Instructions to Authors


A post-conference book will be published by Springer-Verlag.

Any paper which violates the page limitation or format, or which is not presented at the conference, will not be included in the book.



  Click here  to go to the submission page for the post-conference publication.


Style Files

Papers should be formatted according to the style files for "contributed books" by Springer.

NOTE: We have found that there have been two Springer WEB pages for style and template files. The site we guided you before the first submission was the one for the older style and template files.

For the final paper submission, we ask all the authors to use the newest style and template files. The newest versions can be accessed at:

Template for Microsoft Word    Download T1-book.zip from Springer site  Download 
 (mirror site) 
Style file for LaTeX2e  Download svmult.zip from Springer site  Download 
 (mirror site) 

See a sample PDF for the newest version of LaTeX style file. Compare it with your manuscript and check whether you are using the correct version.

Please do not forget to write the abstract in the first page of the manuscript.

Page Limitation

The page limitation is changed from that of the first submission.


Further extra pages are not allowed.
  Papers accepted for oral sessions: Twelve (12) pages without extra charge.
  Papers accepted for poster sessions: Ten (10) pages without extra charge.