CONFERENCE REGISTRATION



All information concerning the registration procedure and costs are presented here.



COVERING THE EXPENSES FOR PAPER PUBLICATION

Do not jeopardize the publication of your work in the proceedings!
Please, read carefully the following information concerning the registration procedure that is presented in the author's kit, especially if you are the prospective presenter of an accepted paper or if you need to guarantee inclusion of your accepted paper in the proceedings. No exception is allowed.

An accepted paper will be published in the proceedings only if the registration form and the full-fee payment for one of the authors is received and correctly processed

BY 10 JUNE 2004 - no exceptions.

Only member or non-member fees are allowed to cover the publication of an accepted paper. Student registration fees cannot be used to guarantee the publication of an accepted paper. If the author registering to cover the paper publication is a student, he has to pay the appropriate member or non-member fee. Members to whom the society bylaws grant special discounts (e.g., Life members of the IEEE) cannot use the discounted rates to cover the publication of an accepted paper: they have to pay the member fee.

One author registration will cover the publication expenses of only ONE accepted paper: for each additional accepted paper associated to the same registration, a 50 US$ printing contribution will be charged.

In the case no registration has been received and correctly processed to cover the paper publication, the conference organizers will contact the authors before the paper is removed from the proceedings.

To cover the registration expenses, authors must use the registration form available in the author's kit.



SERVICES AND FEES

The registration fees are as follows and must be paid in US dollars:

Till 10 June 2004
Advance Registration
From 11 June 2004
Late and On-Site Registration
CONFERENCE - MEMBER 300 375
CONFERENCE - NON-MEMBER 375 470
CONFERENCE - STUDENT, LIFE-MEMBER 200 250

To qualify for member rates, the membership number must be provided in the registration form. No exception.

To qualify for student rates, a copy of the student identification card or an equivalent declaration signed by the institution must be provided with the registration form. No exception.

Member and non-member conference registration fees include entrance to all sessions, one copy of the CD-ROM proceedings, coffee breaks, Thursday and Friday lunches, one banquet.

Student and IEEE Life Member registration includes one copy of the CD-ROM proceedings, entrance to all sessions and coffee breaks.



REFUND POLICY

Lunch and banquet tickets will not be refunded after 9 July 2004.
Conference registration will not be refunded if it is required to cover the publication expenses of an accepted paper.



REGISTRATION AND PURCHASE

To register and cover the publication erxpenses, authors must use the form available in the author's kit.

All other attendees can register on-line. Fill in ALL information (INCLUDING all payment information) and pay the due registration fee.

Credit card is the preferred method of payment. For payment by bank transfer, you must add the US$ 25 processing fee charged by all banks. If you prefer not to provide your credit card information thourgh the on-line secure connection, you can fill in the form with all data (except the credit card information), print and fax it to the conference secretariat.

DO NOT send your registration form by mail, AND by fax, AND by email.
Registrations that have not been sent to the conference secretariat will not be considered.



REGISTRATION CONFIRMATION

No registration confirmation will be sent to the registrants before the conference. If your registration has any problem, you will be contacted directly by the CIMSA Conference Secretariat.

For your convenience, the list of registrations received and processed by the CIMSA Conference Secretariat is shown here.

The above list will be updated periodically. Check the date of the last update before contacting the CIMSA Conference Secretariat and wait for at least 4 working days after your request to allow for its processing.




PAPER STATUS

For your convenience, the status of the publication material for each accepted paper (final manuscript, copyright, covering registration, registration payment) received and processed by the CIMSA Conference Secretariat is shown here.

The above list will be updated periodically. Check the date of the last update before contacting the CIMSA Conference Secretariat and wait for a few working days after your request to allow for its processing.



REGISTRATION PROBLEMS AND FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information concerning your registration, please, contact only the CIMSA Conference Registration by phone at +1 (310) 446-8280, by fax at +1 (310) 446-8390, or by email at lee.myers@ieee.org

We would like to remind you that the other organizers have absolutely no information about your registration: therefore, we warmly recommend that you do not waste your time in contacting them.