Camera-ready Paper Preparation Guidelines (Deadline: August 25th, 2006)

Simple Instructions (link to detailed instructions)

It is important that you follow these instructions closely. If your submission does not conform to the guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendment. If you are unable to update your paper in time to meet the publication deadline, it will not be published.

All conference articles submitted to CIS 2006 will be included in IEEE Xplore. These articles must adhere to the IEEE Xplore PDF specification for compatibility.

Step 1. Prepare your final manuscript using the IEEE two-column format. Please follow the templates which can be downloaded here:

• MSWord Template
• Latex Template
• Sample PDF file

The maximum length for "extended papers" is 6 pages.
The maximum length for "regular papers" is 4 pages.

Step 2. Proofread and check layout of manuscript.

Step 3. Create an IEEE PDF eXpress account.

Log on to IEEE PDF eXpress (http://216.228.1.34/pdfexpress/log.asp) using the Conference ID: cis06

Create a new account if necessary (this account is different from your CIS submission account).

Step 4 and 5. Upload source file(s) to IEEE PDF eXpress for Conversion; and/or PDF(s) for Checking 

For each paper uploaded to IEEE PDF eXpress, you will receive an email with your Checked PDF or IEEE PDF eXpress-converted PDF attached. Retry if you're unsuccessful.

After successful checking or conversion (which may take some time), you'll have a PDF file with a filename PIDxxxxx. Please DO NOT rename this file.

Step 6. In order to publish your paper in the proceedings, we require the manuscript itself and a signed copyright form. You can download the form from this page. The copyright form should be completed, signed, and scanned as an image file.

Step 7. Submit a compressed file named paperID.zip or paperID.rar (e.g., if your paper ID is: AP123456, the compressed file name should be: AP123456.zip or AP123456.rar) consisting of the following three files:

1. The final IEEE Xplore-compatible PDF created by IEEE PDF Express (PIDxxxxx.pdf)
2. Your source files, including all figure files (named as PIDxxxxx.doc for MS word file or PIDxxxxx.tex for latex file, etc, where the PIDxxxxx must be the same as PIDxxxxx in PIDxxxxx.pdf generated by IEEE PDF Express. You can use your defined file names for your figures).
3. The completed and signed copyright form (scanned as an image file).

The compressed file should be submitted through the online system at http://210.27.5.143/cis/crp/