HOW TO SUBMIT A PAPER
Submissions should be sent in postscript format to ipcopaper@cwi.nl. Please use plain postscript format. We do not accept compressed or encoded files. If electronic submission is not possible, please send 9 hard copies by airmail, postmarked on or before October 27, 2000 to:
IPCO 2001 Mrs. L. Schulze CWI P.O. Box 94079 1090 GB, Amsterdam The Netherlands.The length of an extended abstract for IPCO 2001 should be at most 10 double spaced pages, 11 pt, single column. The text area on a page should not exceed 15.5 cm by 21.5 cm (6.1 in by 8.5 in) respectively. The first page should contain the names of all authors, and the postal address and e-mail address of the corresponding author.
The correct layout of an extended abstract is obtained by setting the pointsize to 11pt, and by including the following lines in the preamble of your Latex-file:
\textwidth 15.5cm
\textheight 21.5cm
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.2}
Note that the full papers that will appear in the proceedings will have
another layout. Instructions on how to submit the proceedings version
of the paper will be announced at the beginning of 2001 on this page.By January 20, 2001, the authors will be informed about the acceptance/rejection of their paper. In case of acceptance, they will be provided with further information regarding the preparation of the final version of the paper, which is due on or before March 5, 2001.
Please notice that submission of an extended abstract constitutes a commitment of the authors that if the paper is accepted, they will provide a Proceedings version and at least one of the authors must be present at the conference to present the paper.
GUIDELINES ON PREPARING AN EXTENDED ABSTRACT
The following piece is from the article History and Scope of IPCO
by K. Aardal, R. Kannan, and W.R. Pulleyblank, published in
OPTIMA - The Newsletter of the Mathematical Programming Society
No. 43, July 1994.
"...The program committee normally consists of established researchers from a broad variety of fields. Therefore someone preparing an extended abstract can safely assume that a large portion of the committee will not be experts in the topic of the paper. These are precisely the readers to whom the abstract should be directed. Of course, correctness and newness of the claimed results is necessary for acceptance, but this alone is generally not sufficient. It is also crucial that the importance of the work be understood by the committee in general..."
The full article can be found here.