What to Submit Electronically

1. Electronic Version of your Final Manuscript (in PDF or postscript format only)
2. Abstract (in text format only)

How to Electronically Submit your Manuscript and Abstract

The final manuscript and abstract must be submitted over the internet to the electronic submission web site by March 21, 2003 following the directions outlined below. If you fail to meet this deadline, your paper may not appear in the Conference Proceedings.

Instructions:

a) Go to the electronic submission web site: http://www.epapers.org/acc2003/.

b) Log in using your Session code and Paper ID number (provided on your acceptance letter).

c) If there has been a change in the title of your paper or a change in the authors, please provide the correct information following the instructions on the web site. If the title and author information displayed is correct, proceed to the submission of your manuscript.

d) Submit the PDF or postscript format version of your final manuscript following the site directions.

e) Copy or paste your abstract into the space provided in text format only. Please comply with the length limitation of 200 words and refrain from the use of any special characters. Please note that the abstract will appear in the Final Program exactly as entered with no further processing.

f) If you experience difficulty with the submission web site, please contact: acc@epapers.org

What to Submit via Postal Mail or Fax

3. AACC Copyright Form (mandatory, PDF File or Postcript File)
4. Paper Certification Form (mandatory, PDF File or Postcript File)
5. Excess Page Fee of $175.00 per page (mandatory, if applicable; checks only please).

Where to Mail the Copyright and Certification Forms and the Excess Page Fee

Items 3 - 5 above may be mailed to the address indicated below. Checks for the excess page fee must be drawn on a US bank and made payable to: 2003 American Control Conference. Please note that we will not be able to include your paper in the conference proceedings unless the copyright form, paper certification form, and excess page fee, if applicable, are received by March 21, 2003.

2003 ACC Submissions
15 West Marne Ave.
P.O. Box 265
Beverly Shores, IN 46301
USA

Where to Fax the Copyright and Certification Forms

If your paper does not have an excess page fee, items 3 & 4 above may be faxed to: +1 219 871-0211. Please note that we will not be able to include your paper in the conference proceedings unless the copyright form and the paper certification form are received by March 21, 2003.

Submission Deadlines

Submission of all materials by electronic submission, postal mail, and/or fax must be received by the March 21, 2003 deadline following the directions provided above. If you fail to meet this deadline, we may be unable to include your paper in the Conference Proceedings.

Preparing your Presentation

When preparing your presentation, be sure to note on your acceptance letter whether you have an oral or an interactive (poster) presentation. Oral presentations are 20 minutes within a two-hour session. An LCD and overhead projector will be available in the presentation rooms. Please note that you must supply your own laptop computer to make use of the LCD projector. No slide projector or VCR will be available.

Interactive Sessions

This year we will introduce a new medium for presentation at the ACC. We are planning a set of sessions in which the presenters will be allowed to make creative use of poster boards as well as computer simulations (possibly web-based) and hands-on demonstrations. We are hoping that this unique medium will attract a substantial audience to exchange ideas with the presenters. Four Interactive Sessions will be held on Wednesday from 9 am to 11 am in the Exhibits Area behind Adams Mark Hotel tower registration area on street level. These sessions contain both invited and contributed papers that are chosen based on the suitability of their topic to exploiting this medium. Papers in all sessions appear in the proceedings and all papers are eligible for awards, whether they are presented orally or in the interactive sessions, so please keep this in mind when considering suggestions for the best paper award.

Interactive presentation sessions will be two hours long. For demonstrations in these sessions, a variety of media may be available such as an internet connection, LCD, and large screen monitor. A poster board approximately 4x8 feet will also be present. Please contact the Vice Chair for Contributed Papers, Ahmet Palazoglu, anpalazoglu@ucdavis.edu, for any special needs with your interactive presentation. There will be time allocated for set-up and take-down before and after each of the interactive presentation sessions.

 

Conference Presentation

Acceptance of your paper is made with the understanding that at least one author will attend the conference to present the paper. If a paper is not presented during a session, it causes severe disruption to the session and defeats the purpose of the conference. To avoid such disruptions, authors who cannot attend the conference and present the paper are expected to find a conference attendee who can act as a substitute presenter for the paper. If for some reason, you are unable to attend the conference and unable to find a substitute presenter, please inform the Program Chair, Anuradha Annaswamy, aanna@mit.edu, at the earliest time possible, but no later than one week prior to the start of the conference.