SUBMISSIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS

IISWC-2016 submission site: http://pepper.cs.columbia.edu/iiswc2016

Prospective authors must submit papers electronically by the submission deadline via the conference submission web site. Please make sure your submission satisfies ALL of the following requirements:

• The submission needs to be in 2-column IEEE Proceedings style format and may not exceed 10 pages including figures, tables, references, and appendices. The program committee will reject papers that exceed the length requirement or are submitted late. Accepted papers will be published as an IEEE Proceedings.

• The text font sizes should be no smaller than 10pt with single spacing.

• The submission must be formatted for black-and-white printers. Please make sure your figures are readable when printed in black-and-white.

• The submission needs to be in PDF format that should be readable with Adobe Acrobat Reader.  

• Double-blind review: Paper submission is double-blind to reduce the reviewers’ bias against authors or institutions. Thus, the submissions cannot include author names or institutions. Common sense and careful writing should be used to preserve anonymity without detracting from the submission. We recognize that closely building on your own prior work may indirectly reveal your identity. Please reference your own previous work in third person rather than using first person. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer unable to grasp the context. Instead, if you are extending your own work, you need to reference and discuss the past work in third person, as if you were extending someone else's research. We realize in doing this that for some papers it could still be obvious who the authors are. In this case, the submission will not be penalized as long as a concerted effort was made to reference and describe the relationship to the prior work as if you were extending someone else's research.

• The submission must describe unpublished work that is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere (including journals and formal proceedings of conferences and workshops). See the “IEEE guidelines on multiple submission and prior publication” for more details http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/rights/Multi_Sub_Guidelines_Intro.html

• You will not be allowed to submit a full paper before submitting an abstract by the abstract deadline.

• Please number the pages of your submission.