a fee waiver. Instructions related to the fee waiver will be emailed to the authors of accepted abstracts and papers a week to ten days before the start of the Conference.
Reviewers
Before accessing the paper for review, you must first register with the Microsoft CMT paper management system. Access the paper management system and enter the information.
The Subject Chair will send you an invitation to become a reviewer for the Conference. You can either be a registered user on the CMT website or you are yet to become a member. The Reviewer Accept Invite Overview section in the CMT Help Document provides information on becoming a reviewer in both cases.
The Subject Chair will generally assign the reviewers to the subject areas. Sometimes, when an invitation is sent to the reviewer, they may be given the option to select the subject area. The steps for choosing the subject area are listed in the Microsoft CMT help document. It is a simple two-step process.
You must be registered with CMT to access the paper management system. After registering, you can search for the conference and click the conference link to access the reviewer’s console on CMT. The steps to access the CMT are described in the help documentation.
Yes, it is possible to do the review offline. However, this approach is not recommended. Further information on offline review can be found at the bottom of the review guideline page in the documentation.
Subject Chairs (Meta-Reviewers)
Each subject in the Conference has a Chair. For this conference, there are no tracks. Instead, the focus areas are divided into subjects that could be considered equivalent to tracks. The Subject Chair for each subject is the meta-reviewer for the subject. The meta-reviewer for each subject is responsible for assigning reviewers and communicating the acceptance of abstract and papers for the conference.
The senior meta-reviewer is the overall administrator for the paper management system CMT. The meta-reviewers will communicate with the senior meta-reviewer to enable the abstracts and papers to be included in the conference proceedings. The senior meta-reviewer is also responsible for drafting the conference schedule.
The Conference Chair will invite you to become a meta-reviewer for the Conference. The Meta-Reviewer Accept Invite Overview section in the CMT Help Document provides information on becoming a meta-reviewer. Invitations are sent to users who have not yet registered on CMT. For this conference, the meta-reviewers, who are also subject chairs, will be manually assigned by the conference chair after requesting them to register for the conference.
Since the Conference Chair will have prior knowledge of the subject chairs, who are the meta-reviewers for the subject areas, they will be assigned to the subject areas by the Chair. Sometimes, although unlikely, an invitation may be sent to meta-reviewers requesting them to select a subject area. The steps for choosing the subject area are listed in the Microsoft CMT help document. It is a simple two-step process.
There are two ways to add a reviewer to the conference. One is to add the reviewer from the list of reviewers who have already joined the Conference. The other is to invite a potential reviewer to the Conference. Both are explained in the Add/Assign/Invite section of the CMT help documentation.
A meta-reviewer, who is also the Subject Chair, can assign papers to reviewers. Reviewers can be selected from the existing pool of reviewers in the Conference. Someone not registered with CMT could also be invited to be a reviewer. If a potential reviewer is not already registered with CMT, the recommendation is to first invite the reviewer to register with CMT. Once registered, the reviewer can be selected and assigned to papers for review by the meta-reviewer. The procedure for assigning papers is described in the Meta-reviewer, Adding a Reviewer section of the CMT help documentation.
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