Submission Guidline

Submission Guidline

To submit an abstract, please Click Here. You can refer to the following guidelines for submissions.

Account Creation

First, you need to create your user account in CMT, if you do not already have one.

If you are already a CMT user, please skip this step.

Navigate to site https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/User/Login and click “Register”

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Enter your personal information. Fields with an * asterisk are required.

Check the Agree to Terms of Use checkbox and click ‘Register’.

The “Welcome to CMT” page appears and notifies you that an email has been sent to you for verification.

The email should look like this:

After you click the link in the email, you should see the Account Verification page. You can then use the “click here” link to log into CMT.

Author Submission

Log into CMT and click the link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/OFCW2023/Submission/Index/.

Click the “+ Create new submission” button.

Author-Submission-Form

The Author section is pre-populated with your profile information and you are pre-selected as the Primary Contact.

To add a co-author, enter the co-author’s email address into the field (in yellow below) and click add.

If the co-author you would like to add is not a CMT user, you will see “User was not found. To add a new user, please enter the information below and click Add Button. If the co-author is already a CMT user, the co-author will be added to the end of the Author list.

Enter the co-author’s personal information and click the Add button. Once added, the co-author’s profile should appear in the list.

You may change the Primary Contact to the co-author by clicking the Primary Contact radio button in the co-author’s row. The ‘X’ and ‘arrow’ icons at the end of the rows are there so you may delete the entry and/or move it up or down.

Now you need to fill out all known Domain Conflicts. As noted in the instruction, do not enter public webmail providers as institution domains.

To upload submission files, drag and drop the file into the dotted region or click the “Upload from Computer” button. The uploaded file will not be saved unless the Submit button at the bottom of the page is clicked.

Once the form is filled out with all the required information, click Submit.

If the Chair enabled the Edit Conflicts of Interest page, this page will appear after clicking Submit. If it is not enabled, the Submissions Summary page will appear. To edit this page, you can click the “Edit” dropdown on the right, select all the appropriate boxes, and click Done. The Submission Summary page will then appear.

Authors may also email a confirmation manually by clicking on the “Email” button on the right. You have the option to send it to yourself or all authors. Click send Email.

The email that the system sends to the Author(s) looks like this:

When the Edit Submission phase is enabled, authors will be able to edit their submission by clicking the link.

When the Edit Submission phase is enabled, authors will be able to delete their submission by clicking the link.

If the chair enables the setting Allowing author to withdraw submission paper after the deadline then the author can then click the Withdraw Submission link (once it appears after the deadline). We suggest your contacting the chair of the conference to clarify if and when the paper can be withdrawn.