Instructions to Participants
Attending the Congress
If you want to attend the iEMSs 2008 Congress you will need to registrate for the congress. In next future, the registration process will be open. You will find useful information about registration at Registration info section. You will access the registration through the WCMT. Remember that a cheaper rate will apply for registrations before May 12th, 2008 (extended).
Contributing to the Congress
You can contribute to the Sessions track and/or Workshops track. Differences between them are described in the Structure and Organisation section.
Final accepted contributors must register for the iEMSs 2008 Congress to be able to attend the technical events. In next future, the registration process will be open. You will find useful information about registration at Registration info section. You will access the registration through the WCMT. Remember that a cheaper rate will apply for registrations before April 14th, 2008.
Sessions
Session participants should choose to what session will send their work. Afterwards, they should send first an abstract (up to two pages of plain text, 1300 words aprox., 8500 characters aprox.) by January 15, 2008 (last extension!), for acceptance. After being accepted, they should send their full papers (up to eight pages), by March 7, 2008 (hard deadline) for a peer-reviewing process managed by session organisers. See the format for abstracts and papers in Format For Contributions section. Although the recommended format for writing session abstracts is the same than for the papers who will be derived from them, have in mind that the WCMT only accept abstracts in a text window form (up to 2 pages of plain text, 8500 characters aprox., 1300 words aprox.). All accepted papers will be published in the electronic proceedings of the congress (with ISBN).
A selection of the best full papers from all the sessions will be considered to be published, after an extension and additional reviewing period, in one or more special issues of international journals.
Submission of session abstracts and session papers will be done through the Web Conference Management Tool (WCMT).
Workshops
Workshop organisers will produce, by January 15, 2008 (last extension!), a first draft of their position/discussion-paper (twent-four pages at most) on the special topic/s of the workshop. In fact, those position papers, initially would be more discussion papers in progress than completed position papers. Workshops’ position-papers are reviewed in order to make appropriate comments and suggestions by the scientific committee of the congress. Position papers will be available on-line by February 1st, 2008 in advance to let workshop participants to react on the main ideas behind workshop’s theme/s.
Workshop participants should send their abstracts (three pages at most) by March 21, 2008 (hard deadline), for peer-reviewing process managed by workshop organisers. See the format for abstracts and position-papers in Format For Contributions section. All position-papers and accepted workshop participant abstracts will be published in the electronic proceedings of the congress (with ISBN).
Final outcome of the workshop will be an improved version of the position-paper reflecting the conclusions of the discussion. This improved version will include as co-authors the active participants in the workshop.
Updated position papers incorporating the output discussions of the workshops will be considered to be published, after an extension and additional reviewing period, in one or more special issues of international journals.
Submission of the Workshop position-paper and Workshop abstracts, as well as the general discussion generated by the workshop participants will be done through the Workshops Discussion Space (WDS).