Best Paper
Each year the CASCON Program Committee chooses the Best Paper from those submitted to receive an award. Papers are nominated by members of the program committee and the final decisions are made by an awards subcommittee formed by the program chairs. All papers are eligible to be nominated for Best Paper, and all authors of the best paper award receive a prize.
Best Student Paper Awards
Each year the CASCON Program Committee chooses the Best Student paper to receive an award. Only student papers are eligible to be nominated for Best Student Paper. Student papers can have multiple authors (students and non-students) as long as the work (research and/or experience) that the paper reports was done by the student(s), the paper is primarily authored by the student(s), and the student(s) are listed as first author(s). Only the student author(s) of the Best Student Paper award receive a prize. The student author(s) must have been students at the time the work was carried out.
Information for IBM authors
Before material is submitted outside IBM, it must receive the approval of the author's manager and also of the IP Law department before May 18, 2009.
Copyright Permission Form
Authors of all accepted papers must sign the following Permission form:
Paper formats and templates
CASCON 2009 document templates are the same as in previous years.
Submissions to CASCON must be in must be either Adobe PostScript (PS) or PDF format. To be included in the hard-copy proceedings, accepted papers must conform to the following format (see sample file). We recommend that you use the SAME format for your initial submission.
- Page Size: US Letter (8.5 by 11 inch).
- Columns: 2; with 3/8 inch spacing between them
- Justification: On; with hyphenation.
- Margins
- Top-First Page: 1.5 inch
- Top-Subsequent Pages: 1 inch
- Bottom: 1.5 inch (disregarding page numbers)
- Left and Right: 1.25 inch
- Fonts
- Use serif fonts in the main text; Times or standard LaTeX fonts are recommended
- Sans serif fonts may be used in titles and headings; Helvetica is recommended
- If you use any other fonts, they should be PostScript Type 1 and you must include them in the copy you submit, including fonts used in figures.
- Font Size: 10 points (main body).
- Page Numbers: Page numbers should be omitted in the final version that will be used in the production of the hard-copy proceedings. Page numbers should be included in the initial draft and the CD-ROM copy.
- © Copyright Notice: Insert at bottom of left column on first page. See sample file for the specifics.
- Maximum Length: 15 pages including figures, tables, and references.
- Section Numbers: Number sections as 1, 2, ... Number subsections as 1.1, 1.2, ...
- Figures and Tables: Number separately and caption simply (detail in the body): e.g., Figure 1: A dummy figure.
- Acknowledgements: May appear just before the authors' biographies.
- Biographies: A short biography of each author should be included just before the references.
- References: IEEE format is recommended: e.g., [1,2] (sequenced by author surname and publication year)[3]. See sample file.
Paper Template Files:
- Word Document Template
- PDF Document (from Word document)
- Tex Document Template (zip file)
- PDF Document (from Tex Document Template)
If your paper is accepted ...
See Camera-Ready Paper Instructions
If you encounter any problems or or have any questions, send email to cascon@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca and someone will respond to you as soon as possible.
