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This policy refers to generative AI tools, i.e generative models for the creation of new content in the form of text, images, audio, video, software code, or data sets. Currently known examples include text-generating chatbots such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, or LLaMA as well as image-generating AI tools such as DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, or Midjourney. In accordance with the COPE position stateme…

We use the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) to recognize individual author contributions and reduce authorship disputes. More details can be found under submissions.

Competing interest, also known as conflicts of interest (COIs), arise when issues outside research may fairly be viewed as impacting the work's neutrality or the objectivity of it’s assessment. This can happen at any point of the research cycle. Competing interest include Financial: funding and other payments, goods and services received or expected by the authors relating to the subject of the wo…

Standards on ethics in publishing safeguard that publications are high quality, credible, and that authors receive appropriate credit for their works. For authors, it is therefore crucial to avoid Data fabrication and falsification: Data fabrication means the scientist did not actually do the research, but made up the presented data. Data falsification means the manipulation of data (e.g. removing…

Authors publishing in TH Wildau ENSP grant TIB Open Publishing (Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB), Welfengarten 1B, 30167 Hannover, Germany) the right to publish and use the article/contribution including metadata and additional material under the conditions named below and identify itself as the original publisher. Authors publishing in TH Wildau ENSP retain the copyright of their article. …

TH Wildau ENSP are open-access proceedings. This means all content can be accessed immediately after publication free of charge. Authors retain copyright and all content can be reused unrestrictedly according to the Creative Commons Attribution Licence 4.0. Preprints (pre-review manuscripts), post prints (authors accepted manuscripts, AAM), and the version of record (VoR) can be deposited without …

Abstracts were reviewed by at least two peer reviewers; full papers did not undergo additional peer review. Model summary

All proceedings papers published in TH Wildau ENSP are peer reviewed. Since the individual volumes are edited by different conference organizers, the procedures, however, may differ. The processes actually applied are therefore described per volume. The volume editors have full accountability and power to approve or reject a paper submitted for publication. To assist in making this decision, the e…

Manuscripts are screened for plagiarism using Crossref's Similarity Check (iThenticate). Model summary

TH Wildau ENSP will use Crossref’s Similarity Check to detect plagiarism in the submitted manuscripts. It is up to the editors to decide whether any manuscript is rejected because of plagiarism.