We published the CEUR-WS-Tools for Workshop Organizers at
https://ceur-ws.org/ceurtools/
Workshop organizers can use them to check a the correctness of their submission before sending it to CEUR-WS. This saves a lot unnecessary iterations to correct errors.
Workshop organizers can now include the ORCIDs of authors and editors in the index.html directory file of their proceedings. For example:
<span class=”CEURAUTHOR” itemscope itemtype=”https://orcid.org/” itemid=”https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000“>Ken Bar</span>
The ORCID shall uniquely identify the author(s) of a paper. Workshop organizers may also choose not to provide an ORCID. Downstream indexing services benefit from the higher meta data quality if ORCIDs are used.
I like to share some personal thoughts about open-access publishing from the viewpoint of CEUR-WS.org as a diamond open-access publisher that does not collect article processing charges (APC).
My argument is: APCs are slowly eroding the quality of research by a misdirected incentive system. Commercial publishers are incentivized to solicit as many papers as possible to their journals. The rough formula is
t = n * c
where t is the turnover, n is the number of published papers and c is the APC. Since almost all of the work is done by academic for free (paper writing, reviewing, editing), the turnover is mostly profit for the commercial publishers if the papers are published online only or online mostly.
Before APCs were collected, authors did not have to pay anything for an accepted paper. Instead, the publishers had to sell the journal titles to institutional subscribers, mostly university libraries. Those subscribers would not subscribe to low quality journals. Commercial publishers used to sell printed copies of the journals. Hyper journals were not profitable due to the paper cost. The number of accepted papers per issue was strictly limited.
In this demand-driven system, editorial boards were primarily concerned with quality and the preservation of the journal’s reputation. There was at least a chance that low quality journals would disappear over time. In some research areas, this created long backlogs of submitted papers waiting for being reviewed. A turnaround time of 2 years from submission to publication was the norm, not the exception for high-quality journals.
The APCs introduced a supply-driven system. Some commercial publishers have created a number of high-volume journals with special issues edited by guest editors. They advertise the quick review times. Authors are promised that the paper is published within a couple of weeks if accepted. The demand for reviewers increased. So, more and more specialized journals (and conferences/workshops) popped up with the guest editors chasing for reviewers. One may argue, that high APCs would regulate the number of accepted papers. But that is not true. Rich countries tend to enter into agreements with large publishers to waive the APC for author from their countries in exchange for an annual payment of the country’s authorities to the publishers. Hence, those authors are not constrained by cost. Authors from countries which did not enter into such an agreement have to pay the APC individually or convince their employer to cover it. This is potentially unfair to the latter authors. They find their papers either behind a paywall (leading to less citations over time) or they do not target journals with an APC at all.
What is the role of CEUR-WS in this economic context? We do not have a monetary incentive to publish many proceedings. We have the opportunity to go towards a different path: More quality. Less quantity.
CEUR-WS currently publishes 250+ volumes per year. The quality is diverse. I do understand that workshops are primarily promoting the scientific discourse of at an early stage (“the cutting edge of research”). Research results may not yet be fully developed but mature enough to be presented to the group of peers. In computer science, this is of high value due to rapid changes in technology.
Still, we have a problem with supply-driving incentives such as the chance that papers will being indexed by Scopus/DBLP. There are workshops submitted to CEUR-WS which advertise the Scopus/DBLP indexing on their Calls for Papers. The incentive should better be the platform for discussion during the workshops.
I think, we may have to go in the following direction
(1) Reject workshops that have a broad set of topics. The workshop organizers and their program committees should be among the best in the topics mentioned in the call for papers.
(2) Be critical to poster proceedings. Poster presentations have too little time for discussing novel ideas during a conference/workshop.
(3) Focus on international workshops and demand international program committees.
What do you think? Am I too extreme? Shall CEUR-WS emphasize different goals?
Kind greetings, Manfred Jeusfeld (2025-09-24), extended from an earlier post in another forum.
CEUR-WS (CEUR-WS.org), founded in 1995 by Manfred Jeusfeld, is a free, open-access publication service for computer science workshop proceedings. Since its inception, it has operated under the umbrella of Informatik V at RWTH Aachen (rwth-aachen.de). This collaboration has been highly successful, resulting in over 4,000 workshop proceedings published to date. The Aachen server has maintained exceptional reliability, with only a few days of downtime in 30 years.
