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1. Your contribution may be prepared in LaTeX or Microsoft Word Technical Instruc tions for working with Springer s style files and templates are provided in separate documents which can be found in the respective zip packages on our website No academic titles or descriptions of academic positions should be included in the addresses The affiliations should consist of the author s institution town and country 2 Preparation of Your Paper 2 1 Structuring Your Paper Affiliations The affiliated institutions are to be listed directly below the names of the authors Multiple affiliations should be marked with superscript Arabic numbers and they should each start on a new line as shown in this document In addition to the name of your affiliation we would ask you to give the town and the country in which it is situated If you prefer to include the entire postal address then please feel free to do so E mail addresses should start on a new line and should be grouped per affiliation Headings Headings should be capitalized i e nouns verbs and all other words except articles prepositions and conjunctions should be set with an initial capital and should with the exception of the title be aligned to the left Only the first two levels of section headings should be numbered as shown in Table 1 The respective font sizes are also given in Table 1 Kindly refrain from using 0 when numbering your section headings Table 12. They are short ened by us to initials surname in the running heads and take the form surname given name in the author index If you or any of your co authors have more than one family name it should be made quite clear how your name is to be displayed in the running heads and the author index Chinese authors should write their given names in front of their surnames at the tops of their papers If you only have one main name please make sure that this name is written out in full in the running heads when you check your final PDF Names and affiliations cannot be changed once a paper has been published 4 Typesetting of Your Paper at Springer Please make sure that the paper you submit is final and complete that any copyright issues have been resolved that the authors listed at the top of the chapter really are the final authors and that you have not omitted any references Following publication it is not possible to alter or withdraw your paper on SpringerLink Kindly note that we prefer the use of American English 4 1 What Will Be Done with Your Paper If the instructions have been followed closely then only very minor alterations will be made to your paper The production team at SPS checks the format of the paper and if for example vertical spacing has been inserted or removed making the paper unsightly or difficult to read then this is remedied In addition running heads final page num bers and a copyright line
3. 1 2 3 4 5 for consecutive numbers and 1 3 5 for non consecutive numbers The numbers in the bibliography section are without square brackets Please write all references using the Latin alphabet If the title of the book you are referring to is e g in Russian or Chinese then please write in Russian or in Chi nese at the end of the transcript or translation of the title In order to permit cross referencing within SpringerLink and eventually between different publishers and their online databases Springer standardizes the format of the references This feature aims to increase the visibility of publications and facilitate academic research Please base your references on the examples given in the refer ences section of these instructions References that do not adhere to this style will be reformatted at our end We would like to draw your attention to the fact that references to LNCS proceed ings papers are particularly often reformatted due to missing editor names or incom plete publisher information This adjustment may result in the final papers as pub lished by Springer having more pages than the original versions as submitted by the authors Here is an example Reference as formatted in author s original version Assemlal H E Tschumperl D Brun L Efficient Computation of PDF Based Characteris tics from Diffusion MR Signal In MICCAI Volume 5242 2008 70 78 Reference after reformatting by Springer A
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5. run in heading and not a section or subsection heading It should not be assigned a number The acknowledgements may include reference to grants or supports received in relation to the work presented in the paper 3 Additional Information Required from Authors 3 1 Copyright Form There are different copyright forms in place for the different Springer Computer Sci ence proceedings book series A prefilled copyright form is usually available from the conference website Please send your signed copyright form to your conference publi cation contact either as a scanned PDF or by fax or by courier One author may sign on behalf of all of the other authors of a particular paper In this case the author signs for and accepts responsibility for releasing this material on behalf of any and all co authors Digital signatures are not acceptable 3 2 Contact Author Information Kindly assure that when you submit the final version of your paper you also provide the name and e mail address of the contact author for your paper These details are used to compile a list of contact authors for our typesetting partners SPS in India The contact author must be available to check the paper roughly seven weeks before the start of the conference or before the book is due to leave the printing office in the case of post conference proceedings 3 3 Correct Representation of Author Names Authors names should be written out in full at the tops of the papers
