CEC'03 Authors Kits 

PLEASE NOTE: Important changes have been made to the author kit. Please read carefully. Separate submission of the paper's abstract paragraph is no longer required.

The following is an author kit to help you in the preparation of your paper.

No hard copy author kit will be sent.

PAGE LIMIT:

-- REGULAR PAPERS: Your paper may be EIGHT (8) pages, including all figures,

tables, and references.

Note: You will be allowed TWO (2) additional pages for Regular Papers at a

cost of US $150.00 for each extra page.

-- SHORT PAPERS, INDUSTRIAL TRACK/SPECIAL SESSION PAPERS: You are allowed FOUR (4) pages. This includes all figures, tables, and references.

Note: You will be allowed ONE (1) additional page for Short Papers, Industrial Track/Special Session Papers at a cost of US $150.00 for the extra page.

Please make the check payable (in US currency) to CEC 2003 Conference and

mail to:

Professor Kwei-Jay Lin

204B CSE

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of California, Irvine

Irvine, CA 92697-2625

Phone: 949 824 7839

Fax: 949 824 2321

E-mail: klin@ece.uci.edu

PLEASE NOTE: Your paper is due by 27 April 2003.

PLEASE NOTE: A signed copyright release form is due by 27 April 2003.

Please put the conference name - CEC 2003 - on all correspondence, on the copyright form, and on any mailing envelope. This will assure that your correspondence is directed immediately to my desk.

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION:

Please submit your paper electronically to our FTP site.

-- The paper should be uploaded at:

ftp://ieeecs@ftp.computer.org/press/incoming/proceedings/cec03/

Password: benefit

If you are uploading your paper using an FTP transfer software, you will need to login into our ftp site at: ftp://ftp.computer.org.

Logon as: ieeecs

Password: benefit

-- Please prepare your U.S. Letter-size (8.5" x 11") paper as a plain ASCII PostScript file with NO encoding, condensing, or encapsulation. If you plan to submit a PDF file, you MUST adhere to the following PDF specifications:

Basic PDF distiller settings MUST be changed to:

-- optimized,

-- Acrobat 4.0 compatibility,

-- all graphics at least 300 dpi resolution,

-- ALL fonts are embedded and subset,

-- postscript settings DO NOT override distiller settings,

-- page size is 612.0 x 792.0 points (8.5" x 11").

IMPORTANT: Authors must check their final pdf files before submission to verify that all fonts have been properly embedded and subset. Some font manufacturers now flag their fonts to not embed. These fonts must be avoided.

-- All fonts MUST be Type 1 or 3 PostScript fonts from the Latin 1 Fontset.

Our PostScript printers will not recognize any other fonts. Do not use TrueType, bitmapped, or Ryumin fonts. More information regarding

PostScript fonts is available at:

http://typedriverssupport.adobe.com/adobeknowbase/root/public/tm40b2.htm?DREID=8674

-- Guidelines for generating and submitting PostScript files are available on our Internet site at:

http://computer.org/author/psguide.htm

-- Some older FTP applications (RapidFTP included) may require

the user to choose a remote operating system type. In these

instances choose: "MS Windows NT - Unix."

FILE NAME:

-- IMPORTANT NOTE: Please use your last name, first initial when naming and sending your file to the above FTP site, followed by a keyword from your paper title. For example, the filename for J. Smith submitting the paper titled: "On Urquhart's C Logic"

would be <smithj_urquhart.ps>

-- If you are submitting two or more files, please number them:

smithj_urquhart1.ps, smithj_urquhart2.ps, etc.

-- If there is a file with the same name already in the directory, please use a variation.

-- Files are automatically moved off the FTP site. Please do not re-post your paper if you do not see it on the site.

COPYRIGHT FORM:

-- Please FAX your signed copyright release form to

Stephanie Kawada at +1 714 761 1784.

-- We cannot publish your paper without this permission.

-- PLEASE NOTE: The copyright form is an attachment to this e-mail.

-- If you prefer, you may mail your copyright form to the following address:

Stephanie Kawada - CEC 2003

IEEE Computer Society Press

10662 Los Vaqueros Circle

Los Alamitos, California 90720 USA

ATTACHMENTS:

The following customized attachments to this author kit contain:

-- INSTRUCTIONS

Guidelines for formatting your paper for the proceedings.

-- COPYRIGHT RELEASE FORM

This copyright release form MUST BE COMPLETED, SIGNED AND RETURNED WITH YOUR PAPER. Note: You are stating that the material in your paper is original and you have not previously released copyright to it. We cannot publish your paper without this properly filled-out and signed form. Sign the second line only if you are a U.S. government employee.

-- REPRINT ORDER FORM

If you wish to order reprints of your paper, make checks payable to the IEEE

Computer Society. (The reprints.pdf attachment below will allow you to type

your information directly into the form before you print it out.) If these attached files become corrupt during transmission, you may access uncustomized copies at our FTP site:

ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/

LATEX MACROS:

LaTeX formatting macros are also available on our FTP site.

-- Proceedings 8.5 x 11 format - Filename: IEEE_CS_Latex.zip

Available at:

ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Stephanie Kawada.

Stephanie Kawada

IEEE Computer Society Press

10662 Los Vaqueros Circle

Los Alamitos, CA 90720-1264

Fax: +1 714 761 1784

E-mail: skawada@computer.org

Attachments:

-- IEEE Copyright Form

-- Instruction

-- Reprints