In early 2025, we recognized the need for a more permanent host to sustain CEUR-WS for decades to come. Managing a substantial service like CEUR-WS.org is a significant responsibility for a computer science institute. We have been fortunate that Informatik V, led by Prof. Dr. Stefan Decker, and RWTH Aachen have generously provided server infrastructure and network bandwidth without financial compensation. CEUR-WS remains entirely volunteer-run and free for authors and workshop organizers.
After exploring various options, we are delighted to announce that CEUR-WS has found a new sponsor with the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI eV, gi.de), the largest computer science society in German-speaking countries. GI eV has a strong track record in academic publishing, producing journals for its chapters and broader audiences. CEUR-WS complements these efforts by offering a free, open-access publication service tailored to computer science workshops. Many GI eV members are already familiar with CEUR-WS as workshop organizers or authors.
Over the next few months, we will manage a seamless transition. The editorial team will remain unchanged and fully independent, ensuring continuity in the service’s technical operations. Users should notice no difference in functionality. Looking ahead, we are excited to leverage GI eV’s expertise to enhance the value we provide to workshop organizers, authors, and readers.
We extend our heartfelt thanks to Prof. Stefan Decker and Reinhard Linde of Informatik V for their longstanding and exceptional support. CEUR-WS will maintain its connection with Informatik V moving forward.
We warmly welcome GI eV as our new partner and look forward to collaborating to lead CEUR-WS into a bright future!
Manfred Jeusfeld, 17-Sep-2025
Some time ago, I gave an overview of proceedings at CEUR-WS.org about the area of law and computer science, e.g. Legal AI. I like to continue this with an incomplete summary of proceedings about computer vision (image analysis, image processing, ….).
The first block of proceedings are from the series “Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin” (Image Processing for Medicine). It is a German-language series but still an enormously rich resource:
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-6 Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 1996: Algorithmen, Systeme, Anwendungen.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-12 Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 1998: Algorithmen – Systeme – Anwendungen.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-20 Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 1999: Algorithmen – Systeme – Anwendungen.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-27 Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2000: Algorithmen – Systeme – Anwendungen.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-36 Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2001: Algorithmen – Systeme – Anwendungen.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-56 Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2002: Algorithmen – Systeme – Anwendungen.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-80 Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2003: Algorithmen – Systeme – Anwendungen.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-116 Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2004: Algorithmen – Systeme – Anwendungen.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-246 Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2005: Algorithmen – Systeme – Anwendungen.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-264 Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2006: Algorithmen – Systeme – Anwendungen.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-283 Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2007: Algorithmen – Systeme – Anwendungen.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-347 Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2008: Algorithmen – Systeme – Anwendungen.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-446 Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2009: Algorithmen – Systeme – Anwendungen.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-574 Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2010: Algorithmen – Systeme – Anwendungen.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-715 Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2011: Algorithmen – Systeme – Anwendungen.
After 2011, the series continued solely on Springer.
Other related workshop proceedings are:
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-719 Automatic Image Annotation and Retrieval Workshop 2010.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-1711 Quality Assurance in Computer Vision & Digital Eco-Systems 2016.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-1901 Image Processing, Geoinformation Technology and Information Security. Information Technology and Nanotechnology 2017.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-1940 Optoelectronic Equipment and Devices in Systems of Pattern Recognition, Image and Symbol Information Processing 2017.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-2210 Image Processing and Earth Remote Sensing. Information Technology and Nanotechnology 2018.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-2347 TriCoLore 2018: Creativity – Cognition – Computation.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-2349 Segmentation of THoracic Organs at Risk in CT Images.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-2391 Image Processing and Earth Remote Sensing. Information Technology and Nanotechnology 2019.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-2566 Masters Symposium on Advances in Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision 2019.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-2595 Computer Vision in Endoscopy 2020.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-2665 Information Technology and Nanotechnology. Image Processing and Earth Remote Sensing 2020.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-2886 Workshop on Computer Vision in Endoscopy 2021.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-3140 The Sixth Image Schema Day 2022.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-3338 Joint Proceedings of CVMLH 2022 and WTEK 2022.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-3148 Computer Vision in Endoscopy 2022.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-3511 The Seventh Image Schema Day 2023.http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-3635
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-3635 Joint Proceedings of WINS 2023 and CVMLH 2023.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-3888 The Eighth Image Schema Day.
