To assist the reviewing procedure, an early submission of a short abstract (up to 150 words) is encouraged. Abstract and paper submissions are via the conference website. The full paper should be submitted as portable document format (pdf) or postscript (ps). Papers must clearly show the name, postal address, email address, phone and fax number of the contact author. 14 pages is the maximum admitted length for submitted papers in the LNCS format; templates can be found at Springer-Verlag website: www.springer.de/comp/lncs/

The LNCS copyright form can be downloaded from here.

Papers exceeding the above limit may be rejected without review. Only papers neither published nor submitted elsewhere may be submitted for publication. The following declaration should be added to the submitted paper:

“All necessary clearances for the publication of this paper have been obtained. If accepted, the author will prepare the final manuscript in time for inclusion in the conference proceedings and will present the paper at the conference.”

The language for all paper submissions and presentations at the conference is English, and no simultaneous translation will be provided.

HOW TO SUBMIT A PAPER

For additional information, please refer to the Call for Papers, the Scope and the Important Dates: Abstract submissionsTD> Extended to 23 Feb 2005 Paper submissions Extended to 7 March 2005 Tutorial proposal submissions 8 April 2005 Notification sent to authors 9 May 2005 Camera-ready submissions 17 June 2005
SAFECOMP 2005 apply the CyberChairPROv6 provided by Richard van de Stadt (Borbala Online Conference Services)
Papers should be submitted via the following web site: http://safecomp.ia.hiof.no/papers/submit/
If you have any further questions, please send an email to safecomp2005@hrp.no

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

After acceptance by the Programme Committee, the final paper is required in electronic version according to the file templates provided by the publisher. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings that will be distributed at the conference.

Springer-Verlag will publish the conference proceedings in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS): www.springeronline.com/lncs

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE

Extended and revised versions of the best papers accepted for the Conference will be peer-reviewed and published in a Special Issue of the international journal Reliability Engineering and System Safety (RESS) published by Elsevier: www.elsevier.com/locate/ress