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Important
Note:
We thank everyone for
their submission to SMC 2007! We are finalizing the technical program and notifications
have been sent out to the primary authors of the manuscripts. If you
have not received your notification of acceptance / rejection – please
login to or ask your primary author
to login to the paper management system to view the status of your
paper.
Proceedings
All accepted papers (oral and poster)
will be published in the IEEE SMC 2007 Proceedings. Papers will be
included in IEEE Xplore® and indexed by EI
and INSPEC.
You must carefully follow PDF requirements listed below.
Important
Dates
July 03, 2007: Final
camera-ready papers, copyright transfer, author conference registration
due
Paper
Formatting Style--Create or check your PDF by IEEE eXpress
SMC2007 has registered for use of a new IEEE tool: IEEE PDF eXpress™
The new IEEE Xplore® Requirements
for PDF will be enforced as of 2005. All conference articles submitted for
inclusion in IEEE Xplore must adhere to the IEEE Xplore PDF specification
for compatibility.
IEEE PDF eXpress is a free service to
IEEE conferences, allowing their authors to make IEEE Xplore-compatible
PDFs (Conversion function) or to check PDFs that authors have made
themselves for IEEE Xplore compatibility (PDF Check function).
Steps
for Final Paper Submission:
Step
1: Prepare Final Paper Manuscript
1.
Create your manuscript(s).
(Click here
to download the pre-formatted Microsoft Word template and model paper; here
to download the LaTex template.)
2.
Proofread and check layout
of manuscript (it is highly recommended that you do this BEFORE going to
IEEE PDF eXpress.)
3.
Go to IEEE
PDF eXpress. Create IEEE PDF eXpress account (Your IEEE PDF
eXpress account and paper ID DO NOT relate to your account and paper ID on
the paper submission system of SMC2007.)
4.
Upload source file(s) for
Conversion; and/or PDF(s) for Checking
5.
Use IEEE PDF eXpress to
attain IEEE Xplore-compatible PDF(s). The site contains extensive
instructions, resources, helpful hints, and access to technical support.
Step
2: Copyright Transfer
Transfer the
copyright of your contributed or invited paper.
Select the paper and click on the link. You may transfer the
copyright electronically. The copyright transfer must be completed before
you may submit the final version of your paper.
Step
3. Conference Registration
All attendees must register for the conference. Please click
here (http://www.smc2007.org/registration.html)
for the detailed registration information. We prefer
on-line payment with a credit card using our e-banking process.
Please note that
all accepted
oral and poster presentation papers (with at
least one author registration) will be published in the proceedings
and all manuscripts published in SMC 2007 will appear in IEEE Xplore and
indexed by EI and INSPEC.
Step
4. Upload Paper Files
Submit final, IEEE Xplore-compatible PDF(s) to the paper
submission system of SMC2007 by following the procedures:
1.
Login to the SMC 2007 Paper
Management System.
With
the account used to submit your paper. If you have forgotten the password,
please click on the Forgot Password link on the login page to have your
password auto-emailed to you.
2.
Click on the 'My Papers' Link to view the list of papers submitted by you.
3.
Accepted papers are marked with a green flag and have their status as
'Accepted' or 'Accepted Poster'.
4.
Click on the Edit Link to view details of your paper. This page lists all
the steps necessary to publish your paper at SMC 2007.
5.
Click on the "Upload Now" button next to "Camera Ready
Paper" to upload your final manuscript.
6.
Please note that you need to verify your final PDF using IEEE PDF Express
and paste the email in the upload page. Papers not complying with the IEEE
standard will not be included in the proceedings.
7.
Once the upload has been successfully done, the status gets updated to
Complete with the date uploaded.
Paper Length
The minimum number of
pages for your paper (oral and poster) is 5. The maximum number of pages
accepted is 8. Extra page charges will be incurred for any paper of more
than 6 pages in length. Example: No additional charges for papers of 5 or
6 pages in length; an extra page charge will be incurred for page 7 and
again for page 8. (Do not play with the margins to fit it between 5 and 6
pages.) Changing the formats described in the template may result in
exclusion from the proceedings if repeated in your final accepted
camera-ready paper.
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