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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please consider submitting your work to <a href="https://imc2024.hotcrp.com/">
ACM IMC 2024</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Abstract registration (May 8th)</b> and <b>paper submission (May 15<sup>th</sup>) deadlines</b> are quickly approaching (see details in the CFP below)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are looking forward to see your submission and you in Madrid!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ignacio<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:27.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">Call For Papers, ACM IMC 2024</span><span style="font-size:27.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) is a highly selective venue for the presentation of measurement-based research in data communications. As we are in the era of data-driven
research, IMC 2024 will focus on improving the standard in the collection, usage, and sharing of network measurements for the research community. Despite the efforts in stimulating reproducibility of research as well as sharing of data, little progress has
been made in our community to make research data open. Therefore, without fundamentally changing the topics in scope compared to previous years, our attention when assessing contributions will be particularly on the willingness of the authors to share their
data and make their work reproducible.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">To encourage data sharing and reproducibility, authors will be required to make a declaration on artifact availability (full, partial, or no availability) for the submitted work. Since
legitimate reasons (such as proprietary and privacy reasons) may prevent authors from sharing artifacts, papers will be assessed based on whether the contributions warrant acceptance despite the lack of artifact availability. In the case of no availability
of artifacts, the authors are expected to explain why this is the case in a specific section. Artifact submission is not required at the paper submission time. All papers accepted to the program will be shepherded to ensure that the artifacts promised have
been made available.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">IMC takes a broad view of contributions that are considered in scope for improving the practice of network measurement, including, but not limited to:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">collection and analysis of data that yield new insights about network structure and network performance (e.g., traffic, topology, routing, energy utilization, performance)</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">collection and analysis of data that yield new insights about application and end-user behavior (e.g., economics, privacy, security, application interaction with protocols)</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">measurement-based modeling (e.g., workloads, scaling behavior, assessment of performance bottlenecks, causality)</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">methods and tools to monitor and visualize network-based phenomena</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">systems and algorithms that build on measurement-based findings</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">theoretical analysis and modeling of networked-systems and measurement techniques</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">novel methods for data collection, analysis, and storage (e.g., anonymization, querying, sharing)</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">reappraisal of previous empirical network measurements and measurement-based conclusions</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">descriptions of challenges and future directions the measurement community should pursue</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Networks of interest include:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Internet transit networks</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">edge networks, including home networks, broadband access networks (e.g., cable, fiber), and cellular networks</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">data center networks and cloud computing infrastructure</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">peer-to-peer, overlay, and content distribution networks</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">software-defined networks</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">online social networks</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">online services, platforms, and content providers</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">experimental networks, prototype networks, and future internetworks</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Replicability Track:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">IMC 2024 will continue the Replicability Track for submissions that aim to reproduce or replicate results that have been previously published at IMC. Papers accepted to this track will
be published in ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR). Priority will be given to replicability studies, although reproducibility studies are also in scope. For the definitions, please see <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/artifact-review-and-badging-current"><span style="color:black">ACM’s
site</span></a></span></strong>. The authors of outstanding replicability papers may receive an invitation to present at the main conference. In that case, the paper would also be included in IMC’s proceedings (rather than CCR).</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Submissions to this track are two-phase. Prospective authors are invited to submit an Expression of Interest (EoI) via the submission system in the form of an abstract which must explain:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Which paper the authors aim to replicate</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo3;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Whether the paper will be replicated or reproduced</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo3;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">What the IMC community stands to learn from the replication or reproduction</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo3;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Chosen approach, and why it will lead to new insights</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">A small committee will evaluate the EoIs and their potential to be of interest to the IMC community. The authors of strong abstracts will receive an invitation to a full submission.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The EoI serves to avoid misunderstandings and disappointment for authors as we acknowledge that replicating or reproducing a paper is a very significant effort to which potential authors
would commit much time.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Full submissions will then be assessed by the TPC. Full submissions must otherwise conform to the same criteria and rules as full submissions on the main track (see below).</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">See the <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2024/#important-dates"><span style="color:black">Important Dates section</span></a></span></strong> for
the EoI deadline. Full submissions have the same deadlines (abstract registration and full submission) as the IMC main deadline.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">Review process and criteria</span><span style="font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">IMC 2024 invites two forms of submissions:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Full papers</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> (up to 13 pages for text and figures + unlimited pages for references and appendix) that describe original
