Instructions for Authors

• Only papers prepared in PDF format will be accepted.
  • Paper Size: US Letter format (8.5" x 11").
  • Paper Length: Up to 8 pages, including figures, tables & references. At maximum, two additional pages are permitted with overlength page charge of US$100/page, to be paid during author registration.
  • Paper Formatting: double column, single spaced, 10pt font.
  • Margins: Left, Right, and Bottom: 0.75" (19mm). The top margin must be 0.75" (19 mm), except for the title page where it must be 1" (25 mm).
  • File Size Limitation: 5.0MB.
  • No page numbering on the manuscript is allowed.
  • Note: Violations of any of the above specifications may result in rejection of your paper.
• IEEE requires that the PDF files submitted for the accepted papers be 100% IEEE Xplore compliant. Please make sure that you follow the Instructions on how to produce IEEE Xplore compliant PDF files.
  • If you are a LaTeX user, use the document class file in the zip file here which also contains a sample paper. You can create a IEEE Xplore compliant PDF file using the commands:
    dvips -o mypaper.ps -G0 -tletter mypaper
    ps2pdf mypaper.ps mypaper.pdf
  • If you are a Microsoft Office user, you can download the MS Word template in a sample.  A good way to convert a Word file to PDF is to use IEEE PDF eXpress (see instructions below). Please register, log in, and upload your Word file. The website will convert it to PDF file for you and send you an email shortly with the converted PDF file in attachment.
• Please make sure that your PDF file passes the IEEE PDF eXpress compliance check. This is an IEEE requirement for the publication of the proceedings. A PDF eXpress site has been set up for WCCI 2008. To access IEEE PDF eXpress, go to:  http://216.228.1.34/pdfexpress/log.asp

  Conference ID for CEC 2008 is: cec08

  Conference ID for FUZZ-IEEE 2008 is: fuzz08

  Conference ID for IJCNN 2008 is: ijcnn08

  Further instructions can be found in the following file: IEEE PDF eXpress Instructions.

• In order for your accepted paper to be published in the conference proceedings, a signed IEEE Copyright Form must be submitted for each paper. WCCI 2008 has registered to use the IEEE electronic Copyright Form (eCF) service. A button in your author's account linking directly to a secured IEEE eCF site which allows electronic completion of the copyright agreement.  In case of any problems with eCF, please sign the completed IEEE Copyright Form here and upload it from your author's account.

• The IJCNN2008, FUZZ-IEEE2008, and CEC2008 Proceedings will be published by IEEE (IEEE Catalog Numbers: CFP08IJC, CFP09FUZ, and CFP08ICE; ISBN: 978-1-4244-1821-3, 978-1-4244-1819-0, and 978-1-4244-1823-7). All papers accepted and presented at WCCI2008 will be indexed by EI.

• For all matters related to paper format, please contact the Publications Chairs: Dr. Zeng-Guang Hou at hou@compsys.ia.ac.cn, or Dr. Nian Zhang at nian.zhang@sdsmt.edu.