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Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review
for any other publication. Authors of accepted papers will need to sign a
copyright release form and present their paper at the conference. Accepted
papers will be published by IEEE Press. Selected papers will be published in the special
issues of Journals. Before submitting your paper, please check the description of
the conference scope in the
Call for Papers.
All papers being submitted to MSN'08 must be registered and then submitted in
EDAS by 8:00
PM US EDT June 29, 2008.
Formatting your Paper for Submission
Please be sure your paper is formatted properly for submission. In
particular, please note the following format requirements:
- Your submission must be in PDF format. Whatever text processor or
formatter you use to write your paper (LaTeX, Microsoft Word, FrameMaker,
etc.), please convert the output to PDF before submission.
- Your submission must be correctly formatted to fit on U.S. "Letter" size
paper, which is 8.5 inches wide by 11 inches tall. Please be sure you have a
margin of 1 inch on all edges (top, bottom, left, and right) of each page.
- Paper submissions for regular papers must be limited to
10 pages
including text, figures, references, and appendices; single- or
double-column are fine for submissions.
- The font size used in the text of your submission must not be smaller
than 10 points.
- We must be able to print your paper once it is submitted. Due to the
large variety of systems available for formatting papers and producing PDF,
this is not always possible for some systems. To maximize the chances that
your paper will print correctly, please use only standard printer fonts
(e.g., Times Roman, Helvetica, etc.) or standard TeX Computer Modern fonts;
other fonts may be used but must be included in the PDF file. The use of
standard printer fonts is strongly preferred over TeX fonts, if possible.
- The paper must be able to print clearly on standard black-and-white
printers. Reviewers are not required to view your paper in color, and the
final version of all accepted papers will be published in only
black-and-white in the conference Proceedings.
Actually Submitting your Paper
All papers for MSN'08 must be submitted electronically through the
EDAS Conference Management System.
Logging in to EDAS
- Using EDAS requires logging in first. If you already have an account,
enter your email address (or your numeric EDAS ID#) and password in the
fields on the form on the EDAS home page.
- If you do not know whether you have an account on this EDAS system, try
entering your email address or name. EDAS will check for your account and
let you know whether it knows about you.
- If you have an account but have forgotten your password, leave the
password field blank, and EDAS will mail your password to you.
- If you do not yet have an account on the EDAS system, click on the link
there to "create your new user account." Fill in the resulting form and the
click on the New User button there. Mandatory fields are listed in red;
optional fields are listed in black. The password for accessing the EDAS
system will be sent to you via email. Once you receive your password, you
should return to EDAS and log in.
Registering your Paper
- After logging in to EDAS, you will see your overall EDAS system
homepage. Find "MSN'08" among the list of conferences accepting submissions.
To begin the process of submitting your paper, click on "Submissions and
management" for MSN'08. This will bring you to the MSN'08 EDAS homepage.
- You should then see the web form for registering your paper submission.
Fill in the form:
- Enter the authors of the paper. Enter each author using either their
EDAS identifier or their last name. Each author must be registered in
EDAS; if an author is not yet registered in EDAS, you will be prompted
for the information to register them. You must also select one of the
authors to be the correspondence author.
- Enter the title and abstract of the paper.
- Select the topics from the list of paper topics that best classify
your paper.
- Once you have filled in all information for your paper, click on the
Submit button at the bottom of that page. This will show you a page that
acknowledges your paper's registration.
Submitting and Uploading your Paper
- After registering your paper submission, you must upload your actual
paper.
- To upload your paper right after registering your submission, simply
follow EDAS instructions on the acknowledgement page.
- Alternatively, you can upload your paper later from your MSN'08 EDAS
homepage. From there, you can upload your paper by clicking on the icon
in the line that shows your paper's listing, or via ftp, or email as per
instructions on that page.
- After you return to your MSN'08 EDAS homepage, you will see your
uploaded paper. If you click on the paper number, you will see the paper
details. If you click on the paper under "Manuscript", you will see the PDF
version that you uploaded.
- From your MSN'08 EDAS homepage, you can see the status of your paper.
Initially, when you are registered but yet to upload your paper, EDAS will
show the status as
to show that no version of your paper PDF file has been uploaded yet. After
your paper has been uploaded, the status will change to
to indicate that the paper is under review.
Revising your Paper or Account
- After you have submitted your paper, you can revise your submission at
any time before the submission deadline of 8 PM US EDT, June 25, 2008.
- To revise your paper, please use the procedure here to upload the new
revised version of your existing registered paper. Please do not register
and submit the new version as if it were a separate new paper, since this
will duplicate the paper registration records.
- You can also revise your own EDAS account information from your MSN'08
EDAS homepage. To do so, click on the link at the top to edit your profile.
Additional Information
For general information on the MSN'08 paper submission or the scope of
technical papers solicited, please refer to the
Call for Papers .
For any other questions about the submission process or paper format, please
contact the Program Co-Chairs. If you have any technical problems with EDAS,
please contact edas-help@edas.info .
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