Organizing Committee of SOFSEM '96
Faculty of Informatics MU
Botanická 68a
60200 BRNO
Czech Republic
tel. +42-5-41512214
fax: +42-5-41212747
Dear Sofsemist,
enclosed you will find detailed Instructions for SOFSEM Author consisting
of Organizational Guidelines and Typing Instructions. Please, read the
Instructions carefully and follow them as closely as possible to help us
prepare the uniform and high quality SOFSEM Proceedings.
Thank you.
Both the Invited Talks and Contributed Talks are to be included in the Sofsem'96 Proceedings published by SPRINGER--VERLAG in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
Post E-mailM.Bartosek - SOFSEM bartosek@ics.muni.cz UVT MU Botanicka 68a 602 00 BRNO Czech Republic
The broad scope of SOFSEM attracts primarily professionals, researchers, and advanced students who feel they should keep in their field of vision more of the enormous pasture of Informatics than their own grazing corner. At the same time, almost each member of the audience has his/her own field which he/she would like to be treated in detail.
The invited speakers are therefore facing a challenge: they are expected to be ``all things to all men'': both to provide an overview for ``informed laymen'' and to pursue the latest advances of their discipline.
One possible approach to this dilemma, which has been used repeatedly and successfully, is to start slowly, present the context in breadth and take it easy with the audience in the first half of the talk (or in the first one of two talks), and only then to take off, losing perhaps the majority of the audience, but providing substance to the expert minority. The half-and-half division is of course a rule of thumb which you are free to bend and adjust to the particular situation.
There is yet another solution, more difficult since it requires coordination of several authors of related talks. If one of them is willing to devote most of her/his talk to developing the context for the others, they may soar off faster and build on the ground she/he has prepared.
The text should always be justified to occupy the full line width, so that the right margin is not ragged. For normal text please use 10-point type size and one-line spacing. Small print (abstract and affiliation) should be set in 9-point type size. Please use italic print to emphasize words in running text; bold type in running text and underlining should be avoided.
Headings should be capitalized (i.e., nouns, verbs and all other words with at least five letters should have a capital initial) and should, with the exception of the title, be aligned to the left. The font sizes are as follows:
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Dear Sofsemist, we are looking forward to your Sofsem paper. Please
do not hesitate to contact us immediately if you have any questions or
problems in preparation your contribution.
Best wishes,