Instructions to authors for Technical Session and Short Paper Session

The authors of papers accepted for Technical Session and Short Paper Session should proceed following procedures.

1. Author Registration (DEADLINE: August 8, 2008)

In order to be included in the APNOMS 2008 proceedings of technical session and short paper session which will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series proceedings, at least one author registration per paper must be registered by August 8, 2008 at the Full rate (including student paper). Please check the APNOMS 2008 web page (http://www.apnoms.org/2008/) for the detailed registration information.

IMPORTANT NOTE: One "Author Registration" is valid for ONLY ONE paper. If you authored more than one paper, your author registration is valid for ONE of them, and other author registration(s) are required for other paper(s). Student papers also have to register as FULL registration.

2. Camera Ready Paper Submission (DEADLINE: August 8, 2008)

The paper must be prepared carefully according to the Information for LNCS Authors (http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0). The page limit of your paper is ten (10) pages maximum and four(4) pages maximum for Technical Session and Short Paper Session respectively.

Special note

  1. Although the use of LaTeX is recommended by Springer, we recommend to use MS Word with the template sv-lncs.dot.
  2. DO NOT USE COLORS: If you use colored figures, you should make sure that they are also legible in black and white, since all figures will be printed in black and white.
  3. DO NOT USE SMALL FONTS: The characters in figures should be large enough to be legible well.
  4. Springer will send the final pdf files to the contact authors, asking them to check their papers. For this contact address, we let the Springer know of your correspondence authors' e-mail address that you registered to JEMS. If you want to change the contact address, please let TPC Co-chairs know the new address.
  5. The deadline is firm-fixed. If you fail to prepare any single deliverable with complete form within the deadline, your paper will not be published in the APNOMS 2008 proceedings.
  6. In the Copyright forms, please specify "APNOMS 2008" in "Title of the Book/Volume/Conference:" and "Yan Ma, Deok Jai Choi, Shingo Ata" in "VolumeEditor(s):."

Deliverables

Here are what we require from you.

  1. Source file (either in (a) MS-Word RTF file, or (b) LaTex files with all a ssociated style files and EPS files for all figures). All source files (though your manuscript is a single World document) should be archived and compressed by ZIP.
  2. Final PDF file of your manuscript for reference. NOTE: This paper is used for reference ONLY.
  3. Completed copyright form (one per paper, signed by one author on behalf of all the authors of that paper). Please download the Copyright Form from here, complete it (w/ signature), and scan it into PDF file. DO NOT use the electrical signature of PDF. You must print the form and sign by hand.
  4. Information for paper. Download the form (paperinfo.pdf) and fill all fields in the PDF. After saving the PDF, upload the saved PDF through JEMS.

Please upload above four files through JEMS by August 8, 2008.

As Volume Editors of LNCS, TPC Co-Chairs strongly advise you to send your deliverables as soon as possible, without waiting for the deadline, so as to check and correct your contribution if necessary.

Common Problems

Here are common problems that many author had made in the last year:

  1. Some authors did not use specified style file (If you use MS-word (or tex), please use sv-lncs.dot (or llncs.cls).
  2. Do not use square brackets such as [1], [2], [3] in reference section. Please specify only sequence number, such as 1,2,3 (no bracket is needed).
  3. Some authors' abstracts are too long. They should be at least 70 and at most 150 words.
  4. Some authors include page number and running head, which are not required. Do not include page number and running head.

Questions

If you have any questions about the Technical and Short Paper Session, please do not hesitate to ask to TPC co-chairs.

APNOMS 2008 TPC Co-Chairs