Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions
Important: Register for the Conference
To be published in the IWQoS 2013 Conference Proceedings (as well as the ACM Portal and IEEE Xplore), an author of an accepted full or short paper is required to register for IWQoS at the full (member or non-member) rate and must present the paper at the conference. Registrations that accompany papers to appear in the Proceedings of IWQoS 2013 must be submitted online on or before April 30, 2013. Papers without full (non-student) registrations after April 30, 2013 may be withdrawn from the conference Proceedings. Each full registration may only cover one research (full or short) paper.
Note: If after reading all instructions, you still have questions, please contact the program co-chairs at iwqos2013@easychair.org
1: Formatting Instructions
Please format your final paper as a PDF file in the IEEE conference proceedings 8.5"x11" two-column format (same as the submission format).
Full papers can be up to 10 pages in 10pt fonts, and short papers can be up to 6 pages in 10pt fonts.
Please follow the formatting instructions and templates from IEEE. Be sure to use the template's conference mode.
2: Important Deadlines
PAPER DEADLINE: Final paper is due by Apr 30th, 2013.
COPYRIGHT DEADLINE: A signed copyright release form is also due by Apr 30, 2013.
3: PDF eXpress
Plus Online File Conversion/PDF Validation Tool
All papers will be available on the IEEE Xplore digital library as well
as the ACM digital library. For IEEE, all papers submitted for
publication must meet
the IEEE standards.
Access to PDF eXpress Plus, the IEEE's online file conversion/PDF
validation tool, will assist authors in preparing suitable electronic
files of their final papers.
PDF eXpress Plus helps authors convert their papers into IEEE Xplore-compatible
PDF files (conversion function)
or to check their own PDF files for IEEE Xplore compatibility (PDF
validation function).
Important: After using PDF eXpress
Plus, you will still need to submit the IEEE Xplore-compatible PDF file
of your final paper later in this publication submission process (see
STEP
6).
a) PDF eXpress Plus will be available for use on April
25th, 2013.
Go to http://www.pdf-express.org/plus and
follow the instructions.
Conference ID: iwqos13x
b) If
you would like to create your own PDF file, please change the setting on
your PDF distiller to insure your paper meets IEEE PDF specifications.
Basic PDF distiller settings MUST be changed to:
Optimized,
Acrobat 5.0 compatibility,
ALL graphics at least 300 dpi resolution (higher if preferred),
ALL fonts MUST be embedded and subset,
Postscript settings DO NOT override distiller settings,
Page size is 612.0 x 792.0 points
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.
c) If you would like
to submit your source
file to PDF eXpress Plus for conversion and validation, PDF eXpress Plus
converts the following file types to PDF:
Postscript
Microsoft Word
Freelance
PageMaker
FrameMaker
Word Pro
WordPerfect
QuarkXpress*
Rich Text Format
(La)TeX
(DVI and all support files required)*
* For documents created in
formats that do not embed source files, include all support files with
the final manuscript in a compressed archive for submission. If it is
possible to embed images in the source document, you should do so to
avoid potential issues,
such as missing graphics.
4: Renaming your PDF File
for Submission
The certified acceptable file
you receive from PDF eXpress will be given a filename in the form
PID123456.pdf. You should rename this exact file to conform to the
following naming convention: lastname-paperID.pdf, where lastname is the
last name of the first author, and paperID is the paper ID assigned to
your submission in the easychair system. Please ignore the naming
instruction in the approval for collection link.
5: Submitting a
Copyright Release Form
All authors have to submit the
copyright of their
papers to IEEE in order to have their papers included in the IWQoS
program and conference proceedings. The authors must obtain all
clearances related to the publication. You can download the copyright
form from the IEEE
Copyright Form web page.
This copyright release form MUST be COMPLETED when you
are submitting your paper.
Please note that you are stating that the material in your paper is
original and you have not previously released copyright for this paper
to another party. We cannot publish your paper without this properly
completed form.
A scanned copy of the signed IEEE copyright form in
PDF format should
be sent by email to Zhichun
Li at zhichun@nec-labs.com.
STEP 6: Final Paper
PDF File Submission
Submit your
paper through PDF eXpress Plus and when you are happy with the PDF file,
click on the "approve for collection" link. Rename your file as
explained in Step 4. Your paper will be collected from the PDF eXpress
Plus site.