Dear Authors:

The following is an author kit to help you in the preparation of your paper.  No hard copy author kit will be sent.

Regular papers are allowed a total of EIGHT (8) pages for your paper. Short papers are allowed a total of FOUR (4) pages.  Invited tracks are allowed a total of TWO (2) pages or FOUR (4) pages, please check with your track chair for the page allowed. This includes all figures, tables, and references. Up to TWO (2) extra pages may be purchased at $200.00 per extra page.

Please send extra pages charges to:

Attn: Ms. Louanne Geng
IBM China Research Lab
2/F Haohai Bldg.
No.7 5th St. Shangdi
Haidian District, Beijing, 100085 PRC
Tel: (8610) 62986677
Fax: (8610) 82899633
gengmy@cn.ibm.com

PLEASE NOTE: Your paper is due by 28 June 2004.

PLEASE NOTE: A signed copyright release form is due by 28 June 2004.

Please make sure you are registered for CEC-EAST 2004. If you are not,  your paper will not be included in the conference book.

Please put the conference name - CEC-EAST 2004 - 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/cec04east/
Password: benefit

If you are uploading your paper using a 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 application (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, preceded by the paper id. Below is an attached spreadsheet, where you will find your name, paper name and its paper id. For example, the filename for J. Smith submitting the paper titled:
"On Urquhart's C Logic" with the Paper ID #302 would be <302_smithj.ps>
If you are submitting two or more files, please number them with the appropriate ID:
302_smithj.ps, 332_smithj.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
JD Cantarella 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:

Attn: JD Cantarella/CEC'04 EAST
IEEE Computer Society Press
10662 Los Vaqueros Circle
Los Alamitos, California 90720 USA

ATTACHMENTS:
There are several customized attachments to this author kit. They contain:

AUTHOR GUIDELINES (click to download)
Instructions on formatting your paper for the proceedings.

COPYRIGHT RELEASE FORM (click to download)
A copyright release form that MUST BE SIGNED AND RETURNED WITH YOUR PAPER. Note that 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.

REPRINT ORDER FORM (click to download)
To use if you wish reprints of your paper. Please make checks for reprints out 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 attached files become unusable during transmission for any reason, you may also access uncustomized copies of them 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: LaTex macros.zip

Available at:

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

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

Sincerely,
JD Cantarella
IEEE Computer Society Press
10662 Los Vaqueros Circle
Los Alamitos, CA 90720-1264
Fax: +1 714 761 1784
Email: presseditor3@computer.org

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