CwU Workshop - Submission of Abstracts

Submission of abstracts

A one page abstract submitted by prospective participants will be used in the selection of participants for the CwU workshop. Moreover, a set of abstracts of the workshop presentations will be prepared and made available on the Web to:

provide participants of the workshop with more information about the presentations in advance,
also make this information available electronically for anyone who requests information about the workshop.

Unfortunately, we have very limited resources assigned for preparing the set of abstracts. We, therefore, request every author to provide us with an abstract by completing the abstract form and e-mailing it to us. The abstract form can be prepared/edited by any text editor. The form is an ASCII file which has fields for the information needed to process the abstract. Forms with abstracts will be converted by a Perl script into LaTeX files (the Perl script is available for authors, who would like to generate and test the LaTeX document corresponding to the submitted abstract form). Such an approach has been used for other conferences and it has proved to be easy to use and results in uniformly processed abstracts.

The easiest way for you to get the abstract form depends on the configuration of your browser. we have therefore prepared three options for you:

In most browsers after left-clicking here the text of the abstract shows up in the browser window, and then one can select from the "File" pull-down menu the "Save as" item to transfer the abstract form file to your computer.
Alternatively, you can use one of the options usually available available by clicking the right mouse-button (e.g., to either save or send the link) to get the abstract form.
If you want to generate and process the LaTeX file from the abstract form you will prepare then you can get the Perl script (for converting the abstract form into a LaTeX file) in a similar way from this place.
You can click here, and this on most installations will result in invoking ftp for transferring a zipped file with both the abstract form and the Perl script. This file can be unpacked using either unzip on Unix or pkunzip on a PC.
Should you have problems with obtaining the abstract form via the Web, then please send us a message and we will e-mail the form to you.

The abstract form contains detailed comments (in fact comments make up about 90% of the file) that should make it easy to use with any text editor and also by authors who are unfamiliar with LaTeX.

Please use only ASCII characters when preparing your abstract, and e-mail us a clean ASCII abstract form file (that can be exported from most PC editors) with your abstract. E-mails with abstracts are processed automatically on a Unix computer, therefore please send your abstract form as a separate (containing no other information) e-mail (please send it in the body of your e-mail, not as an attachment), send the email in the text format (i.e., avoid the popular html format), and make sure that the email with your abstract is not encoded (encoding is often the default option, if the email contains non-ASCII characters, e.g., national characters in the email header or signature).

If you use a word processor (e.g., MS-Word) as a text editor, then please be careful when selecting options for saving a plain-text file. In particular avoid the Windows (default) encoding: use the US-ASCII encoding (available from the "other encoding" option), insert the CR/LF line breaks, and allow character substitutions. By following these guidelines you will avoid unnecessary work while proof-reading your abstract after it will be processed.

Thank you very much in advance for your help in preparing the abstracts and please do not hesitate to contact us, if you have any questions or doubts.
cwu09@iiasa.ac.at

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