Paper Submission

Length, File and Format Information

Camera-ready papers should be no longer than 14 pages. Authors are requested to submit papers in electronic PDF or Postscript format. Instructions for electronic submissions encompass the guidelines called Authors Instructions of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. They are mandatory to follow for a final and camera-ready submission to DSOM'99.

Copyright Information

A copyright form must be completed for camera-ready submission of DSOM'99 papers. It is available from Springer-Verlag at the URL http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/copyrigh.html in PostScript or PDF format for the publication guidelines in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. For an editable format retrieve the copyright form for DSOM'99 in a Word format here.

Submission of Papers for Review

This section has been closed, since the deadline for submissions has been reached.

Submission of Papers in Camera-ready Format

Papers that have been reviewed and accepted ones for publication are required to be delivered according to the Springer-Verlag guidelines for the series of "Lecture Notes in Computer Science". Authors Instructions of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science are available here. Theses guidelines are mandatory for the camera-ready version.

Submissions of camera-ready papers must be accompanied with the complete registration and payment made in full based on the published rates. Otherwise the inclusion of the paper in the proceedings can not be guaranteed.

Steps and Deadlines

Send final paper in electronic form via e-mail to dsom99@tik.ee.ethz.ch . (hard deadline: August 2, 1999)
Send a hardcopy of the paper and the signed copyright form from Springer to
DSOM'99
ETH Zürich, TIK
Gloriastrasse 35
CH - 8092 Zürich
Switzerland
(*** Hard deadline: August 2, 1999 ***)
Register one of the co-authors for DSOM'99 by August 6, 1999.

Preliminarily, the following list of files has to be provided completely for the electronic submission of the camera-ready version of an accepted paper. This list is based on the preferred selection of a word processing tool. Encouraged are LaTeX and FrameMaker, since the positioning of figures within the document and the document formats are more easily maintained. Source files are required to follow a rigid approach in achieving a unified layout of the final proceedings, e.g., including identical pages numbers. In addition, the printable formats are required to fill-in the on-line library of Springer.

In the case of use of LaTeX styles as described in the Authors Instructions deliver the following files:
- Final file in PostScript or PDF format: "<name>.ps" or "<name>.pdf"
- Final file in dvi Format: "<name>.dvi"
- Directory of files called "<name>" containing all figures in separate Embedded PostScript files: "<name-n>.eps"
In the case of FrameMaker usage. Follow the styles defined for FrameMaker documents as described in Authors Instructions. A style can be obtained here MIF format:
- Final file in PostScript or PDF format: "<name>.ps" or "<name>.pdf"
- Final file in Rich Text Format: "<name>.rtf"
In the case of Word styles as described in the Authors Instructions:
- Final file in PostScript or PDF format: "<name>.ps" or "<name>.pdf"
- Final file in Rich Text Format: "<name>.rtf"

Should you have questions with respect to the preparing the camera-ready paper, the submission of the final paper, author registration, etc., please contact Marcus Brunner.

Modified June 30, 1999 by Marcus Brunner.