Instructions for Authors

Preliminary Registration Information for budgeting purposes
The full registration for IE2005 is $495, student registration is $275, slightly higher after October 23rd. Conference registration includes access to all sessions, copy of proceedings, morning/afternoon teas, and conference dinner. The registration page will be available shortly.

Acceptance Statistics:
57 papers (35 regular and 22 short papers) were submitted to IE2005. All the papers were peer reviewed by the international program committee. 38 papers (67%) (25 regular papers (71%) and 13 short papers (59%)) were accepted for presentation at the conference.

The proceedings will still be published by CCS and authors will retain the copyright. A copy of all the papers will be available from the ACM Digital Library

Important dates:
* 23 September 2005: Final version of papers due
* 15 October 2005: An author must be registered for each paper
* After draft conference schedule is available: Confirm your presentation time

1. Revise your paper based on reviewer comments. If there are any substantial changes, please contact us at ie05[at]it.uts.edu.au

2. Make sure that the format of the your paper follows the ACM SIG Proceedings http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html with 2 important modifications
   • Authors retain copyright. No text box on first page.
   • Paper size should be set to A4 *not* letter.
   • (Optional) Categories, Subject Descriptors, General Terms can be omitted
   Full papers are maximum 8 pages, short papers are maximum 4 pages and demonstration papers are a single page. Additional pages can be purchased by contacting ie05[at]it.uts.edu.au

3. Submit the final version of your paper as PDF and in Word (or the original format of the paper such as latex, Word Perfect, FrameMaker) by 23 September 2005. We will use the PDF version for the proceedings, but need the Word version in case there are any minor formatting fixes.

4. An author must be registered for each paper by 15 October 2005. If you have multiple papers that have been accepted to IE2005, contact ie05[at]it.uts.edu.au to arrange additional payment for the second paper. If you have a paper and a demonstration, you do not need to make any additional payments.

5. You will receive an email once the draft conference schedule is available closer to the conference date. At that time you will need to contact us once again to confirm that you will be presenting your paper at your assigned time. The conference rooms are equipped with computer, data projector, white board and overhead projector for transparencies. We will try to accommodate special needs when possible.