Conferences

Applying for IEEE Computer Society

Technical Co-Sponsorship (TCS)

Thank you for your interest in having the IEEE Computer Society be a technical co-sponsor (TCS) for your conference.

Technical Co-Sponsorship (TCS) may be requested by completing the required data fields and submitting a "Request for Technical Co-sponsorship" application, available through the link below.

The application will be reviewed by the IEEE Computer Society's Technical & Conference Activities Board.

Please Note: The sponsorship decision-making process can take six or more weeks.

Technical Co-Sponsorship Status means:

◊ The IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) is lending its name to the meeting, though will
have no financial or legal responsibility for the meeting.

◊ IEEE members will pay the member registration rate.

◊ The IEEE-CS will establish a link from our Conference Calendar Web site to your conference's
home page.

◊ You may use both the IEEE and IEEE-CS logos
(you may NOT use IEEE in the name of the conference).

How to complete the Technical Co-Sponsorship application:

Review the IEEE-CS Conference Calendar Web site to determine what other IEEE-CS sponsored conferences are scheduled to be held during the dates that you are considering. The scheduling of your conference should not be in competition with other CS-sponsored conferences in the same topic/field area. The Web site is located at http://computer.org/conferences/calendar.htm

An IEEE-CS Technical Committee or Technical Council (TC) Chair must provide a "Statement of Benefits"
to justify endorsement of the TCS application and technical co-sponsorship.

A list of the IEEE-CS TCs/chairs is located at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tandc/tclist

Please Note: The TC will not receive financial benefits or added entitlement from a conference that is granted technical co-sponsorship. The TC chair must email his/her completed "Statement of Benefits" directly to tcsrequest@computer.org

Please Note: To preserve the IEEE Computer Society's 501(c)(3) Tax Exempt status, IEEE Technical Committees are unable to Technically Co-Sponsor conferences which have a majority financial sponsor that is a For-Profit Entity. For profit and other organizations can, however, provide donations as indicated in IEEE Policies Section 10.1.23. IEEE Policies Section 10 can be found on the IEEE web site at http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/whatis/policies/p10-1.1.html.

Please Note: There is a $350 (US dollars) non-refundable charge for processing each submission of the technical co-sponsorship application. Please follow the instructions on the payment form. You will receive a receipt after your payment transaction has been confirmed. This non-refundable charge MUST be paid before the application is processed.
NOTE: A full credit equal to the TCS processing fee (US$350) will appear on the final invoice
for approved conferences that publish through CPS.

If you wish to pay the TCS processing fee by credit card, please contact Jeannie A. Smith at jasmith@computer.org Please make sure to include the acronym and year of the conference in the subject line of your message to Jeannie.

ANNOUNCEMENT: The IEEE Conferences Committee passed a motion to charge a $500 USD non-publishing fee when a conference that receives IEEE technical cosponsorship does not contribute a proceedings to the IEEE Xplore digital library. This new policy applies to all IEEE societies.

Conferences that are requesting technical cosponsorship through the IEEE Computer Society and will not be publishing through CPS or posting their proceedings into the IEEE Xplore digital library will be expected to pay this fee in advance.

The exact wording of this new IEEE policy hasn't yet been released. We will update this announcement once we received the written policy statement.

Submit the completed TCS application to tcsrequest@computer.org Before submitting you must:

◊ Complete the payment of $350 USD (non-refundable processing fee)

◊ Confirm the TC Chair has e-mailed the "Statement of Benefits" to tcsrequest@computer.org

Please Note: We ask that you send all the required documentation, processing fees and "Statement of Benefits" at least 90 days prior to your conference start date. If necessary, please send reminders to the TC chair if he/she doesn't respond to your requests in a timely manner.

to download the Technical Co-Sponsorship (TCS) application.

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Conference Operations Team
IEEE Computer Society
tcsrequest@computer.org
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For your conference publishing needs, please contact

IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services (CPS)

For your convenience, the following link will take you to our online publishing inquiry form through CPS Online

http://www.computer.org/cps

CPS Online is our collaborative conference publishing environment. This new system will speed the delivery of your quote and provide your "Primary Contact" with real-time access to all of your project's publication materials during production, including the final submitted papers.

CPS Online's workspace gives your conference the opportunity to

◊ upload files through any Web browser,

◊ check status and scheduling on your project,

◊ make changes to the Table of Contents and Front Matter,

◊ approve editorial changes and proofs, and

◊ communicate with your CPS editor through discussion forums, chat tools, commenting tools
and e-mail.

Authors will be able to complete the copyright transfer process online and submit their final papers through our improved online "Author's Final Paper Formatting and Submission Instructions" Webpage (Online Author Kit).

Please contact Andrea Thibault-Sanchez (cps@computer.org) if you have any troubles with the online form - or have any questions or concerns regarding the benefits and services of CPS.