Submission

Final version submission

The final version in PDF format should be upload via easychair system.There is no copyright.

Electronic templates

The electronic templates for formatting the papers are available in the following formats:

LaTeX

• Class file (mic2015.cls)

This file requires also additional files (graphicx.sty, geometry.sty, times.sty, babel.sty, fancyhdr.sty), which are usually included in the most common LaTeX distributions

• Example LaTeX template (example.tex)
• Example BibTeX file (example.bib)
• Example graphics (mic.eps / mic.pdf)

Microsoft Word

• Template (mic2015.dot)
• Document (mic2015.doc)
• Example graphics (mic.eps / mic.pdf)

A bundle zip file containing all the files above (mic2015.zip)

Please follow the formatting guidelines for correctly typesetting the paper.

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit papers to both the general and the special sessions. During submission authors will be required to specify which track they are submitting their paper to. Submitted papers (both regular and special sessions) must be formatted according to MIC 2015 guidelines and submitted electronically through the MIC 2015 paper submission site. Full instructions including formatting guidelines and electronic templates (both LaTeX and Microsoft Word) are available on the MIC 2015 website.

Submission is only electronic, in PDF format, using the easychair system.

S1) Original research contributions for publication in the conference proceedings of a maximum of 10 pages

S2) Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers on an important research aspect of a maximum of 3 pages

S3) High-quality manuscripts that have recently, within the last six months, been submitted or accepted for journal publication. For this special case, the submission should have the same title that the accepted work, the abstract AND the complete reference of the work.

Accepted contributions of categories S1 and S2 will be published in the MIC'2015 conference proceedings.  Accepted contributions of category S3 will be orally presented at the conference, but not be included into the conference proceedings (neither in the post-conference proceedings).

Selected submissions will be published in:

• Edited book in Springer indexed by ISI Web of Science Conference Proceedings, DBLP, Ulrichs, SCOPUS, MathSciNet, Current Mathematical Publications, Mathematical Reviews, Zentralblatt Math: MetaPress and Springerlink.
• special issue of the International Journal of Metaheuristics
• special issue of the Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the work. Authors will be required to agree to this requirement at the time of submission.

All papers are due electronically by the deadline reported above. Submissions that do not meet the length or formatting requirements will not be accepted for review. No email or fax submissions will be accepted. Notification of receipt of an electronically submitted paper will be emailed to the designated contact author soon after receipt.

If there are problems with the electronic submission, the program chairs will contact the designated author by email.