Dear all,
FYI, it seems that Springer LNCS is becoming more strict about the proceedings they will accept to publish.
In the recent past, any conference whose scope was a central topic of computer science was accepted, which means that very low level events were sitting side by side with very high level events.
This seems to be changing. For example, TESTCOM 2005 was finally published in IFIP-LNCS, but only after some discussion where the acceptance ratio was a key criterion.
Anyway, we have the TC6 bylaw that all our events (except workshops) are supposed to have acceptance rates below 50%. If this is the case, we will probably be accepted in IFIP-LNCS. Therefore, we should continue to enforce this policy, independently of the fact that we still target LNCS publication or not (according to the "new" TC6 publication policy).
Best regards, Guy