LectureNotesinComputerScience:
AuthorsInstructionsforthePreparation
ofCameraReadyContributions
toLNCS/LNAI/LNBIProceedings
AlfredHofmann1,UrsulaBarth1,IngridBeyer1,ChristineGnther1,
FrankHolzwarth1,AnnaKramer1,andErikaSiebertCole1
1
SpringerVerlag,ComputerScienceEditorial,Tiergartenstr.17,
69121Heidelberg,Germany
{Alfred.Hofmann,Ingrid.Beyer,Christine.Guenther,Frank.Holzwarth,
Anna.Kramer,Erika.SiebertCole,LNCS}@Springer.com
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containatleast70andatmost150words.Itshouldbesetin9pointfontsize
andshouldbeinset1.0cmfromtherightandleftmargins.Thereshouldbetwo
blank(10point)linesbeforeandaftertheabstract.Thisdocumentisinthe
requiredformat.
Keywords: We would like to encourage you to list your keywords in this
section.
1Introduction
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corrected.
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2PaperPreparation
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appropriate.Pleasefillpagessothatthelengthofthetextisnolessthan180mm,if
possible.
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increaseintheoverallnumberofpages.Wewouldthereforeurgeyounottosquash
yourpaper.
Headings. Headings shouldbecapitalized (i.e.,nouns,verbs,andall otherwords
exceptarticles,prepositions,andconjunctionsshouldbesetwithaninitialcapital)
andshould,withtheexceptionofthetitle,bealignedtotheleft.Wordsjoinedbya
hyphenaresubjecttoaspecialrule.Ifthefirstwordcanstandalone,thesecondword
shouldbecapitalized.ThefontsizesaregiveninTable1.
Herearesomeexamplesofheadings:"CriteriatoDisproveContextFreenessof
Collage Languages", "On Correcting the Intrusion of Tracing Nondeterministic
ProgramsbySoftware","AUserFriendlyandExtendableDataDistributionSystem",
"MultiflipNetworks:ParallelizingGenSAT","SelfdeterminationsofMan".
Table1.Fontsizesofheadings.Tablecaptionsshouldalwaysbepositionedabovethetables.
Headinglevel Example Fontsizeandstyle
Title(centered) LectureNotes 14point,bold
1stlevelheading 1Introduction 12point,bold
2 levelheading
nd
2.1PrintingArea 10point,bold
3rdlevelheading Headings.Textfollows 10point,bold
4thlevelheading Remark.Textfollows 10point,italic
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pointtype). Figuresshouldbenumberedandshouldhaveacaptionwhichshould
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whichshouldalwaysappear abovethetable.Pleasecenterthecaptionsbetweenthe
margins and set them in 9point type (Fig.1 shows an example). The distance
between text and figure should be about 8 mm, the distance between figure and
captionabout6mm.
Toensurethatthereproductionofyourillustrationsisofareasonablequality,we
adviseagainsttheuseofshading.Thecontrastshouldbeaspronouncedaspossible.
Ifscreenshotsarenecessary,pleasemakesurethatyouarehappywiththeprint
qualitybeforeyousendthefiles.
Remark 1. In the printed volumes, illustrations are generally black and white
(halftones),andonlyinexceptionalcases,andiftheauthorispreparedtocoverthe
extracostsinvolved,arecoloredpicturesaccepted.Coloredpicturesarewelcomein
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inblackandwhite,pleasemakesurethattheyreallyarelegibleinblackandwhite.
Somecolorsshowupverypoorlywhenprintedinblackandwhite.
Fig.1.Onekernelatxs(dottedkernel)ortwokernelsatxiandxj(leftandright)leadtothe
same summed estimate at xs. This shows a figure consisting of different types of lines.
Elementsofthefiguredescribedinthecaptionshouldbesetinitalics,inparentheses,asshown
inthissamplecaption.
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lineorhalflinespaceaboveandbelow).Displayedexpressionsshouldbenumbered
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Pleasepunctuateadisplayedequationinthesamewayasordinarytextbutwitha
smallspacebeforetheendpunctuation.
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2.4Citations
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shouldbesetinsmallprintandplacedattheendofyourcontribution,infrontofthe
appendix,ifoneexists.Pleasedonotinsertapagebreakbeforethelistofreferencesif
thepageisnotcompletelyfilled.Anexampleisgivenattheendofthisinformation
sheet.Forcitationsinthetextpleaseusesquarebracketsandconsecutivenumbers:
[1],[2],[3],etc.
2.5PageNumberingandRunningHeads
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runninghead,itwillbeshortened.Yoursuggestionastohowtoshortenitwouldbe
mostwelcome.
1 Thefootnotenumeralissetflushleftandthetextfollowswiththeusualwordspacing.
3LNCSOnline
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abstracts.Iftheytrytogobeyondthispoint,theyareautomaticallyasked,whether
theywouldliketoorderthepdf,andaregiveninstructionsastohowtodoso.
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