General Information

About the Symposium

Rationale

Major Sub-Themes and Topics

Symposium Organization

Symposium at a Glance

The PROGRAM
Symposium Sites

North America Site

Europe Site

South America Site
Call for Papers

Important Dates

Proposal Submission Form

Authors´ Guidelines

Interest Form 

Text Box: Authors whose submitted abstracts have been accepted are invited to submit a full-length paper. Presentation Category Maximum Length (including graphics & references) Keynote/Invited Speakers: Up to 10 pages Full Papers: Up to 8 pages Brief Papers Up to 5 pages Corporate Demos & Showcases: 250 words (to be also  published in the book of Abstracts) Invited sessions: Abstract only for the Session introduction; each paper presenting in Session should follow Full or Brief Paper length guide. Registration payment is required to insure the publication of the full papers. The full papers will be published on a CD and on the Website of the symposium and made available to all registered participants who paid full registration. A maximum of 20 papers will be selected and published in journal form as Selected Papers of the Symposium. The journal will be distributed to all registered participants. To be considered, papers MUST be prepared in English following the guidelines given below and be received by April 15 2006 (April 30 for the European site). All manuscripts should be submitted electronically, as an attachment to an e-mail or on a disk. Please use this checklist to ensure that guidelines are followed: Paper Size must be Letter size: 8 1/2 x 11 Margins must be 1" Font Face must be Times or Times New Roman Font Size must be 10 point (except paper Title is 14 pt) Paper page length must be followed References, graphics, tables all count toward total pages count Must INCLUDE an ABSTRACT of no more than 250-300 words and up to 5 keywords Do NOT include PAGE NUMBERS Do NOT include HEADERS or FOOTERS Text Area - 16 x 23 cm or 6 1/4 x 9 inches Begin the Text Area 1" or 2.5 cm from top of hard copy page. Use only a one-column layout. Set your margins so that they precisely match the text area specified. Place pictures, figures and tables centered between the margins without any text flowing around them. Do not start a new page for new sections (chapters) or subsections. Do not insert page numbers. Also notice that no form of running heads is allowed. STRUCTURE Title The title of a paper consists of the title itself, capitalized (all words except for short connectives should start with a capital letter), unnumbered and centered between the margins. Use a serif typeface (e.g. Times or Times New Roman), 14 point, bold font for the title. There should be no title page. The body of the paper should begin immediately after the title and author text. Leave 2 blank lines after title and then give the name and affiliation of each author including department, institution, country, and email address centered between margins. Multiple authors should be delimited by a single blank line. Use a serif typeface (e.g. Times), 10 point. Leave at least three blank lines after the last author. Please do not put any acknowledgements or thanks here, but place them in the optional Acknowledgement section at the end of the document. Abstract Abstracts should be 150-250 words in length. Indent 2 cm or 3/4" from left and right margins for abstract. Skip 2 lines before and after abstract. Start the abstract with the sequence "Abstract:" (without the quotes) in 9 point bold-face without a line break after "Abstract:". Literature References Start the literature references with the first level header "References" (see Headings below for a detailed description of the first level header format). Headings Use a typeface with serifs for all levels of headings. It is recommended to use Times or Times New Roman. Leave sufficient place for the title to stand out clearly. Leave 2 lines blank above and 1 line below the headings. If a heading is directly followed by a lower level heading the 2 blank lines before the lower level heading should be omitted. All headings should be capitalized (i.e. all words except for short connectives should have a capital initial). The title should be centered between the margins, all lower level headings should be left-justified. Font sizes, numbering and styles for the different types of headings: Title: centered, 14 point, bold 1st-level heading: left-justified, 12 point, bold 2nd-level heading: left-justified, 10 point, bold 3rd-level heading: left-justified, 10 point, bold, italic Running Text Use a typeface with serifs for running text. It is recommended to use Times or New Times Roman. Use 10-point type size and one line spacing for normal text and 9-point type size for small text (abstract, literature references and acknowledgements). Use italic print to emphasize words. Note: bold type and underlining should be avoided. The text should always be justified to occupy the full line width, so that the right margin is not ragged. All text should be single-spaced. Computer Programs For Computer programs both sans-serif and serif typefaces are allowed. Use 10-point type size and one line spacing. SPECIAL FORMATS Citations Insert the sequence "(Name year)" (without the quotes) into the running text for a citation to a literature reference. Name is the second name of the author and year is the year of printing. Also a citation to several authors is allowed. In this case the single authors must be delimited by the word "&". The phrase "et al." is also valid. References and citations should follow the recent version of APA style Acceptable File Formats are: Rich Text Format (.RTF); MS Word (.DOC): PDF (.PDF) Make sure that your File Name only contains the following characters:  A-Z, 0-9. 1. NO dashes, spaces, underlines, or special characters.  ONLY A-Z and 0-9 characters. 2. File extensions are required for a successful upload. The first page of the manuscript is the Title Page and should carry a title, the author (s) name (s). affiliation, address, fax numbers and e-mail addresses. subheadings listed above, the narrative should begin on the next line. TYPE STYLE, SIZE, SPACING AND NUMBERING. Use Times New Roman, 10 point, and DOUBLE SPACE throughout except for references. Double space between references. Leave a five space left margin at the beginning of each new paragraph. NUMBER PAGES at the bottom of each page except for Title Page. TABLES AND FIGURES. Number tables and figures sequentially using Arabic numbers (i.e., Table 1, Table 2, Figure 1, Figure 2). Following the number place the title with first letter of each word in caps. Center the number and title above the data. Place tables and figures in the narrative following their first mention in the text.     Contact us
 

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