To be published in the IWQoS 2012 Conference Proceedings (as well as the ACM Portal and IEEE Xplore), an author of an accepted regular or poster paper is required to register for IWQoS at the full (member or non-member) rate and must present the paper at the conference.
Registration must be completed by April 30th, 2012. Otherwise, your paper or
poster will not be included in the final proceedings. For
authors with multiple accepted papers, one full registration
is valid for up to 2 papers. There is no one-day registration.
Note: If after reading all instructions, you still have questions, please contact iwqos12-chairs@edas.info.
1: Formatting Instructions
Please format your final paper as a PDF file in the IEEE
conference proceedings 8.5"x11" two-column format (same as the
submission format).
Regular papers can be up to 9 pages in 10pt fonts,
and poster papers can be up to 4
pages in 10pt fonts.
Please follow the formatting
instructions and templates from IEEE. Be sure to use the
template's conference mode
PLEASE ADD the following copyright notice to your
paper. It should go at the bottom of the left column, first
page only:
Make sure the copyright symbol is correct.
2: Important Deadlines
PAPER DEADLINE: Final paper is due by Apr 30, 2012. There is a very tight schedule for preparing the conference proceedings, and there will be NO time extensions given!!
COPYRIGHT DEADLINE: A signed copyright release form is also due by Apr 30, 2010.
3: PDF eXpress Plus Online File Conversion/PDF Validation
Tool
All papers will be available on the IEEE Xplore digital
library as well as the ACM digital library. For IEEE, all
papers submitted for publication must meet the IEEE standards.
Access to PDF eXpress Plus, the IEEE's online file
conversion/PDF validation tool, will assist authors in
preparing suitable electronic files of their final papers. PDF
eXpress Plus helps authors convert their papers into IEEE
Xplore-compatible PDF files (conversion function) or to check
their own PDF files for IEEE Xplore compatibility (PDF
validation function).
Important: After using PDF eXpress Plus, you will still need
to submit the IEEE Xplore-compatible PDF file of your final
paper later in this publication submission process (see STEP 6).
a) PDF eXpress Plus will be available for use on Apr 16,2012.
Go to http://www.pdf-express.org/plus
and follow the instructions.
Conference ID: iwqos12xp
b) If you would like to create your own PDF file,
please change the setting on your PDF distiller to insure your
paper meets IEEE PDF specifications. Basic PDF distiller
settings MUST be changed to:
Optimized,
Acrobat 5.0 compatibility,
ALL graphics at least 300 dpi resolution (higher if
preferred),
ALL fonts MUST be embedded and subset,
Postscript settings DO NOT override distiller settings,
Page size is 612.0 x 792.0 points
IMPORTANT: Authors must check their final PDF files before
submission to verify that all fonts have been properly
embedded and subset. Some font manufacturers now flag their
fonts to not embed. These fonts must be avoided.
c) If you would like to submit your source file to PDF
eXpress Plus for conversion and validation, PDF eXpress Plus
converts the following file types to PDF:
Postscript
Microsoft Word
Freelance
PageMaker
FrameMaker
Word Pro
WordPerfect
QuarkXpress*
Rich Text Format
(La)TeX (DVI and all support files required)*
* For documents created in formats that do not embed
source files, include all support files with the final
manuscript in a compressed archive for submission. If it is
possible to embed images in the source document, you should do
so to avoid potential issues, such as missing graphics.
4: Renaming your PDF File for Submission
The certified acceptable file you receive from PDF eXpress
will be given a filename in the form PID123456.pdf. You should
rename this exact file to conform to the following naming
convention: lastname-paperID.pdf, where lastname is the last
name of the first author, and paperID is the paper ID assigned
to the submission.
Please also name your approval email from PDF eXpress using
the convention lastname-paperID.pdf.
5: Submitting a Copyright Release Form
All authors have to submit the copyright of their papers
to IEEE in order to have their papers included in the IWQoS
program and conference proceedings. The authors must obtain
all clearances related to the publication. You can download
the copyright form from the IEEE
Copyright Form web page.
This copyright release form MUST be COMPLETED when you are
submitting your paper.
Please note that you are stating that the material in your
paper is original and you have not previously released
copyright for this paper to another party. We cannot publish
your paper without this properly completed form.
A scanned copy of the signed IEEE copyright
form should be sent by email to Jorge Granjal at jgranjal@dei.uc.pt.
STEP 6: Final Paper PDF File Submission
Submit your paper through PDF eXpress Plus and when you
are happy with the PDF file, click on the "approve for
collection" link. Rename your file as explained in Step 4.
Your paper will be collected from the PDF eXpress Plus site.