All questions related to initial and final manuscript submission should be directed to the Conference Editorial Board Chair: Professor Alessandro Astolfi a.astolfi@imperial.ac.uk

CDC 2014 Submission and Registration Policies Please note that the submission deadline is firm, there will be no extension! All papers submitted to the CDC 2014, whether for review or publication upon acceptance, must be written in English and formatted in the standard 2-column format provided on PaperPlaza. We suggest that you use Firefox or Chrome instead of Internet Explorer, to prevent copyright upload issues to IEEE. For the purpose of "review", all regular and invited papers are limited to eight (8) pages. PaperPlaza will not permit longer papers to be uploaded. The decision regarding the acceptance of each paper is at the discretion of the conference's Technical Program Committee. For "publication" in the conference proceedings, all accepted and invited papers are limited to six (6) pages. Authors may upload longer manuscript up to a maximum of eight (8) pages total. However, each page in excess of six will incur an additional charge of 175 USD. If the paper is accepted, at least one of the authors listed on the paper must attend the conference and present the paper according to the scheduling decided by the conference's Technical Program Committee. In the event that the presenter is unable to attend the conference for any reason, it is his/her responsibility to insure that the paper is presented by a qualified colleague. At least one of the authors listed on the paper must register for the CDC 2014 to upload the final manuscript. Student registrants may upload one final paper. Regular registrants may upload up to three final papers. Additional papers can be uploaded for 200 USD each. All submissions will be tested for similarity and overlap with prior published material using the iThenticate tool. Results of such overlap will be made available to the Program Committee for evaluation. In case of possible violations of the IEEE ethics rules in publishing, the case will be investigated by a committee that reports to the VP for Publications.

All papers must be submitted electronically using PaperPlaza Only PDF files will be accepted. A maximum file size of 2MB for all uploaded papers is enforced. Click here for information on creating IEEE Xplore-compatible PDFs. Page size requirement: http://css.paperplaza.net/conferences/support/page.php Caution: US Letter and margins settings below are required for the final submission.   Letter paper Paper Size (8.5x11.0)in (21.59x27.94)cm Top margin (1 st page) 1.0in 2.54cm Top margin (pages 2+) 0.75in 1.9cm Left margin 0.75in 1.9cm Right margin 0.75in 1.9cm Bottom margin 0.75in 1.9cm Sample Paper and style files or templates Note: Initial submissions may be up to 8 pages. However, for final submission, paper should be 6 pages long. Any page over 6 pages will be charged USD 200.00/page up to a maximum of two extra pages. Caution: Style files and templates provided here have been created to ensure that margin requirement is adequately met. MS WORD MS Word template: ieeeconf_letter.dot Sample Documents: sample_letter.doc LaTeX LaTeX style file: ieeeconf.cls LaTeX sample document: sample.tex REMINDER: Authors are responsible for submitting their paper in the required format. All papers that are accepted will be published as submitted by the Author. The Conference is NOT responsible for editing or correcting errors in the paper. [ Return to TOP ]

Creating IEEE Xplore-compatible PDFs: The Paperplaza CDC14 system supports compliant conversion of pdf files. Upload the pdf file of your submission and the system converts it to compliant pdf, satisfying all technical requirements regarding pdf version and font embedding. Be sure to use the Word template or LaTeX style file provided by the conference and follow the conference instructions concerning paper size, number of pages and page margins while preparing your contribution. If needed, more instructions can be found here. PDF compliance can also be tested, here before uploading. [ Return to TOP ]