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1. Hints for Preparing Your Manuscript

 

... in a Nutshell

 

Templates:
We'd really appreciate if you 'd use LNCS style in combination with our proceedings template which contains some special headers. Please download the following files:
template_proceedings.tex, llncs.cls, splncs.bst,
(optional: example.bib, figure1.jpg, template_proceedings.pdf).

For Unix-users: Use latex2pdf or dvipdf to generate an uncrypted pdf.

For Windows-users: We suggest using MikTex in combination with TeXnic Center.

 

LNCS Style*

You will get the best results and your files will be easiest to handle if you use LaTeX2e for the preparation of your manuscript together with the corresponding Springer class file llncs.cls. Only if you use LaTeX2e and llncs.cls will we be able to add hyperlinks to your manuscript in the online version. The LaTeX2e macro package for LNCS 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 out the documentation directly. We also provide the LaTeX2e source file of the "Authors' Instructions", which may serve as a further sample input. You can download it as a ZIP archive.

Authors may also use MS Word. We provide the template sv-lncs.dot (for use with PC systems) or sv-lncs (for use with Macintosh systems) to help MS Word users to prepare their manuscripts and to enable us to use their source files for the online version of the LNCS. Please read the documentation of the template provided in typeinst.doc, this file can also be used as sample input. You can download all four files as a ZIP archive.

For more information please refer to Springer's "Information for LNCS Authors" web page.

 

Producing a PDF version of your manuscript **

PDF documents can be produced either by using commercial software available from Adobe or by using free conversion tools such as those available at http://www.gobcl.com/, http://www.pdf995.com/, http://www.ps2pdf.com/convert/convert.htm for Windows or the ps2pdf  and pdflatex utilities under Unix/Linux. Please, preview your PDF file with acrobat reader to check that all the fonts and figures are properly reproduced before submitting the manuscript.
To enable full text search inside your publication, please note*** that in some cases, True Type fonts that have gone through a PostScript driver and Distiller can no longer be searched, copied, cut, or pasted. To minimize this problem, use Distiller on the same system on which the PostScript file was created, and make sure that the True Type fonts used in the file are available on the system.

 

* (from Springer's "Information for LNCS Authors" web page
** (from gal4.ge.uiuc.edu/GECCO-2004/submissions.html)
*** (from ADOBE ACROBAT 4.0: Using Acrobat Distiller)

 

2. Submission Guidelines

 

Upload Tool

 

For submitting a paper or abstract, you have to use our "Upload Tool" which you reach via the "Materials" web page of your seminar:

1. Goto www.dagstuhl.de/Materials/index.en.phtml?<sem.-no.>

   (where <sem.-no.> has to be replaced by the 5-digits number of your Dagstuhl Seminar, e.g. 10161 .

   There are two categories for submission:

   • Seminar wide contributions
     Click the "manage documents"-button besides "Seminar Wide Materials" to upload papers presenting contents / results of the seminar as a whole or of group work.
   • Individual contributions
     Click the "manage documents"-button besides your name to upload a paper or abstract you are author of.
2. You will be directed to the "Select Title" page where you can choose which one of your documents you want to work on or add a new document/title.
3. Then you will be directed to the "Upload" page.

   The "Upload" page manages two platforms:

   • the "Materials" platform of your seminar (light blue).
     Here, you can upload any materials you'd like to use before, during or after your seminar.
   • the "Submission" platform (red).
     Hereto, you have to submit these files of your current document which you want to submit for publication in "Dagstuhl Online Proceedings".

 

Abstracts Collection

 

To submit an abstract for the abstracts collection, you just have to

1. complete and correct the meta data of your document.

We write all meta data of one seminar into one document. Thus, your meta data will become one section of the abstracts collection.

 

 

Paper / Extended Abstract

 

To submit a document for publication, you have to

1. correct the meta data of your document,
2. upload your contribution (e.g. pdf-paper / extended abstract) to the "Materials" platform (which acts now as a kind of staging post),
3. use the button <--> to copy the paper from the "Materials" platform to the "Submission" platform,
4. press the submit button "Submit Now" to submit your document including meta data.

Please note that papers can only be submitted using this upload tool!

 

3. Copyright and Other Publications

 

Dagstuhl does not ask for a copyright transfer; the copyright stays with the author.
Further questions about copyright, future or former publications, etc? Please visit legal aspects, copyrights, FAQ

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Authors' Instructions : Last Update 26.05.2012, 13:16 o'clock