Author's Kit


This author's kit is to help you prepare your final camera-ready paper and other relevant materials for publication or conference.

Note 1: All authors who have papers accepted into ICIC2006 must strictly follow the deadline for submitting your camera-ready papers to us and making the registration before 15 May 2006. Otherwise, your paper(s) will be not included into the Springer Lecture Notes Series Proceedings, which is a Mandatory step without exception for any authors.

Note 2: In the Authors list for your paper(s), you should first write your given Names, and then write your Family names, which is an international convention.

1. Paper Format

All accepted papers should be in one column format and single-spaced. Text and illustrations should fill, but not extend an area of 122 mm x 193 mm. Please use 10-point Times-Roman font. The full paper must be TEN-TWELVE pages (maximum 12 pages) in length including figures and references while the short paper must be FIVE-SIX pages (maximum 6 pages) in length including figures and references. All the accepted papers should be written in English, using the Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) style, including all tables, figures, and references so that we can encode a unified format. Pages should be without page numbers.

2. Paper Submission

All camera-ready papers must be received by May 15, 2006, in order for the papers to be included in the Springer Lecture Notes Series Proceedings. Any papers submitted after this date run the risk of not being included in the Lecture Notes Proceedings. To include your paper in the Springer Lecture Notes Series Proceedings, here are the steps you must follow:

(1). Printable file of single-sided final camera-ready version of the paper, which should strictly follow the format requirements of the Springer Lecture Notes Series Proceedings.

(2). Source files upload.

For papers to be included in Springer Lecture Notes Series Proceedings, submit the following:
[1] Latex users: zip or rar file including LaTeX2e files for the text and PS or EPS files for figures;
[2] Microsoft Word users: Doc file.
[3] Final PDF file (if possible).

(3). Complete Copyright Form and upload it to our Online Submission System.
The information in the copyright form includes:
[1] Conference/Book title: Emerging Intelligent Computing Technology and Applications¨CICIC2006
[2] Volume Editor(s): De-Shuang Huang, et.al
[3] Title of the contribution.
[4] Name and address of corresponding author (please print).
[5] Author's Signature.

(4). A scanned copy of your bank transfer form (in PDF format) upload.

(5). Complete Registration Form and upload it to our Online Submission System.

It is highly recommended that authors use the Springer Lecture Notes Series Proceedings template (Download) or the Latex template (Download) to prepare the final papers, since the papers can be complied and indexed easily. However, for Microsoft Word users, you can find a Word template (Download). And other templates may also be available at the Springer website.

If you have any difficulties in uploading your file, please contact icic@ic-ic.org or icic2005@iim.ac.cn.

3. Preparation of Oral Presentation

All oral presentation sessions will be equipped with the following standard equipment:

(1). Please arrive at the place of your presentation 15 minutes prior to the beginning of your session and inform the session chairman of your arrival.
(2). Each presentation will be about 15 minutes with an extra 5 minutes for questions and discussions. Your session chairman might make a slight adjustment of time depending upon the number of papers in the session.

4. Preparation of Poster Presentation

For the posters, one-two easels with an area of 92cm (wide) x 235cm (high) will be provided. Poster presenters should be in the same format described above, or prepare 12-24 pages with A4-sized PowerPoint for exhibition.

5. Download Sites

(1). Copyright Form
(2). Latex2e template
(3). Latex template
(4). Word template
(5). Other templates
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