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SBRN 2008: Paper Submission

Submission Instructions

Paper registration and submissions to SBIA 2008 will be handled using the JEMS system, which will be open for registration and submission from February 18, 2008. The address is:

JEMS system address

Submission is a three-step process. In a first step authors are required to register as new authors with JEMS (note that only 1 registration is needed if you submit more than 1 paper). After registration as author the login data will be sent to the specified email address. This data can be used to access the system.

In a second step authors have to register their paper (click the submit paper button in JEMS). The authors are asked in this step to specify the name of the authors, the paper title, its topics and the paper category (regular, student: the first author is a student or not). The system will then assign a tracking ID to each submission, which is sent to the contact author. The deadline for paper registration is March 24, 23:55 BRST.

The third step consists on uploading the paper. This step can be done jointly with the registering step. For those authors who prefer to upload their papers after registering, the tracking ID must be used. The deadline for paper uploading is March 25, 23:55 BRST.

We will only accept files in pdf format. Please do not try to upload other formats, they will be rejected by the system. Note also that we only accept electronic submissions through JEMS. Please do not send papers directly to the PC-chairs. Submissions sent by regular courrier or by email will not be considered.

Format

All accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series. Authors of accepted papers will then be required to sign copyright release forms.

Papers must be written in English and must not exceed 10 pages, including title, abstract, all tables, figures, and references. Overlength submissions will be rejected without review. Authors should use the style file of Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes to minimise the possible conflict of paper length when preparing the camera ready. More detailed information can be found here.

Also, please include keywords in your article (after the abstract) when submitting your paper, in order to facilitate the revision process, especially if you have selected "Other" as a topic during the submission of your abstract). Please assign at least one topic to your paper.

Submissions violating the formatting guidelines will be excluded from the reviewing process.

Double Blind Review Process

All papers received will be reviewed by at least two referees in the topical area.

Reviewing for SBIA 2008 papers will be blind to the identities of the authors and their institutions. To allow for blind reviewing replace the authors line in your paper by the tracking ID assigned at the end of the registering step (or leave it empty in case you are not able to remember this ID). Please avoid identifying self-references. Replace phrases like "We have shown in [n]..." by "In [n] it has been shown...".

Papers which are not anonymous will be *excluded* from the reviewing process.

Finally, please take a minute to do the checklist:

1. Is your paper in the correct format (LNCS/Springer)?
2. Does your paper have a maximum of 10 pages?
3. Is your paper in pdf format?
4. Is your paper anonymous?
5. Did you include keywords together with your abstract?

Submission Policy

Obligation to Present in Case of Acceptance

By submitting papers to SBIA 2008, the authors agree that in case of acceptance at least one author registers to the conference and presents the paper. Furthermore, it is the conference policy that at least one of the authors of accepted papers has to register *before* the deadline for sending the camera-ready paper. Accepted papers without a corresponding author registration before the deadline will not be published in the proceedings.

Multiple Submission Policy

Papers submitted to SBIA 2008 should present substantial new results in theoretical, empirical or applied research in one or more of the Conference topics. SBIA 2008 allows simultaneous submission of papers to other conferences, provided that this fact is clearly indicated by the authors in the submission process:

1. By stating the multiple submission in the text of the paper, preferably with a footnote on the first page;
2. By sending a message to the PC-chairs, after the registration step, giving details about the multiple submission (which conference, which editor, status of the other submission).