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Prepare 8 A4 pages camera-ready paper including title, authors and abstract. Paper formatting should follow the Springer LNCS format. You can refer to the authors instruction page for more details.
Please follow the new version of the "Authors' Instructions" (in PDF format) for the printed and the electronic volumes. (You can also download it in PS format.)
You will get the best results and your files will be easiest to handle if you use LaTeX2e for the preparation of your camera-ready manuscript together with the corresponding Springer class file llncs.cls. Only if you use LaTeX2e and llncs.cls will we be able to add hyperlinks to your manuscript in the online version. The file llncs-sample.tex is a sample input file which you may take as a source for your own input. llncs-doc.dvi and llncs-doc.ps are the documentation of the class, here you can find detailed instructions showing how the macro package works.
If you are not able to use LaTeX2e you may use LNCS old macro packages for LaTeX or for TeX.
We do not encourage the use of MS Word, particularly as the layout of the pages (the position of figures and paragraphs) can change from printout to printout. Having said this, Springer do provide the template sv-lncs.dot (for use with PC systems) or sv-lncs (for use with Macintosh systems) to help MS Word users to prepare their camera-ready manuscripts and to enable us to use their source files for the online version of the LNCS. Please read the documentation of the template sv-lncs.doc carefully (also available in PDF format), Springer also provide typeinst.doc, Springer "Authors' Instructions" as an example input. You can download all four files as a ZIP archive. With some Web browsers the templates may be destroyed during transfer. Thus it is better to download the ZIP archive.
If you are unable to use LaTeX or MS Word, you may use any other text processing system. In this case, please follow Springer "Authors' Instructions" (see above) closely in order to make the volume look as uniform as possible. Some editors and authors have prepared templates for different text processing systems. These templates are neither checked nor supported by Springer. You can find them on Springer authors' template exchange Web site.
Headings should be capitalized (i.e., nouns, verbs, and all other words except articles, prepositions, and conjunctions should be set with an initial capital) and should, with the exception of the title, be aligned to the left. Words joined by a hyphen are subject to a special rule. If the first word can stand alone, the second word should be capitalized.
Here are some examples of headings: "Criteria to Disprove Context-Freeness of Collage Languages", "On Correcting the Intrusion of Tracing Non-deterministic Programs by Software", "A User-Friendly and Extendable Data Distribution System", "Multi-flip Networks: Parallelizing GenSAT".
Please produce your figures electronically and integrate them into your text-file. For LaTeX and TeX users we recommend using the style-files psfig or epsf.