Paper Submission Instructions

NOTE: The Submission website, including a countdown clock, will be available soon. Formatting instructions and other requirements are below.

Please make sure that your paper satisfies all the below mentioned requirements before submission.

- The paper must have an abstract of a maximum of 250 words and must be submitted by August 3rd, 2009.

- You will not be allowed to submit a full paper without submitting an abstract first.

- The paper must be original material that has not been previously published in another conference or journal, nor is currently under review by another conference or journal. Note that you may submit material presented previously at a workshop without copyrighted proceedings.

- Your submission is limited to twenty two (22) 8.5”x11” double spaced single column pages, using 11pt or larger font. Please make sure you leave enough margin (roughly one inch) on both sides of the text so that it prints correctly on an A4 size paper as well. The 22 pages must include all content, including figures, references, and appendices if any.

- Paper submissions do not have to be anonymous. Author names and affiliations should be included in the submitted paper.

- Your paper must be formatted in such a way that it is clear to understand (including plots and diagrams) with a black and white print-out.

- Please number the pages.

- The paper must be submitted in PDF format. We cannot accept any other format, and we must be able to print the document just as we receive it. If this presents a hardship, please contact the Program Chair by email. We strongly suggest that you use only the four widely-used printer fonts: Times, Helvetica, Courier and Symbol.

We define a conflict of interest as:

• Your Ph.D. advisors, post-doctoral advisors, Ph.D. students, and post-doctoral advisees forever.
• Family relations by blood or marriage forever.
• People with whom you collaborated in the past five years. Collaborators include co-authors on an accepted/rejected/pending research paper, co-PIs on an accepted/rejected/pending grant, those who fund your research, and researchers whom you fund. “Service” collaborations, such as writing a CSTB report or serving on a program committee, are not a conflict-of-interest by themselves.
• People who were employed by, or a student at, your primary institution(s) in the past five years.
• Others with whom you believe a conflict of interest exists. Send email to the program chair if you have a question.