6. Author Guidelines for the Preparation of Contributions to Springer Computer Science Proceedings Alfred Hofmann Ralf Gerstner Anna Kramer and Frank Holzwarth Springer Verlag Computer Science Editorial Heidelberg Germany alfred hofmann ralf gerstner anna kramer springer com Springer Verlag Technical Support Heidelberg Germany frank holzwarth springer com Abstract The abstract is a mandatory element that should summarize the con tents of the paper and should contain at least 70 and at most 150 words Ab stract and keywords are freely available in SpringerLink Keywords We would like to encourage you to list your keywords here They should be separated by middots Introduction You will find here Springer s guidelines for the preparation of proceedings papers to be published in one of the following series in printed and electronic form Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS incl its subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence LNAI and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics LNBI and LNCS Transactions Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing LNBIP Communications in Computer and Information Science CCIS Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences Social Informatics and Tele communications Engineering LNICST IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology IFIP AICT for merly known as the IFIP Series Proceedings in Information and Communication Technology PICT
7. Font sizes of headings Table captions should always be positioned above the tables Heading level Example Font size and style Title centered Lecture Notes 14 point bold 1 level heading 1 Introduction 12 point bold 2 level heading 2 1 Printing Area 10 point bold 3 level heading Run in Heading in Bold Text follows 10 point bold 4 level heading Lowest Level Heading Text follows 10 point italic Words joined by a hyphen are subject to a special rule If the first word can stand alone the second word should be capitalized Here are some examples of headings Criteria to Disprove Context Freeness of Collage Languages On Correcting the Intrusion of Tracing Non deterministic Pro grams by Software A User Friendly and Extendable Data Distribution System Multi flip Networks Parallelizing GenSAT Self determinations of Man Lemmas Propositions and Theorems The numbers accorded to lemmas proposi tions and theorems etc should appear in consecutive order starting with Lemma 1 Please do not include section counters in the numbering like Theorem 1 1 2 2 Length of Papers We only wish to publish papers of significant scientific content Very short papers of fewer than four pages will not be made available for indexing and will not be visible as individual papers on SpringerLink 2 3 Page Numbering and Running Heads There is no need to include page numbers or running heads this will be d
8. e margins Longer captions covering more than one line are justified Fig 1 and Fig 2 show examples Captions that do not constitute a full sentence do not have a period Text fragments of fewer than four lines should not appear at the tops or bottoms of pages following a table or figure In such cases it is better to set the figures right at the top or right at the bottom of the page If screenshots are necessary please make sure that the essential content is clear to the reader Remark 1 In the printed volumes illustrations are generally black and white half tones and only in exceptional cases and if the author or the conference organization is prepared to cover the extra costs involved are colored pictures accepted Colored pictures are welcome in the electronic version free of charge If you send colored figures that are to be printed in black and white please make sure that they really are also legible in black and white Some colors show up very poorly when printed in black and white 2 5 Formulas Displayed equations or formulas are centered and set on a separate line with an extra line or half line space above and below Displayed expressions should be numbered for reference The numbers should be consecutive within the contribution with num bers enclosed in parentheses and set on the right margin Please do not include section counters in the numbering X y Z 1 Equations should be punctuated in the same way as
9. erson is Mr Frank Holzwarth e mail frank holzwarth springer com For overall technical questions concerning the preparation of LNCS LNAI LNBI papers please contact Ms Anna Kramer e mail Incs springer com For the LNBIP series please contact Ms Viktoria Meyer e mail Inbip springer com For the CCIS series please contact Ms Leonie Kunz e mail ccis springer com For the LNICST series please contact Mr Peter Strasser e mail lnicst springer com For the IFIP AICT series please contact Ms Erika Siebert Cole e mail ifip springer com References Smith T F Waterman M S Identification of Common Molecular Subsequences J Mol Biol 147 195 197 1981 May P Ehrlich H C Steinke T ZIB Structure Prediction Pipeline Composing a Com plex Biological Workflow through Web Services In Nagel W E Walter W V Lehner W eds Euro Par 2006 LNCS vol 4128 pp 1148 1158 Springer Heidelberg 2006 Foster I Kesselman C The Grid Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure Mor gan Kaufmann San Francisco 1999 Czajkowski K Fitzgerald S Foster I Kesselman C Grid Information Services for Distributed Resource Sharing In 10th IEEE International Symposium on High Perfor mance Distributed Computing pp 181 184 IEEE Press New York 2001 Foster I Kesselman C Nick J Tuecke S The Physiology of the Grid an Open Grid Services Architecture for Distributed System
