Submission Guidelines

To help make the submission guidelines and process clearer for authors we have prepared this handy overview of information.

Submission Overview

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fdg27

Submission Details:

All submissions are to be prepared in English, using the ACM Master template (link to template section below) and submitted in PDF format. Click on the submission type below for specific details about length, deadlines, anonymisation and peer review process.

Submission template:

All submissions must use the ACM Primary Article Template:

• LaTeX using [manuscript, screen, review]: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
• Word: https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-article-with-microsoft-word

All submissions must be in PDF format for submission.

Desk Rejection Criteria:

The following are the desk rejection criteria laid out in the CfP, organised for easy reading.

• Incomplete submissions:
• Full Paper and Abstract-only submissions with incomplete metadata by metadata deadline
• Full Paper and Abstract-only submissions with changed author metadata on full submission
• Workshop/Panels which do not address the minimum information (see CfP)
• Games/Demos submissions with no video of the demo
• Non-anonymised submissions, if required for submission type (see above):
• This includes supplementary material and the video component for Games/Demos
• Excessive submission length:
• Abstract-only submissions over 2 pages, excluding references
• Full paper submissions over 24-pages, single column and excluding references
• Workshop/Panel submissions over 4 pages, excluding references
• Late-Breaking Work submissions over 6 pages, excluding references
• Doctoral Consortium submissions over 4 pages, including references
• Submission is in the wrong format
• Submission is out of scope for the conference

Along with the above criteria, any submissions that violate ACM Publication policies are also subject to desk rejection. Examples of violations include:

• Inappropriate authorships (see ACM Policy on Authorship)
• Using Generative AI in a way that violates ACM Authorship and Generative AI Policies (see https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/frequently-asked-questions)
• Failure to declare concurrent closely related submissions, or submission of the same work to multiple venues (see ACM Policy on Plagiarism, Misrepresentation, and Falsification and ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions)
• Works involving human participants that does not meet appropriate ethical and legal standards (see ACM Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects)

ACM Open Access Publishing Model

FDG2027 is continuing to pursue ICPS publication in the ACM Digital Library – as such the following information about ACM Open Access Publishing applies for the 2027 conference.

As of January 1, 2026, all papers published in the ACM Digital Library (DL) are published OA, and authors are responsible for production fees.

Papers that fall into the following categories will be published in the DL at no charge:

• If the corresponding author is affiliated with an institution participating in ACM’s transformative ACM Open model.
  • A list of the 3,000+ institutions currently participating in ACM Open is available here.
  • Note that, by the end of 2026, we expect roughly 80% of papers published in the DL to be covered by ACM Open agreements.
• If the country in which your institution is located is on this list of countries covered by ACM’s agreements with EIFL and Research4Life and/or classified by the World Bank as low-income countries.

For papers that do not fall into the above categories, the following scale of article processing charges (APCs) will apply:

• If the corresponding author is affiliated with an institution in a lower-middle-income country (as defined by the World Bank) and at least one of the paper’s authors is an ACM member, the applicable APC is $350 per paper.
• If the corresponding author is affiliated with an institution in a lower-middle-income country (as defined by the World Bank) but none of the paper’s authors is an ACM member, the applicable APC is $500 per paper.
• If the corresponding author is not affiliated with an institution in a lower-middle-income country but at least one of the paper’s authors is an ACM member, the applicable APC is $700 per paper.
• In all other cases, the applicable APC is $1000 per paper.

Note also that authors without access to APC funding may be eligible for a needs-based waiver. To request a needs-based waiver, please write to apcwaivers@acm.org .

Note: Unfortunately, this year we are unable to reimburse the cost of APCs for authors through FDG. For authors who are unable to cover their APCs, we would like to direct them to the financial hardship waiver program, which might cover the APC cost for authors in need. Please review the APC Waivers and Discounts Policy to see if your are eligible, and keep in mind that waivers are rare and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM.