Edited Books

Extended versions of selected papers from the conference proceedings shall be published in edited books by Research Publishing Services, Singapore. Authors of invited papers must strictly obey the guidelines on formatting requirements and deadlines for the chapters of the edited books.

Every extended version of proceedings paper must fulfill the following requirements:

  • Length of papers should be between 8 and 20 A4 pages written in 10-point font, including all graphics and list of references.
  • All contributions should have the following nine (9) sections: Summary/Abstract, Introduction, Background, Literature survey, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussions, Future Extensions, Review Questions, Solutions to Review Questions.
  • The "extended" version of the conference paper should include "extended" introduction, "extended" survey to make the chapter more autonomous and readable like a book chapter.
  • The "Review Questions" section must include miminum of 10 questions and projects related to the discussions in the paper. This will promote the adoption of the edited books as textbooks for graduate courses.
  • "Solutions to Review Questions" section should provide concrete solutions to the problems formulated in the previous chapter or suggest solution hints.
  • Naming of files: The main paper should be named after the last name of the first author. For example, if the first author is called "John Mensah" then the paper should be named "mensah.doc" or "mensah.tex".
  • Accepted file types: The main paper should use either MS Word or Latex with preference to latex, and should be named "mypaper.doc" or "mypaper.tex". All the graphics, i.e. figures and tables in the paper should be converted to "EPS" formats and named after the last name of the first author. For example: mensah_fig1.eps, mensah_fig2.eps, etc.
  • All files belonging to the paper should be zipped and uploaded as one single document. Multiple documents will not be accepted. The zipping should be done to enable processing by Windows packages such as Winzip.