All questions related to initial and final manuscript submission should be directed to the Publications Co-Chair: Professors Dawn Tilbury (tilbury@umich.edu) and Ben M. Chen (bmchen@nus.edu.sg).

48th CDC Submission and Registration Policies All papers submitted to the 48th CDC, whether for review or publication upon acceptance, must be written in English and formatted in the standard 2-column format provided on PaperPlaza For the purpose of "review", all regular and invited papers are limited to eight (8) pages. PaperPlaza will not permit longer papers to be uploaded. The decision regarding the acceptance of each paper is at the discretion of the conference's Technical Program Committee. For "publication" in the conference proceedings, all accepted and invited papers are limited to six (6) pages. Authors may upload longer manuscript up to a maximum of eight (8) pages total. However, each page in excess of six will incur a charge of USD 175. If the paper is accepted, at least one of the authors listed on the paper must attend the conference and present the paper according to the scheduling decided by the conference's Technical Program Committee. In the event that the presenter is unable to attend the conference for any reason, it is his responsibility to insure that the paper is presented by a qualified colleague. At least one of the authors listed on the paper must register for the 48th CDC at full member/non-member rate to upload the final manuscript. Please note: If an author registers at reduced registration rate (student/retiree), s/he will not be able to use that registration to upload the final paper.

All papers must be submitted electronically using PaperPlaza Only PDF files will be accepted. Page size requirement: http://css.paperplaza.net/conferences/support/page.php Caution: US Letter and margins settings below are required for the final submission.   Letter paper Paper Size (8.5x11.0)in (21.59x27.94)cm Top margin (1 st page) 1.0in 2.54cm Top margin (pages 2+) 0.75in 1.9cm Left margin 0.75in 1.9cm Right margin 0.75in 1.9cm Bottom margin 0.75in 1.9cm Sample Paper and style files or templates Note: Initial submissions may be up to 8 pages. However, for final submission, paper should be 6 pages long. Any page over 6 pages will be charged USD 175.00/page up to a maximum of two extra pages. Caution: Style files and templates provided here have been created to ensure that margin requirement is adequately met. MS WORD MS Word template: ieeeconf_letter.dot Sample Documents: sample_letter.doc LaTeX LaTeX style file: ieeeconf.cls LaTeX sample document: sample.tex REMINDER: Authors are responsible for submitting their paper in the required format. All papers that are accepted will be published as submitted by the Author. The Conference is NOT responsible for editing or correcting errors in the paper. [ Return to TOP ]

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