Paper Submissions - Guidelines for Authors

At least one author from each paper must register for the conference for the paper to be included in the proceedings and online at IEEE Xplore^®.

Note all papers must be submitted to LAPC via EDAS except Invited and Keynote papers which should be emailed to [email protected]

There are three steps to submitting a correctly formatted manuscript that will be accepted by LAPC 2009. Please follow these steps carefully:

1. Preparing the Manuscript
You can prepare your manuscript in MS Word or LaTeX but this must be converted to PDF before submitting. Please follow the instructions in this WORD TEMPLATE carefully to format your manuscript correctly. Your final document must satisfy all the stated requirements. Please respect the 4 page limit for all non-invited manuscripts. NB the LAPC 2009 template is a 2 column format.

2. Converting the Manuscript
All manuscripts must be converted to the IEEE Xplore compliant PDF format before submitting electronically. The “Simplified Requirements for Creating PDF Files” document gives an overview of these requirements. Please note, PDFs found to be non-IEEE Xplore compliant will require re-formatting by the author or may even be rejected.

You can create an IEEE Xplore compliant PDF file by using the IEEE PDF eXpress tool. Simply click on the link below, create yourself a new account and upload the manuscript for conversion. This tool also allows you to check PDF files you have created with your own PDF Writer for IEEE Xplore compatibility.

Please use lapc2009x as the conference ID

3. Submitting the Manuscript
Once the PDF file has been created successfully, please submit it electronically using EDAS. Take the following steps to ensure successful submission:

• If you do not already have an EDAS account, please create one.
• Log on and select LAPC 2007 from the conference listings. You will need to provide a title, an abstract (up to 150 words) and all author details. Please ensure all names, addresses and email details are correctly entered as this information will appear in the conference proceedings.
• Upload the PDF Manuscript. Once uploaded, you can visit your manuscript details at any time to view progress and make changes.

Paper Submission Deadline: 19th June 2009