PLEASE NOTE:

Our Paper Submission Email Address has Been Updated and listed Below:

msrlab@microsoft.com

Information for Authors

Please follow the new version of the "Authors' Instructions" (in PDF format) for the printed and the electronic volumes. (You can also download it in PS format.) 

From now on manuscripts must be accompanied by a signed copyright form

Please send a printout of your contribution, your files (see below), and the completed and signed copyright form to the Proceeding Committee. They will check the contributions, decide in which order they shall appear in the book, and send the complete manuscript, the complete files, and the complete copyright forms of their volume on to us.

Proceedings　

You will get the best results and your files will be easiest to handle if you use LaTex2e for the preparation of your camera-ready manuscript together with the corresponding Springer class file llncs.cls. Only if you use LaTeX2e and llncs.cls will we be able to add hyperlinks to your manuscript in the online version. The LaTeX2e macro package for LNCS contains further files: llncs.dem is a sample input file which you may take as a source for your own input. llncs.doc (a TEX FILE) is the documentation of the class, here you can find detailed instructions showing how the macro package works. llncs.dvi is the resulting DVI file of llncs.doc to enable you to print out the documentation directly. We also provide the LaTeX2e source file of the "Authors' Instructions", which may serve as a further sample input. You can download it as a ZIP archive or you can download the TEX file for the text and the EPS file for the figure separately.

If you are not able to use LaTeX2e, you may use old macro packages for LaTeX or for TeX.

We also provide the template sv-lncs.dot (for use with PC systems) or sv-lncs (for use with Macintosh systems) to help MS Word users to prepare their camera-ready manuscripts and to enable us to use their source files for the online version of the LNCS. Please read the documentation of the template sv-lncs.doc carefully (also available in PDF format), we also provide typeinst.doc, our "Authors' Instructions" as an example input. You can download all four files as a ZIP archive. With some Web browsers the templates may be destroyed during transfer. Thus it is better to download the ZIP archive.

We would like to stress that the style files should not be manipulated and that the guidelines regarding font size and format should be adhered to. This is to ensure that the end product is as homogeneous as possible.

If you are unable to use LaTeX or MS Word, you may use any other text processing system. In this case, please follow our "Authors' Instructions" (see above) closely in order to make the volume look as uniform as possible. Some editors and authors have prepared templates for different text processing systems. These templates are neither checked nor supported by Springer. You can find them on the authors' template exchange Web site.

Headings

Headings should be capitalized (i.e., nouns, verbs, and all other words except articles, prepositions, and conjunctions should be set with an initial capital) and should, with the exception of the title, be aligned to the left. Words joined by a hyphen are subject to a special rule. If the first word can stand alone, the second word should be capitalized.

Here are some examples of headings: "Criteria to Disprove Context-Freeness of Collage Languages", "On Correcting the Intrusion of Tracing Non-deterministic Programs by Software", "A User-Friendly and Extendable Data Distribution System", "Multi-flip Networks: Parallelizing GenSAT".

Figures

If possible, please produce your figures electronically and integrate them into your text-file. For LaTeX and TeX users we recommend using the style-files psfig or epsf.

How to Submit Your Manuscript

Please submit 

1) Two hardcopies of your own single-sided printout of the final camera-ready version of your accepted paper. Each oral paper will be strictly limited to 8 pages. Papers over 8 pages will be excluded from the proceedings. Each poster paper will be strictly limited to 6 pages.

2)Copyrigh form

To: Le Guo
     Microsoft Research China
     3F, Beijing Sigma Center
     No.49, ZhiChun Road, Haidian District
     Beijing, 100080, P.R.China
     Fax: (86)-10-8809-7305

By June 25, 2001.

3) Please also submit a softcopy in PS or PDF form of your accepted paper to msrlab@microsoft.com with the title "paper number: XXX". If you used LaTeX in creating the final camera-ready, please include in the final submission the following: a) the final PS file; b) TEX files for the text; c) PS or EPS files for figures, d) the final DVI file (for papers prepared using LaTeX or TeX). If you have prepared your paper using a word processing system other than LaTeX or Tex, please also submit RTF files. When generating the PS file please avoid using the option "reverse order". Make sure that the text is identical in all cases.

4)In order for yours paper to be included in the Proceedings, please register before June 30th.

Supplementary Material

If you have supplementary material on your server, please give the volume editors a short description and inform them of the URL at which the material can be found. Then we will add the description of the supplementary material to the LNCS Online and create a link to your server.

Contact

If you have any question regarding the formats or final submission, please contact the proceeding Chair:

Dr. YuanChun Shi
Institute of HCI and Media Integration
Department of Computer Science and Technology
Tsinghua University,
Beijing, 100084, P.R.China
Phone: 86-10-62784141
Fax: 86-10-62771138
Email: shiyc@tsinghua.edu.cn