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IEEE CEC 2009 will feature a world-class conference that aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of evolutionary computation and computational intelligence from all around the globe. Technical exchanges within the research community will encompass keynote speeches, special sessions, tutorials and workshops, panel discussions as well as poster presentations. On top of these, participants will be treated to a series of social functions, receptions and networking sessions, which will serve as a vital channel to establish new connections and foster everlasting friendship among fellow counterparts. Prospective authors are invited to contribute high-quality papers to IEEE CEC 2009.

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Instructions for Authors

  • Number of Pages: Maximum 8 pages, including figures, tables & references
    (Up to 2 additional pages will be permitted at the cost of USD150 per additional page)
  • Page Size: US Letter format (8.5" x 11")
  • Format: Double column, single spaced, 10pt font
  • Margins: Left, Right, and Bottom: 0.75" (19mm). Top: title page: 1" (25 mm), other pages: 0.75" in (19 mm)
  • Page Numbering: Off
  • File Format: PDF only
  • File Size: 4MB maximum
  • Author names and Affiliations: An open reviewing process will be used so please place authors names and affiliations on the top of the first page.
  • Abstract: It is important that the abstract is meaningful description of your paper. If your paper is accepted it will be published in the proceedings (the accompanying CD will include the complete paper).
Format

Violations of any of the above paper specifications may result in rejection of your paper.

Style Files

Please use the LaTeX or Word style files linked to below as templates for your submission.

Camera Copy Format

The camera copy file must be a IEEE Xplore compliant PDF file. Please see the Requirements for Creating PDF Documents for IEEE Xplore for help.

EPS File Font Embedding

Two methods are given below to embed fonts within an EPS file. The first converts a single file, the second, a directory of EPS files.

> eps2eps -dEmbedAllFonts=true figure_old.eps figure_new.eps

To convert a directory of EPS files, open a shell, change to the directory containing EPS files, type the following (without line breaks)

> for I in `ls *eps`; do mv $I $I.OLD; eps2eps -dEmbedAllFonts=true $I.OLD $I; done

DVI to PDF conversion

Use the commands below to convert a DVI file to a compliant PDF. Note: You may have to use ps2pdf14 instead of ps2pdf.

> dvips -Pdownload35 -G0 -tletter -o paper.ps paper.dvi
> ps2pdf -dEmbedAllFonts=true paper.ps paper.pdf 

Further help is available from Paper Plaza.

Submission

All submissions must be made through the EasyChair CEC 2009 submission system. No email submissions will be accepted.

You can submit to one of our 30 special sessions or make a general submission.

The general submissions are grouped into 7 tracks to ease the reviewing process. Please select one of these tracks, based on the main topic(s) of your paper. Please note that some topics appear in several tracks.

  1. Create an EasyChair account
  2. Submission process
    • Login
    • Select "New Submission" from menus at the top of the screen
    • Select an appropriate track/session
    • Follow on-screen instructions for completion of submission information and uploading of your paper(in pdf format).

You and your co-authors, if any, will receive an email confirming receipt of your paper. You may edit your paper information or update a new version at any time whilst submissions are still open.

If you wish to resubmit your paper please use "Submit a new version" from the right hand menu.

Further Information

For general inquiries, please contact General Chair Andy Tyrrell at amt@ohm.york.ac.uk. For program inquiries, contact Program Chair Pauline Haddow at Pauline.Haddow@idi.ntnu.no.

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