INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS -- updated April 3 Dear Authors, We recently sent you the preliminary program for ISCC'98, as well as the basic guidelines for the preparation of your papers. Here are additional guidelines for the preparation of the final version of your manuscript. First of all, the deadline for the submission of your final manuscript has been extended to April 10, 1998. We request that all manuscripts be submitted in postscript form to the IEEE Computer Society. The IEEE Computer Society will also accept high-quality paper copy, but this will result in significant extra expense to ISCC'98. Instructions for the submission of your manuscript are included in the Author Kit, which is attached below. One registration fee must be received for each paper by the April 10 deadline, unless ALL authors have already registered in conjunction with another paper. For example, suppose Author A's name is on two papers and Author B's name is on at least one of them. Then two advance registration fees will be required for these two papers, even if Author A presents both papers and Author B does not attend. Registration forms and fees must be received by the April 10 deadline. Please send them to: Prof. Adel S. Elmaghraby EMACS Department University of Louisville Louisville, KY 40292, USA adel@homer.louisville.edu The registration forms and hotel information will soon be available at our website: http://www.cs.bu.edu/ftp/amass/ISCC/ The registration fees will be: IEEE Member $400 non-Member $450 Student $200 Here is one additional guideline for the preparation of your papers. Please include the authors' email address along with authors' name, affiliation and address on the first page of every paper. As we indicated earlier, papers of up to 5 pages will be published at no additional charge. You will have the opportunity to purchase up to 2 additional pages; thus the maximum permitted length is 7 pages. The charge for extra pages is $100 each, to be paid along with the registration fee by the April 10 deadline. A 20-minute time slot has been allocated for each presentation. To allow sufficient time for author introductions and questions, please plan to limit your presentations to 15 minutes. Standard overhead projectors will be available. If you require any alternative audiovisual equipment, please let us know immediately. However, at this point we cannot guarantee that any other equipment will be available. Please consult the following websites for further information on the preparation of your papers for ISCC'98: http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm The above site provides access to the following documents in both Word and Postscript formats: Instructions IEEE Copyright Form Format (provides a layout showing correct margins, etc.) http://www.computer.org/author/psguide.htm This site provides guidelines for generating and submitting postscript files. LaTex Macros and instructions are available at: http://www.cs.bu.edu/ftp/amass/ISCC/1998/latex_macros.txt The preliminary technical program for ISCC'98 is now available at our website: http://www.cs.bu.edu/ftp/amass/ISCC/ We look forward to receiving the final version of your paper and to seeing you in Athens! Sincerely, Hussein Mouftah (mouftah@eleceng.ee.queensu.ca) Jeff Wieselthier (wieselthier@itd.nrl.navy.mil) Technical Program Co-Chairs, ISCC'98 ======================================================= ISCC'98 AUTHOR KIT Dear Author, Attached and following is your author kit for the 3rd IEEE Symposium on Computers & Communications - ISCC '98. This is your author kit. No hard copy author kit will be sent. Please contact me if you have questions. Sincerely, Kristine Kelly - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dear Author: We have been notified that your paper has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Symposium on Computers & Communications - ISCC '98, scheduled for 30 June - 2 July 1998 in Athens, Greece. Enclosed is an author kit to help you in the preparation of your paper. Please note that your paper and a signed copyright form are due in our California office by 10 April 1998. Please put the conference name - ISCC '98 - on all correspondence, on the copyright form, and on the mailing envelope. This will assure that your correspondence is directed immediately to my desk. You are allowed a total of 5 pages for your paper. This includes all figures, tables, and references. Up to 2 extra pages may be purchased at a cost of $100.00 per extra page. Please make checks out to ISCC '98 and identify the conference and paper/author for each check. Please send extra pages charges to: Professor Adel S. Elmaghraby University of Louisville EMACS Department Louisville, KY 40292 Phone: 502/852-6304 adel@homer.louisville.edu ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION: Please submit your paper electronically to our ftp site. Please prepare your paper as plain ASCII PostScript only, with NO encoding, condensing, or encapsulation. Please use TrueType 1 fonts wherever possible. Do not use bitmapped fonts such as Computer Modern if you can avoid it. Guidelines for generating and submitting PostScript files are available on our Internet site at http://computer.org/author/psguide.htm FILE NAME Please save your file using your name, i.e. John Smith's file would be smith.ps. If you are submitting two or more files, please number them: smith1.ps, smith2.ps, etc. If there is a file with the same name already in the directory, please use a variation. Files are regularly moved off the FTP site, please do not re-post your paper if you do not see it on the site. TRANSFERRING TO FTP SITE When transferring files to the FTP site, if you have a choice between ASCII and binary modes, use binary. Although ASCII mode works well most of the time, binary mode incurs fewer problems. Our FTP site: ftp.computer.org Log on as: anonymous Place files in subdirectory: pub/incoming/cspress/iscc98 NOTIFICATION When you have put your file(s) in the FTP subdirectory, please send me an email (k.kelly@computer.org) with the following information: Your name, phone, fax, URL (your Web address, if you have one), your email address, the conference name, the title of your paper, and < you used. (Do NOT send me a copy of your postscript file via email.) COPYRIGHT FORM Please fax your signed copyright form to me at (714) 761-1784. We cannot publish your paper without this permission. (The copyright form is an attachment to this email.) If you prefer, you may mail your copyright form to the following address: ISCC'98 - Kristine Kelly IEEE Computer Society Press 10662 Los Vaqueros Circle Los Alamitos, California 90720 USA Telephone: (714) 821-8380 HARD COPY PAPER If, for some reason, you cannot place an electronic copy of your paper on our ftp site, you may submit it as camera-ready hard copy. However, this option is strongly discouraged because it will result in significant extra expense to ISCC '98. Please print your camera-ready manuscript on plain white paper (A4 is acceptable). Your manuscript must be camera-ready. If the print is gray or broken, it will appear that way in the completed book. Manuscripts will be photographed and printed just as they are. Mail your paper with your copyright form, and enclose a note that you could not place it on the ftp site (so I won't be searching for it on the ftp site). We recommend using a courier service to insure your paper arrives here on time. If sending a hard copy, your paper must be received in our California office by 10 April 1998. ABSTRACT Please send a electronic copy of your abstract, in ASCII format and including the paper title, keywords, author names, addresses, and affiliations, to <. If you do not have email, please save your abstract in ASCII format on a disk and send the disk with your hard-copy paper. WEB OR INTERNET COPIES Electronically-posted copies of your ISCC '98 papers appearing in proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society must display the following copyright notice on the initial screen displaying IEEE-copyrighted material: Copyright 1998 IEEE. Published in the Proceedings of ISCC'98, 30 June - 2 July in Athens, Greece. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works, must be obtained from the IEEE. Contact: Manager, Copyrights and Permissions / IEEE Service Center / 445 Hoes Lane / P.O. Box 1331 / Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331, USA. Telephone: + Intl. 732-562-3966. If you post an electronic version of your paper, you must provide the IEEE with the electronic address (URL, FTP address, etc.) of the posting. For your convenience, you may forward this information to our FTP site: /pub/incoming/cspress/Web-pprs and we will send it on to the Copyrights Department. There are several attachments to this author kit. They contain: AUTHOR GUIDELINES. Instructions on formatting your paper for the proceedings. LATEX MACROS. Optional macros for using LaTex (if you use LaTex as your word processor). REPRINT ORDER FORM. To use if you wish reprints of your paper. Please make checks for reprints out to the IEEE Computer Society. COPYRIGHT RELEASE FORM that MUST BE SIGNED AND RETURNED WITH YOUR PAPER. Note that you are stating that the material in your paper is original and you have not previously released copyright to it. We cannot publish your paper without this properly signed form. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. Sincerely, Kristine Kelly IEEE Computer Society Press 10662 Los Vaqueros Circle Los Alamitos, CA 90720-1264 Phone: (714) 821-8380 Fax: (714) 761-1784 Email: k.kelly@computer.org