Instructions for Authors

The submission deadline for the final camera-ready papers is 14 June 2006. ONLY ON-LINE SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED.

Acceptance of your paper is made with the understanding that at least one author will attend the conference to present the paper. If a paper is not presented during a session, it causes severe disruption to the session. To avoid such interruptions, I would greatly appreciate it if you would write an email to roman06@herts.ac.uk and withdraw your paper as soon as possible in the event that you or a co-author cannot attend the conference to present the paper.

Preparation of Final Camera-Ready Paper:

Final papers should be up to 6 pages long. Note, accepted papers for the proceedings can be up to 8 pages long, with extra page charges (for each page beyond 6 pages), see below, maximum 8 pages. The paper size for the final submission should be A4. All necessary forms needed for submission of your final manuscript will be created by the electronic submission website at the time of final submission. Authors need to sign and submit the IEEE copyright release form and will only be able to upload papers once they have completed the copyright transfer process. Electronic submission of the final camera-ready version of the manuscript is due by ***14 June 2006***.

Authors must carefully consider the reviewers' comments and take them into account when preparing the final paper.

If you have any questions concerning the submission of your final paper, please check the conference submission website. If your question is still not answered then contact roman06@herts.ac.uk

Templates and Submission Procedure:

Authors should use the templates provided by the electronic submission system (where addresses are listed on the bottom, left-hand corner of the first page). The templates for A4 paper should be used.

The manuscript submission website will require that you submit your abstract and make any final changes to the author list and title of the paper before uploading the paper.

All authors and co-authors must be registered in the electronic system. It is the corresponding author’s responsibility to ensure that the complete author list and the correct title are being entered. This information will be used for the conference programme and the proceedings.

The submission procedure is the same as for the original submissions, apart from the fact that authors have already created an account, so steps one (and possibly 2) below can be omitted.

Authors should adhere to the following steps for submitting the paper:

1. Create an account: go to https://ies.papercept.net/ => Start => PIN and fill out the form
2. Ask all your co-authors to do the same if they do not have an account on the system yet, write down the authors' PINs (this information is needed for manuscript processing purposes)
3. Download a template: go to https://ies.papercept.net/ => Start => Support => LaTeX Support or MS-Word Support
4. Use these templates/style files to create the paper, and save in pdf format
5. Test pdf for compliance: go to https://ies.papercept.net/ => Start => "test your pdf file"
6. Upload paper: go to https://ies.papercept.net/ => Start => "Submit a paper or session proposal" => Submit
7. Fill in the form presented on the next page (make sure to enter all author PINs created in Step 2)

Paper length and size:

Submissions should generally not exceed 6 pages. However, accepted papers for the proceedings can be up to 8 pages long, with extra page charges of 70 GBP (approximately 125 USD) for each extra page exceeding the 6-page paper length - maximum 8 pages (140 GBP max). The maximum file size is 2 MB.

Reminder: Final camera ready copy submission due by 14 June 2006 needs to be in A4 page size format!