Paper Format and Submission Information for Authors

Abstracts (150-300 words, including title, the list of authors and their affiliations, keywords, and abstract) are requested in order to facilitate the review process. The submitted abstracts should have the following structure: 1. Paper title; 2. List of authors with their affiliations; 3. List of keywords; and 4. Paper abstract (plain text in ASCII, 150-300 words, no images)

Original unpublished papers of up to 10 pages (single-spaced, 10 point font, including figures, tables, and references) are invited for full paper submission. Manuscript must be written in English. Full papers should present previously-unpublished, original results that are not simultaneously submitted elsewhere. All papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the International Program Committee. Submissions are made electronically in PDF format only (no paper copy will be accepted)!

Those who plan to use LaTeX or MS-Word for compiling their manuscripts, we recommend you to use the style file or template available through the IEEE CS sites: 8.5" x 11", two-column format, 10 point font, single-spaced.

Full papers should be submitted electronically via the conference paper submission and management system as PDF files only. More submission instructions will be available on the conference website in September 2007. If you have any questions about paper submission, please contact us by e-mail at smi08@cs.sunysb.edu.

Conference Proceedings

The accepted paper contributions will be presented during the conference and will appear in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press. The proceedings will be archived in IEEE Computer Society digital libraries (CSDL).

Paper Management System

The SMI 2008 submission and review site has been set up at: https://precisionconf erence.com/~smi.
Please upload your abstracts and full papers to this online system before the SMI08 submission deadlines (November 27, 2007 Abstracts due; December 9, 2007 Full Papers due)!

Journal Publications

Selected papers of outstanding quality that have been presented at SMI'08 will be published in special issues of major journals including:  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, International Journal of Shape Modeling, Graphical Models and The Visual Computer.