LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE

UKSIM 2005: CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SIMULATION 2005

St John’s College, Oxford, England

6 - 8 April 2005

Please review this information carefully.

Please direct enquiries and correspondence regarding papers and the proceedings to: Prof David Al-Dabass, School of Computing & Informatics, The Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, NG1 4BU. Tel: +44 115-848-6015, Fax: +44 115-848-6518, Email: david.al-dabass@ntu.ac.uk

UKSIM2005 Paper Code:

Primary Author:

Paper Title:

DUE DATE: 15th   March 2005

 Important: refer to the links at the bottom of this letter

Dear Author,

I am pleased to inform you that, based on the submitted draft, your above referenced paper has been accepted for presentation at the UKSIM 04 Conference and is to be published in the Conference Proceedings subject to review of the final paper. This is also subject to receipt of the final paper with a registration fee or an official order for at least one of the authors of each paper. Your publication must include clearance or approval by your company or government where appropriate. If the paper is not available or not approved by the due date, please discuss the possibility of inclusion as a late paper with the conference chair.

PLEASE NOTE: PAPERS CANNOT BE PUBLISHED IF PAYMENT (OR AN OFFICIAL ORDER) IS NOT RECEIVED BY THE DUE DATE. IF IN DIFFICULTY, PLEASE CONTACT THE CONFERENCE CHAIR OR PROGRAMME CHAIR IMMEDIATELY. PLEASE NOTE THAT ONE FULL REGISTRATION FEE PER PAPER PRESENTED IS REQUIRED.

Please carefully follow the instructions for preparing your paper in the following section.

PAGE LIMIT - 7 PAGES Papers should have a maximum length of 7 double column pages. Additional pages may be submitted, but there is an extra page charge of £50/page which must be added to the accompanying registration fee. We would prefer that you did not exceed the 7 page limit!

ITEMS WHICH MUST ACCOMPANY YOUR FINAL PAPER SUBMISSION

MANUSCRIPT: Electronic submission in the form a Word file is preferred; otherwise the manuscript printed on high quality bond paper.

REGISTRATION: EACH paper is to be accompanied by a PAID Author Advance Registration for at least ONE author designated to make the presentation at the conference. This is to provide early availability of funds required to cover expenditures that must be made prior to the conference. The Advanced Registration Fee is associated with the publication of the paper and is NOT refundable, but may be transferred to the designee who will present your paper at the conference.

TRANSFER OF COPYRIGHT FORM: To give permission to UKSIM to publish the material, all authors must execute the transfer of copyright to UKSIM, the United Kingdom Simulation Society. Please note that by completing and signing the form you are simply giving your permission to UKSIM to publish the material. This does not affect your intellectual property rights, which remain with the author(s). It further does not matter if the material derives from other work already published as reports, but not as published papers as originality is sought for the conference proceedings.

KEY WORDS: Please supply not more than 5 keywords to be used to create the index for the proceedings.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: A brief note for use as introductory material for your session chair at the conference.

OPTIONAL ITEM: Individual Reprint Order Form.

All material submitted should include the UKSIM Paper ID Code for easy identification. UKSIM is not responsible for correspondence or forms submitted without this code.

When writing this code on your manuscript, please do so in light pencil on the back of each sheet, also numbering your sheets on the back as 1 of 7, etc. Do NOT number the sheets on the front in any way.

Please do not send your camera ready manuscript until you have received the proper company, government or security clearance where necessary.

Thank you for your interest and cooperation. We hope that you will find your participation in the conference rewarding and professionally stimulating.

 David

 Prof. David Al-Dabass

Chair: UKSim.

 

Enclosures:

1.     Manuscript Preparation.

2.     Registration Form.

3.     Copyright Transfer Form.

4.     Author's Biography Form.

5.     Reprint Order Form.

6.     Accommodation Booking From.

 

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