Prospective authors are invited to submit one copy of an extended summary of the work to be reported including as many details as possible. The inclusion of figures, tables and especially numerical data is strongly recommended. The top of the first page should include the name, affiliation, city and state of each author, plus the mailing address, telephone, fax number, and e-mail of the corresponding author. Abstracts may be up to 2 pages in length, and in 8.5 x 11 inch paper format (area of text and figures on each page should not exceed 16.5 x 22.85 cm). Please use 14 point bold Times New Roman font for the title and 11 or 12 point Times New Roman font for all other text. Please download the Word template form.

Abstracts should be submitted electronically in either Adobe Acrobat (.pdf format) or Microsoft Word (.doc format) by using this link no later than 12 January 2009.

PLEASE NOTE: ONLY ABSTRACTS SUBMITTED VIA THE WEBSITE WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR EVALUATION

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 23 December 2008.

Abstracts will be selected for oral or paper presentation. Authors of accepted Abstracts will have the opportunity to update their manuscripts for publication in the Conference Proceedings, which will be distributed at the meeting. To insure high quality publication, please carefully follow the format guidelines given in the AUTHOR KIT page. Authors of accepted papers will be REQUIRED to resubmit their material no later than 23 February 2009 as an IEEE Xplore compliant pdf. Details will be supplied with the acceptance notices.

Deadline for extended IEEE-compliant abstracts submission: 23 February 2009.