Conference Registration Information

Please note that a Regular Registration to the conference is required for each paper accepted to SPL 2008. However, it is possible for a regular registration to cover two papers with the extra paper fee.  The registration should be completed by December 26th. On the contrary, the paper will not be included in the conference proceedings.

 

Conference Registration Fees:

Category

Early Registration
(by
December 26th)

Late Registration
(after
December 26th)

Regular (1)

330 euros

390 euros

Designer Forum (2) (3)

220 euros

260 euros

 

(1) The regular registration fee includes admission to all technical sessions, coffee breaks, lunches, a copy of the conference proceedings, and one gala dinner ticket. A regular registration covers a single paper. Presenting two papers with one registration is allowed, with an extra charge of 100 euros added to the Regular fee.

(2) Designer Forum registration fee includes admission to all technical sessions, coffee breaks, lunches, a copy of the conference proceedings, and one gala dinner ticket. A Designer Forum registration covers a single paper. Presenting two papers with one registration is allowed, with an extra charge of 100 euros added to the fee.

(3) In order to encourage the participation in the Conference of people working in latinamerican universities a limited number of reduced registation fees will be financed by Nacional Agency of Cience and Technology of Argentina. This fee is not applicable for papers. Interested people can apply at: financial@splconf.org

 

Additional Items

Extra Paper

100 euros

Extra Pages (2 pages)

100 euros

Extra Gala Dinner

50 euros

Extra SPL Proceedings

40 euros

Extra Designer Forum Proceedings

20 euros

 

Registration Procedure

The following is a summary of the steps required for the final submission and registration:

Authors:

1. Update your paper addressing referee's comments and conference format.

2. Check your pdf using the IEEE PDF eXpress (see below) and forward the corresponding e-mail with the PASS status to:

Dr. Angel de Castro at financial@splconf.org

3. Upload the manuscript to OpenConf no later than December 26th 2007.

4. Fill (not neccesary for Designer Forum papers), sign, and Fax the IEEE copyright form to:

Dr. Angel de Castro: FAX NUMBER +34 91 497 4574

5. If the reviewers have made comments about the English usage, the authors should consider the revision of the paper by a native speaker. The conference organization can propose you a professional native speaker: Mr. Walter Routley, tel: +54 2293 422340 (Argentina), e-mail routley@speedy.com.ar.

For detailed information see below .

All (authors and other attendees):

6. Fill the corresponding registration form

a) Regular Late Registration Form . Payment by Credit Card

b) Designer Forum Late Registration Form . Payment by Credit Card

c) Latin American Student Late Registration Form . Payment by Credit Card

7. Fax the registration form by December 26th 2007 to

Dr. Angel de Castro: FAX NUMBER +34 91 497 4574

 

Notes

Should you have any question, please contact Dr. Angel de Castro at financial@splconf.org .

The receipt will be included in the conference bag. No receipt will be sent in advance.

Each attendee must register separately.

Registration by e-mail or phone is not accepted.

Latin American Student status will be verified when registering.

 

Terms and Conditions

Conference participation is nominal and may not be shared. Substitution of conference participation is permitted, provided the organisers have been informed by fax, mail or email before Feb 1st, 2008.

The organisers reserve the right to modify the conference programme, speakers, or timing without prior notice and cannot be held liable for any such changes.

 

Detailed Instructions

A) Requirements on and checking of submitted PDFs

A new IEEE requirement, introduced in 2005, aims to prevent printing mishaps and to ensure that your paper can be correctly imported into the IEEE Xplore database. To this end, your PDFs must follow the conventions described in

http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs/pubs/confstandards/pdfs/IEEE-PDF-SpecV32.pdf
(PDF Specification for IEEE Xplore)

When generating your final PDF, please make sure that you have used the correct settings outlined in that document. To enable you to verify the conformance of the generated file, we have obtained conference-wide access to the IEEE PDF checking service eXpress.

You can access eXpress via the URL:

http://216.228.1.34/pdfexpress/log.asp

and begin by creating a new personal account using your e-mail address, a password and the conference ID:

SPL08

Then, follow the instructions accessible using the left sidebar ('Using IEEE PDF eXpress') to proceed. In general, you will make an entry for your paper using the 'Create New Title' button, and then upload your PDF for checking. After a while, the status of your submission (visible on the starting page of your account) will change to indicate whether the file passed or whether errors were detected. In the latter case, a comprehensive report can be retrieved ('PDF Check report') that documents individual problems and also gives advice on how to resolve them ('get solutions').

If you are unable to generate a correct PDF on your own, you can also use the service in an alternate mode that accepts the source files of your submission and creates at conformant PDF itself. This capability is supported for

Microsoft Word
WordPerfect
Rich Text Format
Freelance
(La)TeX (A DVI and supported image files must be included in a compressed archive)
PageMaker (images should not be embedded, included with main file in a compressed archive)
FrameMaker
Word Pro
Quark (*.qxd and images files must be included in a compressed archive)

and described further in the item 'Preparing Source Files for Conversion to PDF' in the left side bar.

All questions with regard to eXpress must be addressed to the IEEE at

pdfsupport@ieee.org

not the SPL'08 organizers.

Further documentation on the general task of preparing quality PDFs is available on the eXpress site and under the following URLs:

http://www.siggraph.org/publications/instructions/
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/electronic.html

But remember to adhere to the SPL-specific layout and typography requirements described in

http://www.splconf.org/spl07/download/spl07.pdf

IMPORTANT: We can only accept final submissions that have passed an eXpress check without any errors. We are also not responsible for correcting errors in your submitted files. Please, do not attempt to upload PDFs into OpenConf that have not been verified using eXpress.

B) Upload of final manuscript to the OpenConf Management System

To upload your final manuscript after checking, please visit the following site:

http://splconf.org/submit/openconf.php

The deadline for submitting the final manuscript is

December 26th, 2007

 

 

Last Update 01.02.2008