Accepted Author Guidelines

IMPORTANT DATE

Notification of Paper Acceptance* Friday, July 18,2008
Confirmation due for participation in ISSM Friday, July 25, 2008
Speaker Registration Due (All speaker including interactive session required) Friday, September 12, 2008
Final paper for ISSM proceedings and CD-ROM due / PowerPoint File for CD-ROM due (PowerPoint presentation data in CD is distributed ONLY to conference participants) Friday, September 12, 2008
Copyright Form due Friday, September 12, 2008
Final PowerPoint File for Presentation due Friday, October 10, 2008

* To confirm the result of acceptance:
Visit https://www.semiconductorportal.com/issm/2008/result.cfm by using log in ID and PW which were issued upon abstract submission. The result of abstract selection will be available on July 18.

1. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of ISSM 2008 is English.
The translation service will not be provided.

2. PRESENTATION LENGTH

1) FOR ORAL SESSION AUTHORS
The total presentation length is 20 minutes including 15 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions and answers.

2) FOR INTERACTIVE POSTER SESSION AUTHORS
ISSM "Interactive Poster Session" combines the regular poster session with 3-minute presentation to the entire audience. There will be "NO" Q & A period for the 3-minute talk. The presentation material of the interactive session authors is limited to FOUR slides at maximum including one cover sheet.

3. PROGRAM SCHEDULE

The detail program schedule will be available in mid August.

4. INFORMATION CHANGE

All authors are requested to update the information on the title of presentation, speaker, and contact at the ISSM website with using your ID and password which were informed to you at your submission of abstract. In case that you miss you ID and password, contact ISSM 2008 Japan Office at issm_2008@semiconportal.com

5. FINAL PAPER DUE - Friday, September 12, 2008

Final paper word template
Both oral speaker and interactive poster speaker are requested
All papers will be published in black and white in the Conference Proceedings and full color in the CD-ROM, both of which will be available at the Symposium. Please plan to submit your final paper, formatted to IEEE specifications, by September 12. Each paper must be no longer than four pages (A4 size) and be prepared using Microsoft Word. Please have your paper proofread by several people before you submit it. Click here for a template for formatting your final paper. Once your paper is proofread and all information is correct, please upload your paper at the ISSM website with using your ID and password. In case the file is in excess of 2MB, it needs to be compressed into a ZIP file.

Author Biography - Please include a brief one-paragraph author biography at the end of the paper. This will allow the session chairs to properly introduce you, before you give your presentation.

6. POWER POINT FILE FOR DISTRIBUTION DUE (PowerPoint presentation to be included in the ISSM2008 CD-ROM. Will be distributed ONLY to participants) - Friday, September 12, 2008

Powerpoint presentation template
Both oral speakers and interactive speakers are requested
Power point presentation for distribution will be included in CD-ROM in full color with Final Paper after converting to PDF.
All speakers are requested to use the template.
For Oral speaker : maximum 10pages
For Interactive poster speaker : maximum 4pages
In case the file is in excess of 2MB, it needs to be compressed into a ZIP file.
Please use the same template as the Presentation template.

For Power Point File for Distribution,
the file does not have to be the same as the one for presentation(due:Oct 10)
you can remove the slide which contains proprietary information.

7. SPEAKER REGISTRATION DUE - Friday, September 12, 2008

Both Oral and Poster authors are required to register and are kindly asked to do so by September 12.
Registration details and link to the online registration site can be found at
- Speaker Registration
- Speaker Registration (Bank Transfer within Japan ONLY)
- Speaker-Student Registration
(You need to show your student ID at the registration counter on the spot.)

8. COPY RIGHT FORM DUE - Friday, September 12, 2008

Copyright form
Both oral speaker and interactive speaker are requested to submit
Click here to download the copyright form.
Print out Copyright form, fill in a blank, covert it into PDF file and submit through website.
In case you have any problem on file conversion, fax to +81-3560-3566.
Please return by September 12, 2008.

9. POWERPOINT PRESENTATION DUE(for Presentation) - Friday, October 10, 2008

Powerpoint presentation template
Both oral speaker and interactive speaker are requested to submit
To ensure that all presentations are visually consistent, click here for PowerPoint template. Your presentation must be received by October 10. Once it has been proofread, please upload your presentation material at the ISSM website with using your password and ID same as submission of the paper.
Our online submission system for final paper and presentation materials accepts only for the electronic data files up to 2MB each. If your final paper or presentation material size is over 2MB, please compress your file into zip file.
All speakers are requested to use the template.
For Oral speaker : maximum 10pages
For Interactive poster speaker : maximum 4pages
All Presentations need to be submitted even if the presentation draft is the same as the presentation for distribution.

10. POSTER FORMAT FOR INTERACTIVE SESSION AUTHORS

Click here for the template for poster of interactive sessions.

For further questions, please contact ISSM Japan Office at Semiconductor Portal: +81-3-3560-3565 or email issm_2008@semiconportal.com