As a peer reviwed conference we need to pay particular attention to conflict of interest. The following section defines and recommends the practices we deem necessary in our official roles. And we follow an honor system where individuals declare any potential conflicts of interest and take necessary steps to protect the integrity of the conference.

Conflict of Interest

• Conflict of interest is minimally defined as some of the following: In practice, the definition can be broader and sound judgment is key.
  • Supervisor, sub-ordinate, within the past 3 years.
  • Ph.D. advisor or student, always.
  • co-author, co-investigator, business partner in the past 5 years.
  • current employer, or negotiations of employment.
  • bitter enemy or great friend.
• Peer review or papers should not have conflict of interest.
• GC and PC Chairs do not submit papers, whereas all other organizing committee members can.

Other practices, with ethical implications:

• Submissions to ISSRE cannot be submitted in parallel to any other conference or journal.
• PC members who have previlidged information on review, cannot discuss any such material outside the meeting.
• No show at the conference, barring unusual circumstance, warrants automatic rejection of future papers.