Instructions for authors

Prospective authors should review the following information before submitting.

Structured abstracts

A novelty this year is a requirement for structured abstracts, to facilitate accurate bidding and a better understanding of the papers. The imposed structure demands each abstract to have exactly 4 paragraphs with the following content:

• Context & motivation: Situate and motivate your research.
• Question/problem: Formulate the specific question/problem
  addressed by the paper.
• Principal ideas/results: Summarize the ideas and results described
  in your paper. State, where appropriate, your research approach
  and methodology.
• Contribution: State the main contribution of your paper. What’s the
  value you add (to theory, to practice, or to whatever you think that
  the paper adds value). Also state the limitations of your results.

An example showing a structured abstract is given here. In addition, of course, remember to include keywords after your abstract.

Types of submissions

We invite original submissions in various categories:

• Full research papers (up to 15 pages), including solution papers, empirical studies, surveys, and comparative studies,
• Experience reports (up to 15 pages), describing positive and negative experiences,
• Vision papers (up to 6 pages) stating where the research in the field should be heading towards,
• Problem statements (up to 6 pages) describing open issues of pratical or theoretical nature,
• Research previews (up to 6 pages) reporting on research results at a premature stage./li>

Submission format and procedure

Submissions should be in PDF, on A4 page size and formatted in LNCS style, see Springer’s Information for LNCS Authors for details (notice that for the submission, only the instructions about the layout of the paper itself are relevant - the copyright form etc. is only needed for the camera-ready version, in case the paper gets accepted). Submission will be handled electronically through EasyChair, more details about this will follow when submission opens. Please do not submit hard copies: submitted papers will be distributed electronically to reviewers, and accepted papers will be provided electronically to discussants before the event.