CATS 2008
Computing: The Australasian Theory Symposium

University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

January 22-25, 2008

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Dates and Deadlines

Submitting an abstract

To be made electronically via http://www.easychair.org/CATS2008/.  The submission server is now open.  Do NOT upload any files in this version.

(1) Enter your "Address for Correspondence" at the top of the submission page.

(2) Enter all details for the first author, second author, third author, etc... (First name, Surname, Email, Country, ...).  Check the "Corresponding Author" box for one of the authors.

(3) Copy and paste your title and abstract into the boxes provided.   Keep these anonymous.   Do NOT include any info here that will identify you.

(4) Enter keywords into the "Keywords" boxes.

(5) Be sure to check the "Abstract Only" box at the bottom of the submission page.

(6) Click on the "Submit Paper" button.

Submitting the first version of the paper

(To submit the first version of your full paper, just do an UPDATE of your abstract submission.  No need to do a NEW submission.  Uncheck the "Abstract only" box.)

To be made electronically via http://www.easychair.org/CATS2008/.  The submission server is now open.  Refereeing is double-blind.

Instructions: Same as those for abstract submission, except

(1) Do NOT check the "Abstract only" box (of course!),

(2) In your postscript/PDF file, REMOVE all information that will identify you.  Acknowledgements and gratitude to funding agencies can be mentioned in the final camera-ready version of your paper --- no need to mention these in the version that will be refereed.

(3) Papers must be submitted in postscript or pdf format.  Please use http://crpit.com/Authors.html for formatting guidelines and resources.  (See the Resources for LaTeX documents on the right side of the http://crpit.com/Authors.html page.)  Only TeX, LaTeX and their variants can be used.

Submitting the final version of the paper

To be announced.

Publication Policy

Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least two referees from an international program committee.  Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings to be published by CRPIT Australia.  Papers that are presented at CATS will appear in the ACM Digital Library.  Full details about the publication policy is available at the CRPIT website (http://crpit.com/Authors.html).  Proceedings from the last three CATS symposia are available online at:   http://crpit.com/Vol65.html (2007), http://crpit.com/Vol51.html (2006), and http://crpit.com/Vol41.html (2005).

Proceedings of CATS 2008 will be published as Volume 77, Theory of Computing 2008.  See the Upcoming Volumes page at CRPIT.

Prizes for Student Papers

There will be a prize for the best student paper.  Papers are counted as student papers if the major contribution is due to a student author.  The student should present the paper at the conference.  Others (such as the student's supervisor) can present the paper on the student's behalf only under extreme circumstances.

Authors have to indicate to the program committee Co-Chair, that their paper is to be classified as a student paper.  It is OK to have the supervisor(s) as co-author(s).  The supervisor or the Head of Department must sign a statement to verify that the principal author is a student (this letter must be sent to one of the CATS Co-Chairs).

Provided at least five such student papers are accepted at CATS, the program committee will nominate the best one for a student paper prize.  Up to six of these prizes ($500 each) may be awarded at each ACSW.  Supervisors and students should be aware of AVCC guidelines, which are highly specific on the topic of authorship (see http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~jz/conduct.html).

Please see the ACSW 2008 website for more information. (If there is no information there, they will post it soon.)

CATS 2008 Programme Committee Co-Chairs

James Harland, RMIT University, Australia
Prabhu Manyem, University of Ballarat, Australia

Email for James Harland:  firstName.familyName at rmit.edu.au
Email for Prabhu Manyem:  p.familyName at ballarat.edu.au