This small compilation shows that computer vision is quite well covered by CEUR-WS volumes.
Kind greetings, Manfred
The function of copy&paste was a great addition to the user experience with computers when introduced in the 1980-ties. Have a spreadsheet diagram? Copy&paste it into the report with a simple mouse click or a keystroke.
For CEUR-WS, this became a curse. Rather than reading our (very long) formatting instructions, they copy&paste-ed an older editor of their workshop proceedings and mage changes there. When listing all papers, a series of copy&paste allows to duplicate the first entry and then adapt the copied entries, e.g. for the list of papers.
Why is this a curse? Well, this habit leads to easy mistakes such as forgetting to update the filename of a duplicated entry in the HTML index file. There are plenty of such mistakes.
CEUR-WS has recently started to use scripts to detect such errors, specifically
We ran the script against all 4000 currently published volumes and up to 5% of the volumes had issues. Some minor, others more serious. So, if you are a workshop organizer, be careful with copy&paste. Follow our instructions. In fact we have now an easy to follow “happy path” at
https://ceur-ws.org/happypath.html
Happy publishing! Manfred
We are proud to announce the Happy Path for publishing computer-science workshop proceedings with our free and open access publication service:
https://ceur-ws.org/happypath.html
The document provides a step-by-step guide for submitting a proceedings volume to us. It is based on the more comprehensive guide
Hope that this is indeed the happy path for you!
Kind greetings,
Fabrizio Fornari, Manfred Jeusfeld
Effective January 1, 2025, CEUR-WS adopts new rules on using Generative AI in papers. Details are available at https://ceur-ws.org/GenAI/Policy.html.
Authors shall include a declaration on the use of Generative AI at the end of their paper. The declaration employes a taxonomy of GenAI Usage, available at https://ceur-ws.org/GenAI/Taxonomy.html
We shall monitor developments with Gen AI technology and may adapt the taxonomy and the types of acceptable use in the future.
The CEURART templates have been amended to include the Gen AI declaration. We kindly ask author to use the new CEURART template for future papers intended to be published with CEUR-WS.org.
#CEUR (ceur-ws.org) publishes computer science workshop proceedings. Some volumes are titled “Poster proceedings” or contain papers that were presented as posters during a conference. The institution of such poster sessions is totally fine. But I wonder whether #CEURWS should continue to publish such papers. Are they thoroughly peer-reviewed? Should their papers be listed like normal workshop papers?
Opinions welcome!
Kind greetings, Manfred
CEUR-WS was founded in 1995 as an online publication channel for computer science workshop proceedings. CEUR-WS is free of cost for authors, editors and readers. The service is provided with the generous support by Informatik 5 (RWTH Aachen) and the voluntary contribution of academics in the CEUR-WS Editorial Team.
CEUR-WS is a grassroots project. We never got funding from public or private organizations. It is quite amazing that is still thrives very strongly after almost 30 years. Still, I believe that CEUR-WS needs a solid support structure in the mid future, i.e. within the next 5 years.
Such a support structure could be the embedding of CEUR-WS in a publicly funded non-profit organization such as
What happens if we do not find such a support structure for the hosting and the administrative overhead? Well, it could be that CEUR-WS then gracefully terminates its service, passing published volumes to the long-term archive of TIB Hannover. Nothing is forever.
But does that need to happen? No! If you have an interest in having CEUR-WS around also in 2030, 2040 and beyond, then discuss here with us what we can do. Maybe you can contribute to keep CEUR-WS alive and kicking …
Free open-access (“diamond open-access”) is the only fair open-access model. It makes research available to everybody and it does not discriminate against authors from countries that cannot shoulder the exorbitant article processing charges (APC) of commercial publishers.
Like always: Just my two cents. Feel free to comment!
Manfred
Quo vadis CEUR-WS.org? 