Paper Submission and formatting instructions

Authors are invited to submit full or demonstrators for presentation at the conference, describing original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal.

Full papers (no more than 8 camera-ready pages, 10 pt font in IEEE format) should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the conference.

Demonstrators are an opportunity to present preliminary or interim results and are limited to 2 camera-ready pages in length.

Papers in excess of page limits shall not be considered for review or publication.

Paper formatting and submission instructions

Papers must be submitted electronically to EDAS in PDF format, A4 (not US-Letter size), with all fonts embedded. (The PDF-A standard complies with that.)

All papers must include title, complete contact information for all authors, abstract (max 250 words), and keywords on the cover page.

Please format your submission using the guidelines provided in IEEE_conf_layout.pdf. The guidelines are implemented in the following templates.

You are strongly encouraged to produce your paper with LaTex, since that will lead to consistent typographic quality, and is widely used in scientific publications.

If you are not a LaTex user yet, please use this submission to start:

Template for LaTex users including Bibtex-Style: IEEEtran.zip
LaTex authors please verify you are using the following documentclass: \documentclass[10pt,a4paper,conference]{IEEEtran}

Only in case you are unable to use LaTex, other text processors may be used at your own risk. IEEE provides a template for Word in A4 size. You have to submit a paper that follows the IEEE conference formatting requirements (e.g., font sizes, margins, and layout). Thus, check them really carefully. Compare them agains the reference PDF in the Latex template.

Further important requirements:

Title is set in 24 pt non-bold.
Any running headers/footers or page-numbers must be removed.
Columns should be balanced, i.e. have same length on each page.
Blue-underlining for URLs and email addresses should be removed.

Authors are required to submit their papers through the EDAS web site in three steps:

Creation of a personal account in EDAS (if you are new to EDAS)
Registration of the paper following http://edas.info/N11801 (requiring title and a draft abstract of up to 250 words)
Upload of the paper, in PDF format only, updating the abstract, keywords and topics

EDAS will automatically check some formatting requirement, such as embedded fonts, letter size and margins. Authors can always update their manuscripts before the deadline, overwriting the previous one. For help with EDAS please contact the EDAS Administrator via the "Request Help" link at the bottom of each page.

Authors should also be aware of the following conditions:

It is a requirement that all authors listed in the submitted paper are also listed in EDAS. Note that the author section of EDAS will be "locked" at the conference submission deadline. After the deadline, the list of authors can only be modified by sending a request to the Program Chairs, who will decide on a case-by-case basis based on the reasons provided. This policy is to ensure that conflict-of-interest can be properly enforced during review. It also avoids situations where an author submits a paper without informing his/her co-authors. If a paper's author list in the submitted version does not match that in EDAS, the paper may not be reviewed.
The authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must be registered at full rate for that paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled for presentation.

Important DateS

Paper registration/submission deadline: March 18, 2012
Acceptance notification: April 27, 2012
Camera-ready version: May 11, 2012
Registration deadline: May 25, 2012
Conference dates: June 25-27, 2012