Please follow the guidelines below when preparing the camera ready version of your paper.
Full papers are not to exceed 15 pages including all references and figures. Short papers are limited to 8 pages. All papers must be prepared by strictly following the Springer LNCS format and submitted whole package of your paper (including source files and PDF) to the conference ConfTool. To avoid typesetting issues, please use the LNCS templates and style files available from Springer. Don't alter margins or use similar other tricks (e.g., use \vspace, change font size etc) to gain more space. If you do, your paper will be returned and you need to fix these issues.
Please make sure that you follow LNCS author guidelines. Make sure you use the APPROPRIATE BIBLIOGRAPHY style. For those using latex with separate bib files, the bib style file can be downloaded from the Internet. Its name should be "splncs03.bst ". Make sure that author names and affiliations are written as required and indicated by the guidelines.
Additional pages are available at 90 Euros per page, with a limit of at most 2 additional pages per full paper and 1 page per short paper.
Download the LNCS copyright form from Springer website. Sign and scan the form. Please use "14th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2016)"
for the title of the book, and "Quan Z. Sheng, Eleni Stroulia, Samir Tata, Sami Bhiri" for the volume editors.
Prepare a zip file and include the following:
The .pdf of the camera ready version.
A folder named "source_files" that contains all relevant source files of the manuscript needed to compile and reproduce the PDF.
The signed LNCS copyright form. The copyright has to be signed by hand and scanned.
A text file named "author_index.txt". Please provide the information below:
Corresponding author name
Corresponding author email
First (given) and Last (family) names of each author. Please let us know any suffixes or complex names that do not use the Western name order, so that we can present them in the correct way.
Suggested abbreviated running head of the paper.
Submit all required files in ConfTool no later than July 24, 2016 (firm).
At least one of the authors must register for the conference (deadline July 24, 2016) and present the paper at the conference.