Submission Guidelines

Prospective authors are invited to submit full paper of 6 pages (Letter or A4 format) by the submission deadline. The submission of a paper implies that the paper is original and has not been submitted under review or copyright protected by the author if accepted.
Besides papers in regular sessions, papers in special sessions are also invited to provide forums for focused discussions on new topics and innovative applications of established approaches. A special session consists of at least four related papers. Proposals for special sessions including the session organizers, author names, paper titles, abstracts, and brief statements on the purposes of the sessions must be submitted to by May 1, 2006.
All papers should be submitted electronically via Online Paper Submission System . The format of the initial submissions can be PDF, MS Word, or Postscript. The file of the final accepted papers should be in either Word or Latex.
All submitted papers will be refereed by experts in the respective fields according to the criteria of originality, significance, quality, and clarity. The authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to revise their papers and take consideration of the referees' comments and suggestions, before submitting the final papers.
All accepted papers with paid registration will be included in the Proceedings of ISDA2006, to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press .

Paper Format

The paper must be prepared according to IEEE CS style format. Authors can use the style IEEE_CS_Latex.zip or the ISDA2006_word_format.doc included in 8.5x11-Formatting files.zip file together with macros and author guidelines. You can find additional information using ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/

Presentation Modes

The presentation mode of a paper can be oral or poster depending on the preference of the authors and arrangement of the organizers. The authors can indicate their preferences on oral or poster presentation when submitting the paper