Recommended LaTeX style coc2000.sty
    Detailed version of the Author's guide in PDF.ZIP (48 Kb), PS.ZIP (31 Kb) or TEX format.

Camera-Ready Manuscript Submission

Authors of accepted papers should submit two camera-ready copies of their manuscripts to the Organizing Committee along with the required forms (The IEEE Copyright form, The COC 2000 Registration form.
 

Two copies of the paper must be sent by post, not fax, to the address given below. Your manuscript must be received by April 15, 2000.
The address is:

Prof. A.L. Fradkov
The Institute for Problems of Mechanical Engineering
61 Bolshoy V.O.
St.Petersburg 199178, Russia

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International participants should take into account that the state post service is very slow in Russia (e.g., it takes about 3 weeks to deliver a letter from USA to St.Petersburg), so Express mailing services are recommended.

General Specifications

Important information

    You need to submit a camera-ready manuscript using a high quality (300 dpi or more) laser printer on exact size A4 (210 mm by 297 mm) white paper, using one side of a sheet.
    Those participants who will deliver a Plenary or Semi-Plenary Lecture should submit a full-size paper of six (6) pages, four (4) pages are allowed for each Regular Paper and each Poster Paper is allotted two (2) pages in the Conference Proceedings. Each manuscript must follow this rule. Authors with multiple submissions must apply these guidelines to each manuscript separately. Up to three additional pages will be permitted for a charge of 80 US Dollars for each additional page.
    The deadline for receipt of your camera-ready manuscript by the Organizing Committee is April 15, 2000. Papers received after the deadline, or without the necessary forms, may not be included in the proceedings.
    Be sure to fill out, and send with your manuscript, the IEEE Copyright Form.
    The title and authorship of your paper will appear in the final program, in the table of contents, and author index of the proceedings as they are shown in your manuscript submitted to the Organizing Committee.
    When mailing your manuscript to the Organizing Committee, make sure to include your complete mailing address and type of your report (Plenary, Semi-Plenary, Regular or Poster) on the outside of the envelope.

Preparation of Exact Size Manuscripts

Your paper must be printed actual size (i.e., exactly how it is to appear in the proceedings) in two columns. To ensure uniformity of appearance for the proceedings, the papers should conform to the following specifications. If your paper deviates significantly from these specifications, the printer may not be able to include your paper in the proceedings. It is highly recommended to use LaTeX in preparing and formatting your manuscript.

The height of the text block should be 240 mm. The width of each column should be 80 mm. The distance between the two columns of text should be 5 mm.
Thus, the width of the text block is 165 mm. The text should be centered left-to-right on the page, i.e., left and right margins should be the same. The distance
from the bottom edge of the paper to the bottom of the last line of type on the page should be not less than 30 mm. This allows room for the printer to insert the copyright notice on the first page and page numbers.

Please, do not unsert page numbers or other information into running headers or footers. This will be done by us.

The Conference requires a font size of 10 points or greater. Some technical formatting programs print mathematical formulas in italic type, with subscripts and superscripts in a slightly smaller font size. This is acceptable. For the main body of the text the 10 point size roman font should be used.

The title should be centered across the top of the first page. The 22 point size bold font is recommended.

The authors' names and addresses should be centered below the title. The 14 point size roman font is recommended. Please include your e-mail address. For multiauthored papers names and addresses can be placed either side by side, or one under another. Please do not put addresses in footnotes.

Do not indent the initial lines of paragraphs. Leave a line clear between paragraphs.

References should be numbered consecutively throughout the paper and be listed at the end of the paper with the main heading References. When citing references in the text, type the corresponding number in square brackets, e.g [1]. References should be complete and in standard IEEE style.

Equations have to be numbered consecutively with the number in parenthesis, flush to the right.

Only simple line drawings and graphs are allowed. Halftone illustrations (pictures) and photographs are not acceptable. Do not supply Xerox copies. For the best reproduction and handling of illustrations, we prefer that they be included in your wordprocessor file or that the original be pasted. Many wordprocessors allow the insertion of figures from a drawing program or the insertion of a scanned image. For pasting of original illustrations use glue such as a glue stick. Please do not use clear tape. Do not use poor photostats, ozalids, blueprints, hectos, Xerox, etc., for the drawings, illustrations, or charts, since shades of blue, green, and brown do not photograph successfully. Figures should be inserted near their citation or at the end of the manuscript, after References. Large figures may extend over two columns if necessary. Make sure that you number and include a caption for each figure.

Footnotes should be avoided. Authors' addresses have to be placed after the authors' names below the title of the paper. Information about any financial support should be placed in the subsection Acknowledgements at the end of your paper.

Hints for LaTeX users

It is highly recommended that your manuscript is prepared using LaTeX document preparation system. LaTeX users have to employ a style file coc2000.sty. For a sample tex file using this style see file for_auth.tex.
The style coc2000.sty is a modified version of cdcartA4.sty kindly permitted for use by its author Silvano Balemi. Modification was made by Alexander Churilov. (However, all the questions concerning the style have to be sent to the Organizing Committee).

Presentation

Alloted time for oral presentations:
 

	Plenary talk	45 minutes
	Semi-Plenary talk	40 minutes
	Regular and invited presentation	20 minutes

(including 5 minutes for discussion)
No special arrangements will be made for use of special equipment (audio/video recorders, computers, etc.). If the authors intend to use such devices in the presentation they have to contact Organizing Committee.

All participants selected to make a poster presentation have to send 2 pages of their camera-ready manuscripts prepared according to the guidelines to the COC 2000 Secretariat for the inclusion into the Conference Proceedings. Additionaly the authors are responsible to prepare the poster on a vertically oriented sheet of paper of exact size 600mm by 840mm (A1 size).

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Address of the Organizing Committee:
Prof.A.L.Fradkov 
The Institute for Problems of Mechanical Engineering
61 Bolshoy, V.O. 199178, St.Petersburg, RUSSIA 
Tel: +7(812)321-4766, 
Fax: +7(812)321-4771 (no manuscripts) 
E-mail: coc2000@ccs.ipme.ru, ccs@alf.ipme.ru