research, with succinctness appropriate to the topics and themes they discuss.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Short papers</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> (up to 6 pages for text and figures + unlimited pages for references and appendix) that convey work that
is less mature but shows exciting promise, OR offer results that do not merit a full submission. Short papers could articulate a high-level vision and describe challenging future directions that the authors believe the community should tackle; validate, verify,
or update important results; or present new ideas that challenge existing assumptions. Our plan is to assign a subset of the reviewers to the evaluation of short papers (only). These reviewers will be reminded of the specific expectations for short papers.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Any submission exceeding the short paper page-length limit will be evaluated as a full paper.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Authors should submit only original work that has not been published before and is not under submission to any other venue. We will consider full paper submissions that extend previously
published short, preliminary papers (including IMC short papers), in accordance with the <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.sigcomm.org/about/policies/frequently-asked-questions-faq/"><span style="color:black">SIGCOMM
policy</span></a></span></strong> and the <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy"><span style="color:black">ACM Plagiarism Policy</span></a></span></strong>. The <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/simultaneous-submissions"><span style="color:black">ACM
policy on simultaneous submissions</span></a></span></strong> does not consider technical reports (including arXiv) to be concurrent publication or submission.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The review process will have several reviewing rounds. To allow authors time to improve their work and submit to other venues, authors of submissions for which there is a consensus
on rejection will be notified early.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">IMC 2024 will bestow three awards on paper submissions, (1) a Best Paper award; (2) a Best Student Paper award; and (3) a Community Contribution award. All accepted papers are eligible
for the best paper award; the best student paper award is limited to papers whose main author is a student at the time of submission. The community contribution award will recognize a paper with an outstanding contribution to the community in the form of a
new dataset, source code distribution, open platform, or other noteworthy service to the community. To be eligible for the community award, the authors must make data or source code publicly available or have a software artifact that is accessible and usable
by the public at the time of the camera-ready deadline. The authors indicate their eligibility on the submission form and are also encouraged to include a link to the contribution in the submitted paper.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">A few accepted papers may be forwarded for fast-track submission to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">Detailed submission instructions</span><span style="font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">For all information about paper submission—including anonymity, ethics, use of generative AI, and paper formatting—please see the <a href="https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2024/submission-instructions/"><b><span style="color:black">Detailed
Submission Instructions page</span></b></a>.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Expression of Interest (papers for the Replicability Track) Feb 28th, 2024</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Notification for the Replicability Track Expression of Interest Mar 8th, 2024</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Paper registration (with abstract, including invited papers to Replicability Track) May 8th, 2024</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Paper submission (including invited papers to Replicability Track) May 15th, 2024</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Early reject notification June 28th, 2024</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Notification July 31st, 2024</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Camera-ready due Sep 11th, 2024</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Conference Nov 4th - 6th, 2024</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">Diversity and Inclusiveness</span><span style="font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">As part of our efforts at fostering diversity and inclusiveness, we provide the following guidelines to assist you when preparing your paper submission and/or your conference presentation.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Inclusivity Guidelines:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> Good technical writing often requires pedagogical examples
to explain complex ideas. These provide an opportunity to promote inclusiveness by challenging implicit biases and assumptions.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Avoid gender-specific pronouns if possible. Where required, consider interspersing a balance of male (“he”, “his”), female (“she”, “her”), and gender-neutral (“they”, “their”) ones.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo5;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Use gender-neutral names in examples. Instead of Alice and Bob, try Alex and Jun. Consider names that reflect a variety of cultural backgrounds: Esteban, Naveena, Sasha, Sergey, Tuan, Xin, and so on.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo5;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Refrain from assuming binary gender. For instance, the “gender” column in a table of data should have more than just “male” and “female” values.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo5;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Be mindful of people’s diverse backgrounds. Not everyone has two parents. Not every marriage involves “husband” and “wife”. Not everyone lives in a house, or has a car.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Accessibility Guidelines:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> Color and hearing perception varies from person to person
depending on age, color blindness, distance, visual acuity, etc. Make sure that the contents of your paper are accessible to all, by considering the following:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Use patterns, symbols, and textures to emphasize and contrast visual elements in graphs and figures, rather than using colors alone. Graphs should be readable either in monochrome or color versions.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Use a color palette that is designed for visually-impaired or color-blind people. Avoid poor color combinations such as green/red or blue/purple.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">Submission Site</span><span style="font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Please submit your paper at <a href="https://imc2024.hotcrp.com/"><b><span style="color:black">https://imc2024.hotcrp.com</span></b></a>.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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