AUTHOR GUIDELINES FOR ELECTRONIC ABSTRACT PREPARATION


Please read the following carefully.

Prepare the abstract of your paper as a plain ASCII text file by copying the form below (the one enclosed by the ----- CUT HERE ----- identifiers) and filling in the appropriate data, according to the instructions given below. For your convenience, an example is also attached.

The title must be capitalized as in the final version of the paper. Capitalize the first letter of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs; do not capitalize articles, coordinate conjunctions, or prepositions (unless the title begins with such a word).

The authors’ first and last names should be given completely and in the order of appearance in the final version of the paper. Separate the authors' names with a comma.
If authors belong to different institutions, after the name of each author, put the number corresponding to the affiliation given in the "Affiliation" section of the electronic abstract: the number must be in round brackets. If an author belongs to more than one institution, put all the appropriate identifying numbers in the brackets, separated by commas.

Affiliations should include, in the following order and on separate lines:
department/division
university/company
street
ZIP code
city
state
country
phone
fax
email

Keywords should identify the main topics of the paper. About 5 keywords will be appreciated.

The abstract to be submitted electronically by following these guidelines must be exactly identical to the abstract appearing in the final version of your paper.


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CONFERENCE: IMTC2002

TITLE:
put the title of your paper here.

AUTHORS:
put all authors’ names here.

AFFILIATIONS:
put the affiliation of every author here.

KEYWORDS:
put the keywords here.

ABSTRACT:
put the abstract of the final version of your paper here.

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EXAMPLE OF ELECTRONIC ABSTRACT

CONFERENCE: IMTC2002

TITLE:
A Generalized Methodology to Design and Submit Electronic Abstracts

AUTHORS:
Cesare Alippi (1,2), Vincenzo Piuri (2)

AFFILIATIONS:
(1) CESTIA, CNR
piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
phone +39-02-23993516, fax +39-02-23993411, email alippi@elet.polimi.it
(2) Dept. Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano
piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
phone +39-02-23993606, fax +39-02-23993411, email piuri@elet.polimi.it

KEYWORDS:
Electronic submission, Abstract, Address identifiers, Cross-checking, Electronic
searching

ABSTRACT:
The necessity of electronic searching in large databases of technical information and the support for dissemination of research and application results in the wider community, make it mandatory to adopt electronic techniques to extract information and feed the database.
This paper presents a general methodology on how to perform this task, thereby driving the authors crazy with a lot of additional work.