Non-Presented Paper (No-Show) Policy: Any accepted paper included in the final program
is expected to have at least one author or qualified proxy attend and present the paper at the
conference. If a paper is not presented at the conference, the paper will not be published by
IEEE on IEEE Xplore® or other public access forums, but these papers will be distributed to
conference attendees as conference proceedings and the copyright of these papers will belong
to IEEE. For poster sessions, if the speaker is not present in front of the poster for most
of the time during the poster session, this also implies the paper was not presented. Conference
organizers are required to collect attendance records and a list of any non-presented papers and
submit to IEEE SPS staff.
Exceptions to this policy will be made by the Technical Program Chair(s) of the conference only
if there is evidence that the no-show occurred because of unanticipated events beyond the control
of the authors, and every option available to the authors to present the paper was exhausted. The
no-show authors may appeal the decision of the Technical Program Chair to the VP-Conferences.
