Electronic Proceedings of ATCM97

• Editor : Wei-Chi Yang, Radford University
• Assistant Editors :
  • Sung-Chi Chu, Radford University
  • Gary F. FitzGerald, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
• Contributing Editors :
  • Yahya Abu Hasan, Universiti Sains Malaysia
  • Keith Geddes, University of Waterloo
  • Wenda Wu, Beijing Municipal Computing Center
  • Lu Yang, Chengdu Institute of Computer Applications
  • Stephan Ruscheweyh, Universitaet Wuerzburg
  • Tateaki Sasaki, Tsukuba University
  • Kiyoshi Shirayanagi, NTT
  • Hassan Said, USM
  • Abu Osman, UKM
  • Peng Yee Lee, NIE
  • Yang Ming Pok, Ngee Ann Poly
  • Jen-Chung Chuan, National Tsing Hua University
  • Roger Hunter, TCI
  • Zaven Karian, Denison University

Instructions For Contributors

Acknowledgements

Important Dates

Preferred Formats

LaTeX2e or HTML

Unless there is a very good case associated with a mathematical computing package whose output or formats are essential to your article, your paper should be prepared in LaTeX2e.

Further guidelines are given below.

Warning on Acceptable Formats

Even in formats which are not LaTeX2e, we require that your paper looks rather LaTeX2e-like. Thus, you should carefully read the example paper and arrange for the presentation to fit all of the requirements made there. Such contributions will only be included in an as is form. No attempt will be made by the Editors/Assistant Editors to translate such submissions in other forms.

Instructions for Electronic Submission

• STEP 1: Preparing your full paper
  • A README file
  • Abstract page
  • File containing the original of your paper
  • Software, if applicable
• STEP 2: Sending your submission to us
  • E-mail
  • FTP upload
  • Floppy disk(s)
• STEP 3: Verifying your paper has appeared correctly
  • Follow-up

Instructions for Hard Copy Submission

   Yahya Abu Hasan                         
   School of Mathematical Sciences        
   11800 Minden                          
   Universiti Sains Malaysia            
   Penang, Malaysia                    

   Wei-Chi Yang
   Department of Mathematics & Statistics
   Box 6942
   Radford University, 
   Radford, VA 24142, USA

STEP 1: Preparing your full paper electronic submission

(A) A README file

A text (ASCII) file that contains basic information about your submission. Use this template to compose the README file.

(B) Abstract page

Your abstract page can be in either one of the following three formats:

1. HTML - with minimal use of mathematical symbols. Use pseudo-TeX mathematical symbols if needed. You must follow this guideline.
2. LaTeX2e - if mathematical symbols are used. Please use the HTML guideline given above as a reference.
3. ASCII - with minimal use of mathematical symbols. Use pseudo-TeX mathematical symbols if needed. See the HTML guideline for an example.

No graphics are allowed in the abstract.

(C) File containing the original of your paper

Papers shall not exceed 15 printed A4 pages (double spaced, 12 pt) in length. (Papers contributed by Plenary & Special Session Speakers shall not exceed 20 double-spaced, 12 pt, printed A4 pages.) (Please contact the editor or any assistant editor if you have any questions about your file format.) The examples for HTML and LaTeX2e are essential reading, regardless of the format you use for your full paper.

Acceptable Formats

• LaTeX2e (PREFERRED)
  • Please do not use any proprietary macros.
  • LaTeX2e guideline can be obtained as
    • a LaTeX2e text file (UNIX) (DOS)
    • a Postscript file
    • a PDF file (you need the Adobe Acrobat Reader)

  The guideline can be used as a LaTeX2e template. It includes a description of how to include any postscript (EPS/PS) files. The two files referenced in the guideline can be retrieved from here:

  • atcm97.tex (UNIX) (DOS)
  • atcm97.bib (UNIX) (DOS)

• HTML (include pictures, if any, as gif [Graphics Interchange Format] files; do not use imagemaps or forms),
  • HTML format. A template with an example to get you started.

    Note : If you are using some of the word processing software that have an option for you to export to HTML format, please follow as close as possible the layout of the template given above.

• CAS formats where these are appropriate
  • Maple Worksheet

    Please refer to the LaTeX2e guideline for format and instructions. The example paper will describe how to include your pictures.

    Direct all questions to assistant editor, Gary F. FitzGerald, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

  • Mathematica Notebook

    Please refer to the LaTeX2e guideline for format and instructions. An example will be given later.

    Direct all questions to editor, Wei-Chi Yang, Radford University

  • Scientific WorkPlace

    Please use the example given for LaTeX2e as a reference to the format of the paper. An example will be given later.

    Direct all questions to editor Wei-Chi Yang, Radford University

• Other possible formats (Currently not supported yet; if you like to compose an example for the following formats, please contact the editor Dr. Wei-Chi Yang)
  • MathOffice (MicroSoft Word), only with permission from editors
  • Matlab Symbolic Toolbox/Notebooks, only with permission from editors
  • Mathcad. only with permission from editors
  • A PostScript file : Only in exceptional circumstances should contributors provide only postscript for their submission and only after approval by one of the Editors/Assistant Editors.

The following items may also be supplied by the contributors:

(D) Software

If in your paper you discuss a piece of software you have created, then you can include your code with your electronic submission. Separate ASCII text files are preferred to other formats. In each file, a comment as to what is following must be included at the beginning. Only provide the software in a separate file if it can be run, as is, i.e. leave "code fragments" if you have these, just in verbatim parts of your LaTeX2e document.

Examples of software formats are:

• Programs in C, Pascal, Matlab, Maple, Mathematica, etc.
  These are to be submitted as ASCII text files.
• Maple V Worksheets, Mathematica Notebooks are also acceptable, particularly if the format itself is relevant to the article.

Please contact an editor prior to submitting software, or if you have any other questions while you are preparing the electronic version(s) of your manuscript.

Texas Instruments will supply a complementary TI-graph link to ATCM97 presenters who have submitted their papers eletronically and have received the letter of acceptance (with a Paper Reference Code) and the invitation for presentation. Please contact Texas Instruments for more information (be sure to have your Reference Code ready).

Please strive to keep both your exposition, and your files, clean, clear and simple. The ATCM97 has a wider coverage of mathematics than is usual for mathematics conferences. Your exposition should take this into account. Similarly, please keep the technology clear. For example, the computer code to create an animation is much preferable to requiring an animation to go directly into the Electronic Proceedings.

Bear in mind that our limited resources make it impossible for us to

• type or scan your submission from non-electronic form,
• convert your document to a different format (e.g., from Plain TeX to LaTeX),
• verify the correctness of your document or of your software (e.g. check if the TeX document compiles properly or check the spelling in your document).

STEP 2: Sending your submission to us

Details concerning each of those modes is as follows:

(A) E-mail

Preferred.

(B) FTP upload

Recommended if you cannot submit by email but have access to ftp, and are familiar with ftp commands.

(C) Floppy disk(s)

Recommended if you cannot submit by email and are not familiar with ftp, or do not have access to it.

STEP 3: Verifying your paper has appeared correctly