Author Instructions
The conference proceedings for Robotics: Science and Systems will be published as a book by MIT Press. The final version of your paper and all other information necessary for its publication will be due on July 30, 2007. Please incorporate feedback you received at the conference into your final submission. Please read these instructions carefully to avoid delaying the publication of the proceedings.
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Update your paper in Confmaster: Upload your camera ready copy
in confmaster and also update title, abstract, and author list
of your paper in confmaster. To do so, the corresponding authors has
to select "Own Papers" and then has to click on the lens (view
details). The new window allows you to update your data.
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Title and Authors: If the title or authors for your paper
have changed since you submitted your information in January, please
email the updated information as soon as possible to
stachnis@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
using ``RSS info change [number]'' in the subject line, where [number] is your paper number as it appears in this conference booklet.
- Author Agreement Form: One author must complete and sign
the author agreement form. Please mail the
original, signed author agreement form to the following address by
July 30, 2007:
Cyrill Stachniss
Institut f. Informatik
Georges Koehler Allee, Geb. 079
D-79110 Freiburg
Germany
- Formatting: Please prepare your final submission
according to the IEEE Transactions formatting requirements. A
corresponding Latex class file is available here.
Please do not modify the formatting provided in these files. Any change to font sizes, page dimensions, line spacing, etc. will delay the publication of your paper. Please do not include any additional markings such as ``Draft'' or ``To appear in...'' on the pages. Make sure your paper does not have page numbers. Papers will be limited to 8 pages. Robotics:~Science and Systems offers no provision for accommodating papers that do not meet these requirements.
- Creating PDF files: Delays
in the production of proceedings are usually caused by the submission
of PDF files that did not embed all fonts. Please follow these
simple instructions to ensure that the PDF file you submit does not
have this problem.
Document preparation using Latex: Please create a PDF file
from your Latex source by using the following commands:
latex paper.tex
dvips paper.dvi -o paper.ps -t letter -Ppdf -G0
ps2pdf paper.ps
The arguments to the dvips command will ensure that all fonts are embedded in the PDF file produced by ps2pdf.
- Checking the PDF file: Before you submit your
file, please open it in Acrobat Reader. In the menu ``File'' under
``Document Properties'' you can find information about ``Fonts.''
Your document should only contain Type-1 fonts. If you followed the
instructions above, but your documents contains other types of
fonts, they may have been included as part of figures. Please
ensure that your submission only contains Type-1 fonts.
- Submission: Please submit your paper by July 30,
2007 using the link http://rss2007.confmaster.net. Update
also your abstract, title, and the author list in confmaster! We are
looking forward to receiving your final submission!