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Poster / Demo submission

DILS 2007 also invite submission for posters, system demos or poster/demo combinations (ASCII abstract up to 400 words plus title, authors and affiliation). Posters and demos will be presented in the poster/demo session at the conference. The organizers will provide a basic setup (easels, tables) as well as Internet connections but no computers or projectors. The poster/demo abstracts are not part of the proceedings but will be published on the DILS web site.

Please email poster abstracts directly to dils07 AT seas DOT upenn DOT edu. 

Deadline for Posters/demo abstract: May 21st, 2007.

Camera-ready Instructions for accepted papers

  • Camera-ready submission deadline is April 12th
  • Page limits are:
    • Research paper: 16 pages
    • Systems / Experience paper: 10 pages
  • Final papers are submitted to our Microsoft Research Conference Management site

Please find detailed instructions for preparing the camera-ready copy of your paper in Springer's
LNCS Author and Volume Editor Instructions. Your final manuscript, including the bibliography, appendices, etc. must be in accordance with the formatting instructions. Especially note that the pages should not be numbered.

To produce the workshop proceedings, we need the following items:

  1. The PDF version of your camera-ready manuscript 
  2. The complete set of source files, such as Latex (and figures), or Word/RTF document of your camera-ready manuscript into a single zip-file

These two files (one pdf and one zip) have to be submitted to our Microsoft Research Conference Management site: The contact author should click on "View/Edit Camera Ready Paper Submissions" then "Edit" and follow the instructions on the CMT web site. Please name your files with your paper ID (e.g. 02.pdf and 02.zip).

  1. The completed copyright form. Please fax your signed copyright form by April 12th to (+1) 215-898-0587(attn: Sarah Cohen-Boulakia).

Note that by sending the camera-ready version of your paper to us, you confirm that you or one of your co-authors will register for the workshop by April 19th.
 

Paper submission

DILS 2007 invites two types of papers (Deadline: Feb. 15th, 2007, 9pm PST):

  • Research papers (up to 16 pages): new models, methods, or algorithms designed to solve problems relevant to the scope of DILS.
  • Systems or experience papers (up to 10 pages): implementation of systems or feedback on practice of systems able to solve problems relevant to the scope of DILS. Papers describing commercial solutions are welcome as long as sufficient detail of the problem and its technical solution are provided. 

Submissions must be clearly marked as either research or system papers. Please use an appropriate subtitle to ensure correct judgment by the DILS reviewers.

As for previous DILS conferences, accepted papers will be published by Springer in the LNBI (Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) series.

All papers must be previously unpublished and may not be under parallel review at any other journal or conference. Submissions should be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). All submissions will be handled electronically. Acceptance of each submission will be based by the expertise of at least three reviewers. Submission is electronic via the Microsoft Conference Management (CMT) site is available here.


 

Philadelphia  
June 27-29, 2007