Author Instructions 

 

PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

 

Your final paper is due by 16 June 2008 and must be emailed to events@plevin.com.au Papers must be no more than six A4 pages and comply with the following formatting guidelines: 

  • Download template as LaTeX 

  • Download template as Word 

  • Download template as PDF 

Final papers are to be submitted as a PDF to events@plevin.com.au

 

Please include email, telephone and fax details for the contact author in the covering correspondence.

  

IMPORTANT: 

 

The Conference proceedings will be included in the IEEE Conference Publications Program for post conference sales and made available online through IEEE PDF eXpress®, the IEEE’s premier online delivery vehicle. As such, it is important that your camera-ready paper complies with IEEE’s new submission standards for IEEE Xplore®. 

 

You can check your paper complies by following the instructions below:

 

IEEE PDF eXpress has been enabled for use by RADAR 2008 conference authors and personnel. 

Info for authors: Please go to the IEEE PDF eXpress site at http://216.228.1.34/pdfexpress/log.asp 

Click on the link "New Users - Click Here" and fill in your information. 

You will need the Conference ID which is: radar08x

 

Please read through this information carefully, and contact pdfsupport@ieee.org with any questions. Thank you for using IEEE PDF eXpress!

 

More information on IEEE’s new submission standards can be found in http://www.ieee.org/confstandards 

 

Please note, that only papers presented at the Radar 2008 Conference will be published. Publication in the IEEE Conference Publications Program is conditional upon an author attending the Conference and presenting. For an accepted paper to be published in the proceedings an IEEE copyright form must also be submitted at the time of submitting the final paper. The IEEE Copyright Form is available in various formats at IEEE Copyright Form Page or you can download the form here:

 

IEEE Copyright Form as a PDF

IEEE Copyright Form as a Word doc.

 

Presenters are required to fund their travel, accommodation and registration costs. The camera-ready paper will be published in the proceedings only if it is accompanied by a Conference registration and payment of fees for at least one of the authors on or before Monday 30 June 2008. Papers with no registered author by Tuesday 1 July 2008 will be WITHDRAWN. Please advise this office by Monday 12 May 2008 if you wish to withdraw your paper from the program.

 

In order that the review process is completed in time, no extensions will be granted for paper submissions.

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

Notification of withdrawal

12 May 2008

Camera-ready paper due

16 June 2008

Close of author and earlybird registration

30 June 2008

Conference

Tuesday 2-Friday 5 September 2008

 

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

 

The Organisers will provide laptops in each session room - there will be no provision for presenters to hook up their own laptop. (This will ensure the optimum presentation environment)

  • Your presentation must be given to the Speaker Preparation Room Technician on CD, or 3.5" Floppy Disk. Alternatively, you can bring your own laptop from which your presentation can be extracted and directly transferred to the network server. If you intend to bring your own laptop with your presentation on it, please ensure that it has either a USB or Parallel Port to assist with the transfer 

  • Supported file format is Microsoft PowerPoint XP or below, for IBM/PC compatible machines.

  • Special arrangements need to be made for Apple Mac or other specialist software support. Please advise of your special requirements by Friday 22 August 2008.

  • You will be asked to verify your presentation on a local computer.

  • The presentation will be then transferred to our network server.  The transfer might take a little while - please allow this time, plus a few more minutes to verify your presentation.

Please note:

  • The Presentation Room computer facilities are for verification - there will be no facility to make changes to presentations. 

  • Also, when saving your presentation ready for this conference, please save any non true-type fonts into the presentation. For all true-type fonts, this process is not required. Note PowerPoint will not support all types of true type fonts. If you are using an uncommon font type it is recommended you save the font style separately with the presentation and bring it to the Preparation Room. 

How do we get the presentation on-screen with you in control?: 

  • The computer in the room in which you are presenting will access the presentation.

  • This computer will be under the control a Technical Operator, who will assist you. The lectern will be equipped with a simple remote with forward and reverse buttons, which will have the same effect as the up and down arrow keys on your keyboard. The image of your presentation will be seen on the main screen and on a computer monitor at the lectern in the Ballrooms only.

  • In smaller rooms where no operator will be present, the laptop will be located next to the lectern for presenters to operate themselves. The presentation will be located on the desktop. 

Please DO NOT take your presentation disk directly to the venue room; this can severely disrupt the running of the conference. 

 

It is strongly recommended that all speakers make themselves familiar with the venue's technical facilities before their presentation. Please feel free to ask the Technical Operator to explain anything that is not clear to you. The facilities have been designed to produce minimum technical stress for you. 

 

Speaker Preparation Room Hours 

 

Tuesday 2 September 4.00pm-7.00pm

Wednesday 3 September 7.30am-5.00pm

Thursday 4 September 7.30am-5.00pm

Friday 5 September 7.30am-3.00pm

 

If at all possible, please check-in your presentation material well before your presentation.

 

POSTERS

 

Posters are to be AO portrait size e.g. 841mm wide [left to right] x 1189mm high [top to bottom] - please ensure your poster does not exceed 841mm wide. Allow plenty of time to produce your poster. Posters can be set up from 7.30am -Wednesday 3 September.