Author Guidelines
Camera-Ready Papers.
The ER2003 proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the
LNCS series. Springer-Verlag publishes a full-text electronic version
of LNCS in parallel with the printed version, thus the electronic source
of accepted papers is required (Springer-Verlag strongly prefers the
LaTeX 2e format, but Word format is acceptable). See the Springer site
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html)
for author instructions. Please follow the author instructions
carefully.
Be sure to respond to referee comments in revising
your camera-ready papers.
Research papers are limited to 14 pages. (Workshop papers are limited
to 12 pages, and will be published in a separate proceedings -- contact your
workshop chair for instructions.) Extra pages are available for $150/page,
but the number of extra pages available is limited. If you wish to reserve
1 or 2 extra pages, send an e-mail to the
volume editors.
Industry abstracts are limited to 2 pages and may be sent in electronic
form only (no hard copy required) if the paper is easy for the editors
to print. Word, WordPerfect, LaTeX should all be fine.
Please send your camera-ready papers to the program committee co-chairs
by June 14. You must send both a printed copy and an electronic copy of
your paper. Send the printed copy (on U.S. letter or A4 paper) to:
Dr. Il-Yeol Song
3141 Chestnut Street
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA 19104
USA
Phone: 215-895-2489
Fax: 215-895-2494
E-mail: song@drexel.edu
Please send the electronic copy as a compressed archive via e-mail to
Steve Liddle at er2003@byu.edu. You
may use any standard compression technique (zip, tar/gzip, tar/compress,
etc.), but please send only a single archive file. For authors using a
word processor, send the original file. For authors using LaTeX, send
all the files needed to compile your paper. Also include a PDF or
PostScript copy of the paper. Please name your archive according to your
paper number, e.g., er2003paper101.zip. In the subject line or your
e-mail write "ER2003 Camera Ready Paper 101".
In your e-mail, please
tell us what changes you have made in response to referee comments.
Springer requires a signed copyright form with each paper. Only
one author needs to sign the copyright form. Visit the
Springer Web site
to get the copyright form. For the first two fields, write the
following:
Conference/Book: ER2003 Conference Proceedings
Volume Editors: Song, Liddle, Ling, Scheuermann
You may either mail this to Dr. Song with your printed camera-ready
paper, or fax it to his attention at 215-895-2494.
Please send an e-mail to Dr. Song
by May 26 indicating which author will register for the conference
for each paper. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to
register for the ER2003 Conference by June 14. This can be accomplished
online using our secure Web server. Click here for
details.
For further clarifications or assistance,
send an e-mail to the volume editors.
Submitted papers must not exceed 5000 words.
We suggest that you use at
least an 11-point font and that your paper not exceed 20 pages. Papers
must be submitted to our Web site using either PostScript or PDF format.
Adobe sells Acrobat Exchange software
to create PDF files. Acrobat Exchange has a utility (PDF Distiller) that
converts PostScript files to PDF format. We have found this to be the
best way for us to create PDF files -- create in PostScript format, then
convert to PDF.
Instructions for Windows-Based Authors
If you are using a Windows-based word processor, you can create a PostScript
file as follows:
- Add a PostScript printer to Windows. But for the port, instead of
directing it to LPT1:, choose FILE: as the output port.
- Now print your paper to the new printer you added. Since the
port is FILE:, Windows will ask you for a file name to use.
- You can view the contents of your file using the
GSView
program, available here -- look for the link to gsv27550.exe.
We suggest that you use the Times New Roman TrueType font for the greatest
portability. Note that some ER2003 reviewers use Unix and Macintosh
systems, so you cannot assume that they will have access to the same fonts
that are installed on your Windows machine.
Instructions for LaTeX Authors
If you are producing your paper with LaTeX, we presume you already
know how to generate PostScript files. However, less well known is how
to generate PostScript files with Computer Modern (CM) fonts embedded
(here is a PDF file without fonts embedded, and
here is a PDF file with fonts embedded).
Since not all systems have the CM fonts installed, your document will be
more portable if it embeds the CM fonts in your document. In particular,
PDF files generated from LaTeX often look extremely rough because the CM
fonts are not embedded. If you are using dvips to create PostScript files,
you can configure your system to embed Type 1 PostScript fonts for the CM
family. Click
here for instructions on how to embed fonts. The main idea is that
you need to modify your psfonts.map file to embed the fonts. Here are
some sample lines from our psfonts.map:
cmbxsl10 CMBXSL10 <cmbxsl10.pfb
cmbxti10 CMBXTI10 <cmbxti10.pfb
...
When running LaTeX under Microsoft Windows we have found that we need to
include a full path in the psfonts.map:
cmbxsl10 CMBXSL10 < D:\Tex\texmf\fonts\type1\bluesky\cm\cmbxsl10.pfb
cmbxti10 CMBXTI10 < D:\Tex\texmf\fonts\type1\bluesky\cm\cmbxti10.pfb
...
