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Instructions for Authors

Prospective authors should carefully read the following information before submitting.

Types of Submissions

We invite original submissions in various categories:

  • Full research papers (up to 15 pages), including solution papers, empirical studies, surveys, and comparative studies,
  • Experience reports (up to 15 pages), describing positive and negative experiences,
  • Vision papers (up to 6 pages) stating where the research in the fi eld should be heading towards,
  • Problem statements (up to 6 pages) describing open issues of pratical or theorectical nature,
  • Research previews (up to 6 pages) reporting on research results at a premature stage.
  • Posters (1 page) describing ongoing work. N.B. Posters will be published in the proceedings.

Structured Abstracts

To facilitate accurate bidding and a better understanding of the papers, each paper submitted to REFSQ 2010 is required to have a structured abstract. The imposed structure demands each abstract to have exactly 4 paragraphs with the following content:

  • Context & motivation: Situate and motivate your research.
  • Question/problem: Formulate the specific question/problem
    addressed by the paper.
  • Principal ideas/results: Summarize the ideas and results described
    in your paper. State, where appropriate, your research approach
    and methodology.
  • Contribution: State the main contribution of your paper. What’s the
    value you add (to theory, to practice, or to whatever you think that
    the paper adds value). Also state the limitations of your results.

An example showing a structured abstract is given here. In addition, of course, remember to include keywords after your abstract.

Submission Format

Submissions should be in PDF, on A4 page size and formatted in LNCS style, see Springer’s Information for LNCS Authors for details (notice that for the submission, only the instructions about the layout of the paper itself are relevant – the copyright form etc. is only needed for the camera-ready version, in case the paper gets accepted).

Submission Procedure

Information on the submission procedure will be provided shortly.