Reporting Violations of the ACM Publications Policies (confidential)

Contact Information*

Please provide your name and contact information. ACM Publications policy requires that all claimants must be named in order for ACM to launch a publications related investigation. ACM will keep the name and identity of claimants confidential to the greatest extent possible. Anonymous claims are not investigated by ACM.

What type of publications-related violation are you reporting?*
Please check all that apply

Conflict of Interest (click here for relevant ACM Policy)

Coercion & Abuse (click here for relevant ACM Policy)

Plagiarism, Misrepresentation, & Falsification (click here for relevant ACM Policy)

Journal or Conference Peer Review Process (click here for relevant ACM Policy)

Other:

Please Respond to the Following Questions ONLY for Plagiarism Violations

Please note that ACM only investigates claims of plagiarism where:

The plagiarized work (i.e., the work from which material was inappropriately copied) is published by ACM, and/or
The accused work (i.e., the work accused of inappropriately copying another work) is under review by or published by ACM

If the paper was not published by ACM, you will need to contact the publisher of the paper to report the violation to them.

Please identify the accused work, including author(s), title, DOI or citation for published work, or submission under review for an unpublished work.*

Please identify the plagiarized work(s), including author(s), title, DOI or citation for published work, or URL for pre-prints:*

What is your relationship to either the plagiarized or plagiarizing paper and/or authors of either paper?*
Choose one of the following:

I am one of the co-authors of either the plagiarized or plagiarizing paper

I am a conference committee member where the plagiarized or plagiarizing paper was submitted

Other:

File Uploads*

You must provide clean copies of each paper. You may also upload or email marked up scans (in PDF or MS Word Format) of the two papers or if you prefer identify specific sentences or paragraphs in each document.
You can either upload multiple files (hold down the Control Key and select the files) or upload the files in a zip folder.
The list of files you identify to upload will appear here.

Please identify as specifically as possible what material you feel has been inappropriately copied.*

Upload Relevant Evidence*

Provide relevant evidence for ACM to begin their invastigation.
You can either upload multiple files (hold down the Control Key and select the files) or upload the files in a zip folder.
The list of files you identify to upload will appear here.

Please identify as specifically as possible materials supporting your report.*

Reporting Violations of ACM Publications Policies (Confidential)

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