Author Guidelines for the Preparation of Contributions
to WI2013
Alfred Hofmann1,*, Ralf Gerstner1, Anna Kramer1, and Frank Holzwarth2
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Springer-Verlag, Computer Science Editorial, Heidelberg, Germany
{alfred.hofmann,ralf.gerstner,anna.kramer}@springer.com
2 Springer-Verlag, Technical Support, Heidelberg, Germany
[email protected]
Abstract. The abstract {style abstract} is a mandatory element that should
summarize the con-tents of the paper and should contain at most 150 words.
Keywords: Please list your 3 - 5 keywords {style keywords} here. They should
be separated by commas.
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Introduction
You will find here the guidelines for the preparation of the 11th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2013) proceedings based on Springer’s Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Your contribution has to be prepared using this
Microsoft Word 2003 template. In essence, we ask you to make your paper look exactly like this document. The easiest way to do this is simply to replace the content
with your own material.
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Preparation of Your Paper
2.1
How to Start Writing a New Document Using the Template
1. If you have not yet started to write your paper, please open Windows Explorer, select the template file and click New in the file’s context menu to create a new document that is based on the template.
(Do not open the template out of Word via File→Open. You would edit the template instead of creating a new document that is based on the template.)
2. You can easily find out whether a new document has been created by looking at
the window’s title: it should read ‘Document1’ (or Document2, Document3, etc.).
3. Maybe a security warning will pop up that asks you to activate the template’s macros. You need to click ‘Enable’ to load and enable the template’s custom toolbars.
This security warning will pop up every time you open the document.
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11th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik,
27th February – 01st March 2013, Leipzig, Germany
4. Save the document and name it with your name and a short form of the title (e.g.,
TitleOfMyPaper.doc).
2.2
Structuring Your Paper
Affiliations. The affiliated institutions {style address} are to be listed directly below
the names of the authors {style author}. No academic titles or descriptions of academic positions should be included in the addresses. Either this information should be
omitted altogether (preferably), or it should be included in a footnote at the end of the
first page (to sign remarks pertaining to the title or the authors’ names symbols should
be used (e.g. “*”) instead of a number). Multiple affiliations should be marked with
superscript arabic numbers, and they should each start on a new line as shown in this
document. In addition to the name of your affiliation, we would ask you to give the
town and the country in which it is situated. If you prefer to include the entire postal
address, then please feel free to do so. E-mail addresses {style e-mail} should start on
a new line and should be grouped per affiliation.
Headings. Headings {style headings1..4} should be capitalized (i.e., nouns, verbs,
and all other words except articles, prepositions, and conjunctions should be set with
an initial capital). Words joined by a hyphen are subject to a special rule. If the first
word can stand alone, the second word should be capitalized. Here are some examples
of headings: “Criteria to Disprove Context-Freeness of Collage Languages”, “On
Correcting the Intrusion of Tracing Non-deterministic Programs by Software”, “A
User-Friendly and Extendable Data Distribution System”, “Multi-flip Networks: Parallelizing GenSAT”. Headings should, with the exception of the title {style title}, be
aligned to the left. Only the first two levels of section headings should be numbered,
as shown in Table 1 (this should be done automatically). The respective font sizes are
also given in Table 1. Kindly refrain from using “0” when numbering your section
headings.
Table 1. Font sizes of headings. Table captions should always be positioned above the tables.
{style tablecaption}
Heading level
Title (centered)
Example
Lecture Notes
Font size and style
14 point, bold
1st-level heading
1 Introduction
12 point, bold
2nd-level heading
3rd-level heading
4th-level heading
2.1 Printing Area
Run-in Heading in Bold. Text follows
Lowest Level Heading. Text follows
10 point, bold
10 point, bold
10 point, italic
Normal Text. You should use the style standard – first paragraph (Times New Roman, font size 10) for the first paragraph in a chapter or after figures, tables, listings
and formulas (without indentation) and the style standard for all following paragraphs
within a chapter.
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Lemmas, Propositions, and Theorems. The numbers accorded to lemmas, propositions, and theorems, etc. should appear in consecutive order, starting with Lemma 1.
Please do not include section counters in the numbering like “Theorem 1.1”.
2.3
Figures and Tables
It is essential that all illustrations are as clear and as legible as possible. Vector
graphics – instead of rasterized images – should be used for diagrams and schemas
whenever possible. Please check that the lines in line drawings are not interrupted and
have a constant width. Grids and details within the figures must be clearly legible and
may not be written one on top of the other. Line drawings are to have a resolution of
at least 800 dpi (preferably 1200 dpi). The lettering in figures and tables should not
use font sizes smaller than 6 pt (~ 2 mm character height). Figures are to be numbered
and to have a caption {style figurecaption} which should always be positioned under
the figures. Tables are also to be numbered and to have a caption {style tablecaption},
but the caption should always appear above the table.
