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Paper abstracts have been submitted and accepted for the conference. These papers will be presented in 30-minute talks at the conference. Final papers, publishing agreements, and author biographies are due to the committee on March 17, 2008.

Instructions for Paper Submission
Your paper will be published and distributed to conference attendees in USB Flash Drive format. In order to publish your paper with the conference proceedings, we must have a publishing agreement, which must be submitted along with your paper and your author biography by the due date. Author biographies will be used by Session Chairs to introduce presenters. Step-by-step instructions for submitting these documents are at the bottom of this page.

Preparing Papers for Conference Proceedings
Note: Failure to comply with these instructions may result in your paper being returned and cause a delay in publication.

Acknowledgement: The LaTeX and Word templates referred to below were developed and designed by Springer-Verlag. We would like to thank them for granting us permission to use those templates here.

LaTeX2e users should use the corresponding class file llncs.cls so we be able to add hyperlinks to your manuscript in the online version. The LaTeX2e macro package 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 the documentation directly.

MS Word users may download the template sv-lncs.dot (PC) or sv-lncs (Mac) to help you prepare your papers. Please read the document Using the Template for Word carefully. It contains preliminary information that you need to know before you start working with the template. You can download the template as a ZIP file. With some Web browsers the templates may be destroyed during transfer. Thus it is better to download the ZIP archive.

In order to ensure that all papers have the same style, style files should not be manipulated and guidelines regarding font sizes and format should be adhered to, unless otherwise noted.

The following instructions will help you prepare your manuscripts. Please read them carefully before you start. If the software that you use to compose your paper is not capable of producing type sizes that exactly match those in the specifications, try to obtain as close a match as possible.

Style Samples
For reference, see sample papers, in PDF format, that were created in LaTeX2e and Word.

Abstract
The abstract should summarize the contents of the paper, containing a minimum of 70 and a maximum of 150 words. The text's font size should be set at 9 points and should be inset 1.0 cm from the right and 1.0 cm from the left margins. There should be two 10-point line spaces before and after the abstract.

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".

Use the following point sizes and styles for heading levels in your paper:

Layout, Typefaces, Font Sizes, and Numbering
The main text should be justified to occupy the full line width, so that the right margin is not ragged, with words hyphenated as appropriate. Fill the pages so that the length of the text is no less than 180 mm.

Use 10-point type for the name(s) of the author(s) and 9-point type for the address(es) and the abstract. For the main text, use 10-point font and single-line spacing. We recommend using Computer Modern Roman (CM) fonts, Times, or one similar. (The letters in these fonts have short endstrokes at the head and the foot called serifs.) Italic style may be used to emphasize words in running text. Bold type and underlining should be avoided. With these sizes, the interline distance should be set so that some 45 lines occur on a full-text page.

Table Captions
Position all table captions above the tables. The last sentence of a table caption should end without a period.

Lemmas, Propositions, and Theorems
The numbers accorded to lemmas, propositions, and theorems etc. should appear in consecutive order, starting with the number 1, and not, for example, with the number 11.

Figures
Check that in line drawings, lines are not interrupted and have constant width. Grids and details within the figures must be clearly readable and may not be written one on top of the other. The lettering within figures should have a height of 2 mm (10-point type). Figures should be scaled up or down accordingly. Please do not use any absolute coordinates in figures.

Paste the figures into the manuscript and center them between the margins. Figures should be accompanied by a caption that includes the number of the figure (9-point type, bold) and the test that describes the figure. The caption should appear under the related figure, centered between the margins, and set in 9-point type. The distance between the main text and the top of the figure should be about 8 mm; the distance between the bottom of the figure and the caption should be about 5 mm.

If you use LaTeX please define figures as floating objects. Avoid using the location parameter "h" for here. If you have to insert a page break before a figure, please ensure that the previous page is completely filled.

Formulas
Displayed equations or formulas are centered and set on a separate line (with an extra line or half line space above and below). Displayed expressions should be numbered for reference. The numbers should be consecutive within each section or within the contribution, with numbers enclosed in parentheses and set on the right margin. Punctuate a displayed equation in the same way as ordinary text but with a small space before the end punctuation.

Program Code
Program listings or program commands in the text are normally set in a monospace font, such as Courier or CMTT10. The following is an example of program code style: 

      executable = /usr/bsd/uptime
      transfer_executable = false
      globusscheduler = xx.xxxx.xxxx.edu/jobmanager
      universe = globus
      output = test1.out
      log = test1.log
      queue

Footnotes
The superscript numeral used to refer to a footnote appears in the text either directly after the word to be discussed or in relation to a phrase or a sentence following the punctuation sign (comma, semicolon, or period). Footnotes should appear at the bottom of the normal text area, with a line length of about 2 cm in TeX and about 5 cm in Word set immediately above them. The footnote numeral is set flush left, and the text follows with the usual word spacing. Second and subsequent lines are indented. Footnotes should end with a period.

Citations
The list of references is headed References and is not assigned a number in the decimal system of headings. The list should be set in small print and placed at the end of your contribution, in front of the appendix, if one exists. Please do not insert a page break before the list of references if the page is not completely filled. An example is given at the end of this information sheet. For citations in the text please use square brackets and consecutive numbers: [1], [2], [3] . . . .

Page Numbering and Running Heads
Your paper should include page numbers. No page number should appear on the Title page. Consecutive numbering should begin on the second page with the Arabic numeral 2 at the top of the page. Even page numbers should flush left, and odd page numbers flush right. Running heads should include the name of the author(s) on the left pages, after the page numbers, and the title of the paper on the right pages, preceding the page numbers.

Page Limits
Although somewhat flexible, we would like to receive papers from 8 to 25 pages in length.

Submitting Your Paper, Publishing Agreement, and Author Bio
Ultimately, papers will be published as PDF files and distributed to conference attendees in USB Flash Drive format. To facilitate this, we require that your paper be submitted as a PDF (strongly preferred), a PostScript or a Microsoft Word file. Submissions are being handled by the EDAS system. To submit your paper, publishing agreement, and author biography, please follow these instructions:

  1. To upload the final manuscript:
    1. Visit the EDAS Login for LCI 2008 page.
    2. Log in with your EDAS I.D. and password.
    3. Click the "Submit Manuscript" icon and follow the instructions.

  2. To fill out the publishing agreement:
    1. Visit the EDAS Login for LCI 2008 page.
    2. Log in with your EDAS I.D. and password.
    3. Click your paper's title, and then click on the "Copyright Form" icon to record your copyright/publising agreement.

  3. To submit the author biography:
    1. Visit the EDAS Login for LCI 2008 page.
    2. Log in with your EDAS I.D. and password.
    3. Click your paper's title, and then make sure that you are listed as the presenter.
    4. Click the "Presenter" icon and choose the author who will present the paper.
    5. Click "My Profile" at the top of the page.
    6. Enter the presenter's biographical information in the "Brief Bio" text box.
    7. Click the "Change Profile" button at the bottom of the page to submit the biography and any other changes that you made.

Final papers, agreements, and biographies are due on March 17, 2008.

If you have any questions, please contact John Towns, jtowns@ncsa.uiuc.edu.