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Submission

Diagrams 2010 accepts submissions of:

There are also typesetting guidelines below which enforce the Springer LNCS style for the publication of proceedings.

All submissions will be administered via EasyChair software. To submit your paper you will require an EasyChair account. If you do not have an EasyChair account, instructions are provided as to how to create one on the EasyChair page for Diagrams 2010.

Long and Short Papers

All authors intending to submit a long paper or a short paper are requested to submit an abstract on or before 8 January, 2010, using the submission software. This abstract will be used to assign reviewers to your paper.

Submissions from authors who did not submit an abstract by 8 January, 2010 will still be accepted up to the final deadline (18 January, 2010), but we ask that you submit an abstract as soon as possible to help us make preliminary reviewing assignments.

Long papers should not exceed 15 pages in the LNCS format whereas short papers should not exceed 7 pages in LNCS format.

The full version of your paper should be uploaded as a single PDF on or before 18 January, 2010.

The papers should be submitted via the EasyChair page for Diagrams 2010.

Tutorial Proposals

Submission should be a one to two page proposal containing the following information:

  • Title of the tutorial.
  • Names and affiliations of the instructors.
  • Duration: Tutorials can be either two or four hours.
  • Benefits: The benefit statement should contain a summary of what skills and knowledge the attendees will gain as a result of attending this tutorial.
  • Features: Include the educational goals or major elements of the tutorial content, such as a description of the material to be covered and how the tutorial will be conducted (e.g., a schedule). In cases of multiple instructors, indicate the roles of each instructor.
  • Audience: The audience should be described in terms that include any background required to understand the tutorial. State the disciplines of attendees who would be interested in your tutorial. Note that Diagrams is an interdisciplinary conference, so material should be accessible to people from a variety of backgrounds.
  • Presentation: List the various presentation forms used in the tutorial, e.g., lecture, demo, exercise, video, group discussion, and/or case studies.
  • Instructor background: Summarize the background for each instructor, including current employment and activities, previous professional activities, and relevant publications.
  • Tutorial history: If the tutorial has been previously delivered, state where and by whom.
  • Requirements list: If you need anything other than a computer with a projector, please state your further requirements for equipment or any other support, noting whether these further requirements are essential or desirable.

The submission should conform to guidelines of other Diagrams 2010 papers: in LNCS format via EasyChair.

Posters

Submissions should be no longer than three pages, and should otherwise conform to the submission guidelines of other Diagrams 2010 papers: in LNCS format via EasyChair. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference. One of the authors will be expected to present a poster at the poster session of the conference.

Graduate Symposium Submissions

Submissions should be no longer than three pages, and should otherwise conform to the submission guidelines of other Diagrams 2010 papers: in LNCS format via EasyChair. Accepted papers will not be published in the proceedings of the conference, but will be available in printed form as informal symposium proceedings at the conference and on the conference web page.

Diagrams in Education Workshop

Interested participants must submit a 2-page abstract by the submission deadline (April 9, 2010) using the EasyChair conference system.

Guidelines for Manuscript Preparation and Submission

The proceedings containing accepted long papers, short papers and posters will be published by Springer in their LNCS series. Please use the Springer LNCS format when preparing your article: details can be found here.

For review purposes, please submit your article in pdf format. Your article should be named first-initial-and-last-name-of-first-author.pdf. For authors with multiple submissions, please use the naming convention first-initial-and-last-name-of-first-author-a.pdf, first-initial-and-last-name-of-first-author-b.pdf and so forth.

Authors of accepted articles will be required to submit all source files at the camera ready stage.