Captions are set in 9-point type. If they are short, they are centered between the
margins (Fig. 1 shows an example). Longer captions, covering more than one line, are
justified. Captions that do not constitute a full sentence, do not have a period.
Fig. 1. Artifacts empowered by Artificial Intelligence {style figurecaption}
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Text fragments of fewer than four lines should not appear at the tops or bottoms of
pages, following a table or figure. In such cases, it is better to set the figures right at
the top or right at the bottom of the page. A figure should never be placed in the middle of a paragraph.
If screenshots are necessary, please make sure that the essential content is clear to
the reader.
Remark 1. In the printed volume, illustrations are generally black and white (halftones). If you use colored figures that are to be printed in black and white, please
make sure that they really are also legible in black and white. Some colors show up
very poorly when printed in black and white.
2.4
Formulas
Displayed equations or formulas {style equation} are centered and set on a separate
line (with an extra line or half line space above and below). Displayed expressions
should be numbered for reference. The numbers should be consecutive within the
contribution, with numbers enclosed in parentheses and set on the right margin.
Please do not include section counters in the numbering.
x+y=z
(1)
Equations should be punctuated in the same way as ordinary text but with a small
space before the end punctuation mark.
2.5
Footnotes
The superscript numeral used to refer to a footnote appears in the text either directly
after the word to be discussed or – in relation to a phrase or a sentence – following the
punctuation mark (comma, semicolon, or period).1 Please note that no footnotes may
be included in the abstract.
2.6
Program Code
Program listings or program commands in the text are normally set in typewriter font
{style programcode}:
program Inflation (Output)
{Assuming annual inflation rates of 7%, 8%, and 10%,...
years};
const MaxYears = 10;
var Year: 0..MaxYears;
Factor1, Factor2, Factor3: Real;
begin
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The footnote numeral is set flush left and the text follows with the usual word spacing {style
footnote}.
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Year := 0;
Factor1 := 1.0; Factor2 := 1.0; Factor3 := 1.0;
WriteLn('Year 7% 8% 10%'); WriteLn;
repeat
Year := Year + 1;
...
until Year = MaxYears
end.
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Other Styles
Besides the above mentioned styles there are more useable format specifications:
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Listings {style bulletitem or dashitem}
Numeration {style numitem}
Reference {style referenceitem}
Subtitle {style subtitle}
2.8
Citations and Bibliography
Authors using software tools for managing bibliographies (like Endnote, Citavi) can
apply the preconfigured style format Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
For citations in the text, of tables and figures authors have to use square brackets
and consecutive numbers. Numbers should be grouped where appropriate. We would
write [1-5] but [1], [3], [5], etc. The numbers in the bibliography section are without
square brackets.
References should be published materials accessible to the public. Internal technical reports may be cited only if they are easily accessible (i.e. you can give the address to obtain the report within your citation) and may be obtained by any reader.
Private communications should be acknowledged (e.g. with a footnote), not referenced. Please base your references on the examples given in the references section of
these instructions and write all references using the latin alphabet. If the title of the
book you are referring to is, e.g., in Russian or Chinese, then please write (in Russian)
or (in Chinese) at the end of the transcript or translation of the title. Word may try to
automatically ‘underline’ hotlinks in your references; the correct style is NO underlining. Please make sure that all your sources are correctly listed in the reference section.
The references section at the end of this paper shows a sample reference list with
entries for journal articles [1], an LNCS chapter [2], a book [3], proceedings without
editors [4] and [5], as well as URLs [6], [7].
2.9
Plagiarism
All papers submitted to WI2013 need to contain original work and must not be published in or submitted to other conferences, workshops or journals before the official
notification deadline of WI2013. In case the paper contains parts of previous work,
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these need to be referenced and the WI2013 paper must provide substantial new research aspects. Any conspicuity or hint to plagiarism [7] needs to be reported and will
be investigated. Cases of plagiarism will be discussed in the track meeting and the
general conference meeting.
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Additional Information
3.1
Copyright Agreement
Please don´t forget to read the copyright agreement provided on
http://www.wi2013.de/192.0.html?&L=0. Authors declare acceptance of the copyright conditions specified therein with the submission of their paper.
3.2
Review Process and Submission
Authors can find information concerning steps and timing of the review process and
the review system on www.wi2013.de/index.php?id=124. During the review process
authors have to submit their papers multiple times in different formats:
 First submission: pdf document generated out of this doc document
 Re-submission of conditional accepts: pdf document generated out of this doc
document
 Final submission (camera ready version): doc document
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3. Foster, I., Kesselman, C.: The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure. Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco (1999)
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Distributed Resource Sharing. In: 10th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, pp. 181–184. IEEE Press, New York (2001)
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6. National Center for Biotechnology Information, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
7. ACM:
ACM
Policy
and
Procedures
on
Plagiarism,
http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy
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