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Submissions of Contributed talks
Papers should be submitted electronically by
January
15, 2005, through the submission form.
People having problems with the form may submit by email sending a
message with the files of the submission to the address mega2005@posso.dm.unipi.it
Authors who have problems with electronic submissions should contact
the address mega2005@posso.dm.unipi.it
by e-mail or the address given at the end of the announcement by
regular mail.
The submissions should contain recent original research relevant to the
themes of the conference, and should consist of a paper and an abstract
of two to four pages. The paper can be either a full paper with
complete proofs or an extended abstract of at least 4 pages containing
full results, an outline of the proofs and all of the main ideas. In
this case, the submission of the abstract of 2 pages is not necessary.
There is no upper limit. The paper and the abstract should be in
English.
The abstract will be used to organize the refereeing, and should give
sufficient details to understand the significance of the contribution
and address the paper to a proper referee. A bad abstract might result
in a wrong choice, and cause the rejection of an otherwise acceptable
contribution.
Both the paper and the abstract should be either in postscript or in
pdf format.
Already published papers or papers submitted elsewhere might be
acceptable but this fact should be stated and a motivation given in the
abstract. The acceptance of an already published paper depends on the
special significance and on the research perspectives opened by the
paper.
On the occasion of the Mega 2005 Conference there will be a special
issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation. Even more so than for
former Mega conferences, the special issue should be seen as a
collection of refereed journal papers rather than as the proceedings of
the conference. In particular, papers submitted to journals elsewhere can be presented at the
Mega
2005 conference, and papers presented at
the conference need not appear in the special issue of JSC.
Short communications
As an addition to the conference program, there will be a few
tutorials and short communications sessions. The tutorials will be
organized directly, and announced later.
The short communications will be accepted on the basis of an abstract
or of a full paper, to be submitted before the conference. The
submissions will not be refereed, but only checked for coherence with
the conference topics and selected by the conference committee on the
basis of the interest of the subject. A short communication may contain
complete results or announcements of ongoing research, or results of
significant computations and applications.
A first selection of contributions arrived before March 1st will be
made
in time to allow the proponents to register early in case of
acceptance. Additional talks might be added later, or even at the
conference, if there will be time left.
Software Presentations
In the context of MEGA2005, a software presentation is a presentation
of a program or package, not of specialized procedures or algorithms,
(that should be configured as a full contributions or a short
communication.)
Each submission should not exceed 4 pages and consist of a description
of the contents of the presentation, not a description of the package
itself.
Software presentations might be suitable of inclusion in the conference
material, in particular in the preliminary issue of AJCA. For this a
separate submission will be necessary.
AJCA
Active Journal
for
Computer Algebra
Some of the conference organizers are currently planning an electronic
"active" journal, i.e. a new combination of papers and software that
will allow the concurrent publication of both and the execution of the
software by the user on his own computer, possibly with his own data.
See the AJCA
Proposal.
We plan to have a preliminary test issue in the conference material
distribution. Material unrelated to the conference, if significant for
the AJCA, will be included too. Material submitted to the conference,
if suitable for inclusion in the AJCA, will be invited to submit.
The papers in this preliminary number will not be refereed for
mathematical content, but only for conformity to the spirit of the
AJCA; in particular, they should allow execution of software from
inside of the paper. New active versions of already published papers
are especially suitable for inclusion, if allowed by the original
copyright.
Further information on the preliminary issue and submissions can be
made
taking contact with mega2005@posso.dm.unipi.it;
please specify AJCA in
the subject line. Since this is ongoing research, the format of the
submission is a moving target, but basically we expect to define a
LaTeX style that allows displaying and executing the code through
hyper links and special commands. |
