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Double Blind Review

Abstract Classification

Abstract Guidelines

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Abstract Template

What is DBR (Double-Blind Review)?
In DBR, the authors' identity is hidden from the reviewers until the review process is completed. This is in contrast to a single-blind review process, where the reviewer identity is hidden from the authors, but the reviewers know the author identity.

Why DBR for MEMS 2015?
We have chosen for the DBR process format to focus the evaluation process on the quality of the submission by reducing human biases with respect to the authors' reputation and institution and thus to ensure that abstract evaluations are as fair as possible and of the highest possible quality.

To whom am I anonymous as author and when will my identity be revealed?:
When obtaining an abstract reference number, the authors fill out their name(s) and contact data via the registration website. This identity data is accessible to the conference organizers administrative staff but not to the reviewers in the technical program committees (ETPC and TPC members). Be aware that not all technical program committees' members will read every abstract.

The submitting author will receive an abstract reference number, which is the abstract identifier that must be added on the top right corner of your two-page abstract. This abstract reference number will be the only way to identify your abstract during the review process.

Your identity will be revealed to the ETPC members only after a decision has been made on whether the abstract has been selected for presentation at MEMS 2015.

How is this different from a single-blind review process?
The two-page abstract must be formatted as outlined in the template document that can be downloaded here.
The three important differences in the abstract writing are as follows:

1. The abstract must not contain the author names, affiliations or contact data, or any other text formulations that would reveal the identity of the authors.
2. Do not eliminate essential self-references or other references. However, limit self-references only to papers or proceedings that are relevant for reviewing the submitted paper. Always use the third person when referring to your prior work. For example, if you are Smith write: "We build on the prior work by Jones and Smith [JS 2003]."
3. Particular attention should be paid to references of relevant own work that has been submitted to another conference or a Journal but that is not yet publically available at the time of your current MEMS 2015 abstract submission. Reference such work as follows:
   • In the text, write "Concurrently submitted work [Anonymous 1 (or 2, 3, ...) shows ... ". The corresponding citation should be: "[Anonymous 1 (or 2, 3, ...)] Under submission to Conference XX 2014 / Journal YY. Details omitted for double-blind reviewing." In the reference list you must write: "Anonymous Reference No.1 (or 2, 3, ...)". (Again, you must NOT write the full reference to this work.)
   • On the abstract upload page, there is a specific input box, entitled "Anonymous references", in which you must write the full reference to this work in the example format: "Anonymous Reference No. 2: S. Ample et al., "Publication Title", accepted at MicroTAS 2014."
   • Upon request from the reviewers, the conference organizers' administrative staff will retrieve the yet unpublished documents from the anonymous list, blind them by hand, and make them available to the reviewers. Note that the conference organizers have agreements for such actions with most publishers and most of the other large conference series related to the MEMS field.