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The paper is limited to 5 pages in standard IEEE conference format. Manuscripts longer than 5 pages will be rejected without review. If full proofs cannot be accommodated due to space limitations, authors are encouraged to post a publicly accessible complete paper elsewhere and to provide a specific reference. Manuscripts should use font size no smaller than 10 points, and have reasonable margins on all 4 sides of the text. The top and bottom margins should be at least 0.5 inches to leave room for page numbers. All fonts should be embedded in the PDF file.

Submitted papers should be of sufficient detail to allow for review by experts in the field. Researchers working in emerging fields of information theory or on novel applications of information theory are especially encouraged to submit original findings.

Authors are encouraged to use LaTex to format their final manuscripts, using the standard IEEE conference specifications:

• IEEE Conference Paper Specifications

The paper is limited to 5 pages in standard IEEE conference format. Manuscripts longer than 5 pages will be rejected without review. If full proofs cannot be accommodated due to space limitations, authors are encouraged to post a publicly accessible complete paper elsewhere and to provide a specific reference.

Please make sure that the submitted PDF documents:

1. have no more than FIVE pages,
2. have all used fonts embedded and subset,
3. have no content written in the margins, and
4. have page numbers omitted.

• templates.zip: 2015 spars-latex-template
• siamltex.zip: 2015 spars-latex-award-template for Best Student Paper submissions

• To access the CMT system you first need to create an account here.
• If you already have an account please login here. Note: during first login you will be required to add your domains of conflict.

• To access the CMT system you first need to create an account here (link to be provided shortly).
• If you already have an account please login here (link to be provided shortly). Note: during first login you would be required to add your domains of conflict.

• templates.zip: SPARS 2015 abstract template

• siamltex.zip: SPARS 2015 template for Best Student Paper submissions

Information for Authors

If you wish to submit an abstract for a presentation (talk, poster and/or demo) with or without an extended abstract for the student paper award at SPARS 2015, then carefully read the following information.

Submission deadline is January 13, 2015, midnight Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

The one page abstract, which should include references and may include graphics, should be created using the spars-latex-template.

The six page extended abstract (for the best student paper prize) should be created using the spars-award-latex-template.

All submissions should be in PDF format and in addition please provide a brief summary (of no more than 100 words) which will be requested during the submission process.

The submissions must be submitted through the CMT conference management system - see instructions below.

Submission via CMT:

• To access the CMT system you first need to create an account here.
• If you already have an account please login here. Note: during first login you would be required to add your domains of conflict.
• Once logged in, follow instructions on CMT system to perform or edit/update submission.
• After submission you may wish to select email confirmation and review conflicts of interest.
• Then if submitting to the Best Student Paper Prize, go to the Author's Console to upload the the extended abstract as supplementary material.

The notification of acceptance to authors will be sent out by April 22, 2015.