Instructions for Abstracts, Oral Presentations, Posters and  Proceedings:

Participants submit only extended abstracts, up to 4 pages, to be distributed as an Abstract Book at the workshop. Participants are invited to submit an extended papers after the workshop for publication in a special issue of Biosystems (Elsevier).
This procedure allows discussions and latest results to be reflected in the publication.

Contents and abstract of previous special issues can be found at following links:

Information for referees

Instructions for submitting your paper to the Biosystems Special Issue INVITATION:
Participants and invited to submit a full paper describing and extending their contribution to the workshop for a special issue of Biosystems - Journal of Biological and Information Processing Science (Elsevier). All manuscripts will be refereed by a review board created for this purpose.
JOURNAL AIMS :
BioSystems encourages experimental, computational, and theoretical articles that link biology, evolutionary thinking, and the information processing sciences. The link areas form a circle that encompasses the fundamental nature of biological information processing, computational modeling of complex biological systems, evolutionary models of computation, the application of biological principles to the design of novel computing systems, and the use of biomolecular materials to synthesize artificial systems that capture essential principles of natural biological information processing. Its audience consists of biomathematicians, cyberneticians, mathematical modellers, zoologists, molecular and cellular biologists, biochemists, researchers in molecular and cellular evolution, pre-biotic systems, origins of life.
PRESENTATION OF THE MANUSCRIPT:
The manuscript should not exceed 8 printed journal pages. This corresponds to a main text (not including title and abstract) of less than 5000 words. This limit includes space used by figures and references. The width of a figure is one column (7.5 cm) or two columns (15.5 cm). A two column-wide figure with a height of 10 cm is equivalent to 350 words. One reference is equivalent to 21 words. Authors are requested to indicate the number of words in their text (excluding references) and the equivalent number of words used by figures.  The abstract should not exceed 200 words. A list of 3-6 keywords (or short phrases) necessary for correct indexing and subsequent retrieval must be submitted with the manuscript. Other guidelines are found on the web site of Elsevier: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/biosystems
TIMETABLE:
November 15, 2001: Submission of manuscript (3 hardcopies)
February 3, 2002: Review reports sent to authors.
March 14, 2002: Final version due (1 floppy disk + 3 hardcopies)
End of 2002: Publication
CORRESPONDENCE TO:
Dr. Guido Bugmann
School of Computing
University of Plymouth
Plymouth PL4 8AA, United Kingdom
Tel: (+44) (0)1752 23 25 66
Fax: (+44) (0)1752 23 25 40
email

Instructions for oral presentations:
Each presentation will last 30 min, including questions time.
A few weeks before the workshop you will be asked to specify your requirements for audio - video equipment.

Instructions for poster presentations:

Poster pannels will be 120 cm wide and 90 cm high.
We will provide velcro tape to attach the posters.
Presenters of posters will have the opportunity to give a brief 3 min oral presentation
before the poster session.

Posters will stay in place for 1 1/2 day.

Instructions for abstract preparation: Due before 30 June

The abstract should have a presentation similar to that in Versailles'97.
The preferred length is one page, but up to 4 pages are accepted.

Format of the title page (sample.doc, sample.pdf):
Margins 1 Inch (25mm) on all four sides.
First line: 1 empty line font Times Roman size 14
Title: All in capital letters, bold, font Times Roman, size 14, centered
Between title and authors:  1 empty line font Times Roman size 14.
Authors:  font Times Roman size 14, not bold, centered
Between authors and address: One empty line font Times Roman size 14.
Address: Font Times Roman size 10, not bold, centered.  First line: Affiliation. New line: Email. New line: web page url.
Between address and text:  2 empty lines font Times Roman size 10
Main text: Font Times Roman size 12.
Indent 1/4 Inch (8 mm).

  • Header / Page numbers: Please add a dummy centred page number, and a dummy centred header (we will edit it before printing).

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    All other pages:
    Font Times Roman size 12.
    Indent 1/4 Inch (8 mm).

    References:
    Font Times Roman size 10.

    Publication on the web:
    Abstracts will be published on the workshop web site, unless authors prefer otherwise.

    Electronic submission:
    Abstracts should be submitted in electronic form as an attachment to an email sent to: ncws2001@plymouth.ac.uk.