10. one at our end If your paper title is too long to serve as a running head it will be shortened Your suggestion as to how to shorten it would be most welcome 2 44 Figures and Tables It is essential that all illustrations are clear and legible Vector graphics rather than rasterized images should be used for diagrams and schemas whenever possible Please check that the lines in line drawings are not interrupted and have a constant width Grids and details within the figures must be clearly legible and may not be written one on top of the other Line drawings are to have a resolution of at least 800 dpi preferably 1200 dpi The lettering in figures should not use font sizes third span power fluctuation 1555 nm dB time ms Fig 1 Power distribution of channel at 1555 nm along the link of 383 km Source LNCS 5412 p 323 Intelligent and perceptual user interface e y o aN ES i Global information network Intelligent navigation and mediating SILL community 2 community 1 Fig 2 Artifacts empowered by Artificial Intelligence Source LNCS 5640 p 115 smaller than 6 pt 2mm character height Figures are to be numbered and to have a caption which should always be positioned under the figures in contrast to the caption belonging to a table which should always appear above the table Captions are set in 9 point type If they are short they are centered between th
11. ordinary text but with a small space before the end punctuation mark 2 6 Footnotes The superscript numeral used to refer to a footnote appears in the text either directly after the word to be discussed or in relation to a phrase or a sentence following the punctuation mark comma semicolon or period For remarks pertaining to the title or the authors names in the header of a paper symbols should be used instead of a number see first page of this document Please note that no footnotes may be included in the abstract The footnote numeral is set flush left and the text follows with the usual word spacing 2 7 Program Code Program listings or program commands in the text are normally set in typewriter font program Inflation Output Assuming annual inflation rates of 7 8 and LOS ces years const MaxYears 10 var Year 0 MaxYears Factorl Factor2 Factor3 Real begin Year 0 Factorl 1 0 Factor2 1 0 Factor3 1 0 WriteLn Year 7 8 10 WriteLn repeat Year Year 1 Factorl Factorl 1 07 Factor2 Factor2 1 08 Factor3 Factor3 1 10 WriteLn Year 5 Factor1 7 3 Factor2 7 3 Factor3 7 3 until Year MaxYears end Example of a computer program from Jensen K Wirth N Pascal User Manual and Report Springer New York 1991 2 8 Citations and Bibliography For citations in the text please use square brackets and consecutive numbers We would write
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13. sible and cannot be processed 5 Online Publication in SpringerLink All papers are published in our digital library www springerlink com Only subscribers to Springer s eBook packages or to the electronic book series are able to access the full text PDFs of our online publications Front and back matter as well as abstracts and references are freely available for all users 6 Checklist of Items to Be Sent to Volume Editor The final source files incl any non standard fonts A final PDF file corresponding exactly to the final source files A copyright form signed by one author on behalf of all of the authors of the paper The name and e mail address of the contact author who will check the proof of the paper A suggestion for an abbreviated running head if appropriate e Information about correct representation of authors names where necessary Appendix Springer Author Discount Authors contributing to any of Springer s computer science proceedings publications are entitled to a 33 3 discount off all Springer products when placing an order through www springer com Please go to www springer com authors booktauthors SGWID 0 154102 12 99823 0 Here you will be given instructions as to how to apply for your discount Contact Us If you have any further questions regarding the preparation of your paper then please do not hesitate to get in touch with us For all questions related to our LaTeX style files your contact p
14. ssemlal H E Tschumperl D Brun L Efficient Computation of PDF Based Characteris tics from Diffusion MR Signal In Metaxas D Axel L Fichtinger G Sz kely G eds MICCAI 2008 Part II LNCS vol 5242 pp 70 78 Springer Heidelberg 2008 One more line is needed for this reference as a result of Springer s adjustment Please make sure that all your sources are correctly listed in the reference section Do not include references to pieces of work that are not connected with your paper The references section at the end of this paper shows a sample reference list with entries for journal articles 1 an LNCS chapter 2 a book 3 proceedings without editors 4 and 5 as well as a URL 6 Please note that Springer proceedings are cited with their publication acronyms and volume numbers 2 9 Plagiarism Springer takes plagiarism seriously If an author has copied from another author or has used parts of another author s work text tables figures etc without his or her permission and a reference then the paper on SpringerLink will be given a retracted stamp and an erratum explaining the reasons for the retraction will be included In addition the volume editors and the author s academic supervisors will be informed that plagiarism has been committed Please note that a retracted paper remains visible with its retracted stamp It does not simply disappear Acknowledgements This should always be a
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