DCOSS 05 received 85 high quality submissions, of which 26 were accepted, as a result of a thorough review by the Program Committee.

The camera ready version is due April 15, 2005.

The DCOSS 05 proceedings will be published by Springer.

Please prepare your paper according to the guidelines given at:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/editors.html.

Send the files (source AND ps or pdf) to Pierre Leone, Proceedings Chair at pierre.leone@cui.unige.ch

REGULAR PAPERS

• Each regular paper will have 14 pages in the DCOSS 05 proceedings.
• You will have 25 mins of presentation time, including the time for Q&A.

SHORT PAPERS

• Each short paper will have 8 pages in the DCOSS 05 proceedings.
• You will have 15 mins of presentation time, including the time for Q&A.

INVITED POSTERS

• Each invited poster will have 2 pages in the DCOSS 05 proceedings.

CONTRIBUTED POSTERS

• Each contributed poster will have 1 page in the DCOSS 05 proceedings.

Additional pages can be purchased: for regular and short papers at most 4 extra pages, for invited posters at most 2 extra pages and for contributed posters at most 1 extra page (for 150 $ each). For buying extra pages, please visit the registration page.

The copyright forms (downloaded from the Springer site) should be completed, signed and faxed to Pierre Leone at
+ 41-22-379-7780

Please note that in order to include your camera ready paper in the DCOSS 05 proceedings, atleast one full (non-student) registration must accompany the accepted manuscript.

CONTRIBUTED POSTERS PROCEEDINGS VOLUME

The camera ready version must be in the cti-press latex style format (see ctistyle.cls, for an example see poster.tex) and have a maximum of 10 pages.

Authors must submit all required files (i.e. tex source, figures, etc.) by email to the address
dcoss05@cti.gr
in a compressed archive (.zip or .tar.gz). Name the compressed archive using the last name of one of the authors, a keyword from the title and the word "poster" seperated by underscores. For example, for a poster paper titled "A Balanced Knowledge-based Algorithm for a Scalable Proxy Toolkit" by James T. Conway, a possible filename is:

conway_balanced_poster.zip

Unless otherwise noted, the sender of the email will be considered as the contact author for all further communication required by CTI Press for the edition of the proceedings volume.