1. How to format the paper?
2. About Short paper.
All short papers
must be formatted in LNEMS format and no longer than 4 pages.
All short papers will be included in the workshop proceeding.
3. About Indexing.
Springer
will submit the proceeding in CCIS and LNEMS for indexing to ISI
Thomson's Scientific and Technical Proceedings (ISTP). CCIS
and LNEMS is
no longer indexed in ISI Thomson's Science Citation Index (SCI),
a journal index.
4. Copyright/Registration form.
5. Registration Fee for all schedules of Jiuzhaigou/Emei.
The conference organizers will provide the same invoice as the
invoice of the registration fee for Chengdu and the registration
fee will be noted as "Conference Registration Fee".
6. About Special Issues in International Journals.
All people
who want to submit a paper to each of the MCDM special issues
must attend and present the paper before they can formally
submit the full-size paper after the conference. The
registration is a based requirement of the journal submission. After the
conference, participants of the conference will be invited to submit the extended version
of their paper for further review in special issues of
Journal of Multi Criteria Decision
Analysis
,
Decision Support Systems
(SCI-indexed),
Annals of Operations Research (SCI-indexed),
International Journal of Information Technology and
Decision Making
(SCI-indexed), and
Information
Sciences (SCI-indexed).
7. Details of different schedules of Jiuzhaigou/Emei.
Please
refer to
Details-Jiuzhaigou-Emei.doc for details of different
schedule options. Please contact the Mr Jiangling Zhu at
marchtravel2003@hotmail.com for any questions/concerns related
JiuZhaiGou/EMei.
8. Workshop Proceeding to be published in CCIS instead of
LNEMS.
Springer
offered to publish the MCDM workshop proceedings in the
Communications in Computer and Information Science series.
Please find details about CCIS here:
http://www.springer.com/series/7899. CCIS is the “sister
series” of the LNCS. The proceedings volume will be submitted to
ISI for indexing to ISI
Thomson's Scientific and Technical Proceedings (ISTP). With
the publication in this series , Springer can guarantee the
delivery of workshop proceeding before the conference and there
would also be the possibility to order the CD proceeding and/or
the book proceeding.
9. Abstract submission to main conference.
Electronic submission of extended abstract for no more than 2
pages (in MS Word or LaTex format) to mcdm2009@yahoo.com is
strongly preferred.
Abstract Example
10. When will we be back from Jiuzhaigou/Mt. Emei?
The conference closes in late afternoon of June 26th. All
participants to either Jiuzhaigou or Mt. Emei should be returned
to Chengdu in the evening of June 26. Please book your returning
ticket from Chengdu in afternoon of June 27 in case there is
flight or bus delay from Jiuzhaigou or Mt. Emei on June 26. The
national and international airports in Chengdu are at the same
location.
11. Will there be beamers/ overhead projectors available for
the presentations?
Yes, we have computer and projector in each conference room.
12. Will there be a bus shuttle from the airport to the
hotel?
No. However, we will have volunteers at Chengdu Airport on June 20 and 21 to help you for transportation to the hotel.
13. What is the policy of refund?
According to the Chinese bank policy, any refund will be charged 20% handling fee of the
total payment.
14. How to take a taxi to the hotel?
Please show this information to the taxi driver.
15. Are there any Executive Committee, Business Meeting, and Awards Ceremony in the conference?
Yes, we will host an Executive Committee, a Business Meeting, and an Awards Ceremony during the conference time.
