Instructions for Authors.

The following guidelines are provided to assist you in formatting a consistent page style, which will help you in producing a camera-ready manuscript of your paper in case of acceptance.

Layout and Length

Submissions should include the title, authors' names, postal and email addresses, and a 200-word summary of the paper suitable for the conference program. They should be no longer than 10 pages. Your paper should include a clear definition of the theoretical model used and a clear description of the results, as well as a discussion of their significance, including comparison to other work. Submit papers electronically in pdf or doc format (or compressed form zip, rar). While it is not expected that all full proofs can be included in the paper, authors should strive to at least present partial proofs which will enable the reviewers to understand the main ideas and methods used. The paper should also attempt to be as self-contained as possible. Manuscripts should be two columns per page.

Text, Type area (Margins) and Page Numbers

Paper size should be A4 size, inclusive of running heads and folios (page numbers). If folios not included, please leave appropriate space to strip in. This is a maximum. No text or figures should fall out of this text page area. All text should be fully justified. Margins for this type area: top 3 cm, bottom 3 cm, left 2.5 cm, right 2.5 cm, header/footer 3 cm (header/footer margin is from edge of page). Spacing between columns is 0.75 cm.

Title of Paper

• Title: CENTERED ON THE PAGE, BOLD CAPITAL LETTERS. 15-point type (Times Roman).
• Paper author(s): Upper/lower case, 11-point type (Times Roman) including all authors names with first names first. centered under the title
• Affiliation(s): Upper/lower case, italic, 9 point type (Times Roman) including where appropriate, full street and e-mail addresses.
• Leave 3 line spaces between title and author.
• Leave 5 line spaces between author/affiliation and start of text of paper.
• Your paper should begin with an abstract, keywords and a brief introduction.

Text

Start the text about three lines below the keyword information. Text type should be 11 point Times Roman. Text should be single-spaced. First line of all paragraphs should be indented. It is not necessary to insert line breaks between paragraphs.

Subheads

Levels of subheads should be easily distinguishable from each other without the use of numbers. There should be two line spaces before each subhead and one line space after each subhead.

Figures and Tables

Figures and tables may appear printed directly in the text. Figure should appear soon after the citation in the text. Legends/Captions for figures Text type should be 9 point Times Roman italic (e.g. Figure 1. Caption). A caption should be provided for each figure. The legend should be typed into the manuscript, directly beneath the figure. Legends are to be listed in numerical order, labeled as “Figure 1”, “Figure 2”, etc.

Indent tables slightly from the left margin, unless it is necessary to use the full width of the page. The table caption should be typed to the width of the table itself and typed above the table. Text type of table caption should be 9 point Times Roman italic (e.g. Table 1. Caption). Number the titles of the tables consecutively in the order of their first citation in the text. Be sure that each table caption is headed as “Table 1”, “Table 2”, etc.

Footnotes

Use superscripted sequential numbers, or conventional footnote symbols in the order of asterisk (*), double asterisk (**), dagger (†) and double dagger (‡). In most word processors, the latter two are combination characters.

References

References are numbered and listted in the reference section in the order that they appear in the text,, NOT in alphabetical order by author's names. When referring to a source in the text,, only the numeral enclosed in square brackets is used for identification (i.e., [1]). No reference to the author is necessary. All references are collected in a reference section at the end of the main text in the following format:

Journal Papers:

Books:

Proceedings Papers:

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