The CwU organizers are pleased to announce that we have finally got an agreement with the Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, to publish an edited volume of selected papers presented at the CwU workshop. All authors of presentations are invited to submit a paper to this volume. All papers will be peer-reviewed and if further corrections are required the contribution will be returned for improvement prior to acceptance.

Scope of the contributions to the Proceedings

While preparing your paper please consider that CwU is not a typical disciplinary conference. The main aim of the workshop is to provide researchers and practitioners from different areas with an interdisciplinary forum for discussing various ways to deal with uncertainties in different areas, including Environmental and Social Sciences, Economics, Policy-Making, Management, and Engineering. Presentations and papers should therefore be prepared for an interdisciplinary audience, and should address at least one of the following issues:

Therefore, all papers submitted to the Proceedings should be prepared accordingly, and contribute to achieving the aim of the workshop. Thus, we ask the researchers with mathematical background to present concepts and their illustrations in a way that the main ideas can be understood by readers with different backgrounds. Ideally, such concepts would help in the understanding of various ways of effective "Coping with Uncertainty" in different areas of applications.

Technical requirements

Please note that the editors have no capacity for editing the papers, therefore we can accept ONLY papers which will conform to the following guidelines. Please observe the following requirements to help us in managing the input from all authors:
  1. Papers have to be prepared in LaTeX using the style defined in the author package available here. The original Springer guidelines for preparing multi-author books are available here.
  2. The maximum length (after processing with the provided LaTeX2e style) is 20 pages; the suggested length is about 15 pages. The length reduction may be required during the referee process.
  3. In addition to the LaTeX packages used in the author's template one can use
    \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsfonts}
    Use of any other packages (if highly desired) must be agreed with the editors. Please do NOT use any own LaTeX definitions or abbreviations: according to our experience such definitions/abbreviations (and many of the packages) may cause difficulties in processing chapters prepared by many authors, and therefore should be avoided.
  4. Each author has received from the editors two strings/identifiers that should be used for naming files and labels:
  5. The revised contributions should be delivered in one zipped file (named paper_id.zip) composed of: The zip file should preferably be ftp'ed (info on ftp is available href="http://www.iiasa.ac.at/~marek/docs/ftp.html">here). Should you have problems with using ftp then email the file to the address indicated in the acceptance email.
  6. To ensure proper cross-references to figures, tables, citations, sections, etc., it is necessary to always use pairs of either \label and \ref, or \bibitem and \cite LaTeX commands (one can also use the \pageref to refer to a specific place, if desired). For example, instead of shown in Fig.~1 use shown in Fig.~\ref{xx:fig1}, where the argument of the \ref command corresponds to the \label defined with the corresponding figure.
  7. All labels should contain the prefix label_id sent to you. E.g., if the label assigned to you is mm:, then use \label{mm:sec_model} (for referring to a section), or \label{mm:fig_schema} for a figure, or \bibitem{mm:smith85} for references, etc. In other words the first three characters of any label in your chapter are defined by the editors, and therefore make labels unique within the book provided each author will use unique (within his/her chapter) remaining part of the label.
  8. Figures, if any, must be prepared in the EPS format, should be readable in black/white printing, and be included using the graphicx package. More detailed guidelines for preparing figures can be found at the Springer website.
    Figures should be included using the command:
    \begin{figure}[t]
    \includegraphics[scale=.45]{paper_id/file_name.eps} % paper_id from the editors, scaling factor and file_name set by you
    \caption{caption text here}
    \label{label_id:xx} % label_id from the editors, xx your unique label
    \end{figure}
    Please use possibly short strings as file_name (the string should be composed of only letters, and optionally: digits and the _ character).
    Note: the \sidecaption[t] command (adviced in the original guidelines) should not be used (we had to change this to achieve consistency across all chapters).
  9. The bibliography must be produced according to the instructions included in the author's package, either by using BibTeX or by editing data with references. BibTeX users should select one of the bibliography styles recommended by Springer (preferably spmpsci.bst available in the author package, see the link above). Should you prefer to manage your bibliography manually, then please make sure that the formatting of your references corresponds to this style.

Important dates

Contacts with the editors of the proceedings

Information about the published book

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