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Guide for Authors
Submission of your manuscript is welcome provided that it, or any translation of it, has not been copyrighted or published and is not
being submitted for publication elsewhere. Upon acceptance of an article, the author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright of the article
to the Publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. Manuscripts should be prepared for publication
in accordance with instructions given in the "Guide for Authors" (available from the Publisher), details of which are given below.
Please
follow these instructions carefully to ensure that the review and publication of your paper is as swift and efficient as possible. These
notes may be copied freely.
Submission of manuscripts
On-line submission
Authors are strongly encouraged to
submit their papers electronically by using online manuscript submission at http://ees.elsevier.com/robot. Authors interested
in online submission are requested to go to the website and upload their manuscript and its associated artwork. An electronic (PDF) proof
is generated and the reviewing process is carried out using that PDF. The PDF file may be edited after acceptance to follow journal standards.
Authors and editors send and receive all correspondence by email via the website and no paper correspondence is performed.
Hard-copy
submission
Should you prefer not to use the on-line submission tool, then please carefully read the following instructions.
For the initial submission, Authors should submit one electronic copy (PDF Portable Document Format preferred) and four hard
copies of their manuscripts, one complete set of original illustrations and three copies to one of the Editors.
For the submission
of the final version, two hard copies (on paper) and two soft copies on diskettes or CDs containing the electronic version of
their manuscript (in Word-processor compatible format) are required (express mail preferred). It is important that the electronic file
and the accepted printout are identical. The following information is required: e-mail address, telephone and fax number, computer type
used (PC/Mac), Word processing package.
In case of a hard-copy submission all manuscripts should be submitted to one of the following
editors:
Professor T. Arai (arai at robot.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
University of Tokyo
Dept. of Precision Engineering
7-3-1
Hongo, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo 113-8656
Japan
Professor R. Dillmann (dillmann@ira.uka.de)
Univ. Karlsruhe
Inst.
für Prozessrechentechnik, Automation und Robotik
Kaiserstr. 12
D-76128 Karlsruhe
Germany
Professor T.C. Henderson
(tch@cs.utah.edu)
University of Utah
School of Computing
50 S. Central Campus Drive, Rm. 3190
Salt Lake
City
Utah 84112-9205
USA
Submissions using LaTeX
If the file is suitable, proof will be produced without rekeying
the text. Please do not separate your figures from the manuscript text. The article should be encoded in Elsevier-LaTeX, standard LaTeX
or AMS-LaTeX ('in document style 'article'). The Elsevier-LaTeX package (including detailed instructions for LaTeX preparation) can be
obtained from Elsevier's web site:http://www.elsevier.com/locate/latex. The Elsevier package consists of the files: elsart.cls
(use this file if you are using LaTeX2e, the current version of LaTeX), elsart.sty and elsart12.sty (use these two files if you are using
LaTeX2.09, the previous version of LaTeX), instraut.dvi and/or instraut.ps (instruction booklet), model-harv.tex or model-num.tex (model
files with instructions), template-harv.tex or template-num.tex (template files).
No changes from the accepted version are
permissible, without the explicit approval by the Editor. The Publisher reserves the right to decide whether to use the author's file
or not.
General Author Instructions
Manuscripts should be typed in a single column, with wide margins. Each paper
should be introduced by three to five keywords as well as by a selfcontained abstract of no more than 100 words not counting the formulas.
It should also include references, a short biography and a photo of each author. All pages should be numbered consecutively. The cover
page should be a title page stating: title, author(s), affiliation(s), the mailing address, fax number and email address of the corresponding
author. Please make sure that the paper is submitted in its final form. Corrections in the proof stage other than printer's errors should
be avoided: costs arising from such corrections will be charged to the authors. Footnotes should be avoided as much as possible and be
brief. They should be numbered consecutively. References should be listed alphabetically, as in the following examples: books [1], articles
in journals [2], papers in a contributed volume [3,4], unpublished papers [5].
[1] E. Borger, Computability, Complexity, Logic, North-Holland,
Amsterdam, 1989.
[2] D.E. Knuth, Theory and Practice, Theoretical Computer Science 90 (1991) 1-15.
[3] A.K. Lenstra and H.W.
Lenstra Jr., Algorithms in number theory, in: J. van Leeuwen, ed., Handbook of Computer Science, Vol. A, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1990, pp.
673-715.
[4] M. Li, Lower bounds by Kolmogorov complexity, in: Proceedings of ICALP '85, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.
194, Springer, Berlin, 1985, pp. 383-393.
[5] A. Rajasekar, Semantics for logic programs, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science,
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1989.
Figures should be suitable for photographic reproduction and reduction. They should
be large-size originals, drawn in India ink and carefully lettered, or should be produced using professional quality graphics software
and a laser printer. Handwritten lettering on figures is not acceptable. Photographs and coloured pictures must be of impeccable quality.
Please note that for colour photographs the publisher will charge the printing costs to the author. For specific enquiries on the preparation
of electronic artwork, consult http://www.elsevier.com/locate/authorartwork/.
Figures should have an Arabic number and
a caption.
Tables must be typed on separate sheets and should have a short title and an arabic number. In the main text, figrues
and tables must be referred to as: see Fig. 1, or Figs. 2 and 3; Table 1, etc.
Keyword Instructions
Please add one to five
keywords to your article. Keywords are essential for the accessibility and retrievability of your article. Keywords assigned to articles
will be assembled in a keyword index, which will both appear on the Internet and be printed in the last issue of each volume and in cumulative
indexes. To maximize the consistency with which such keywords are assigned by different authors, the following guidelines have been drawn
up:
• Each keyword (which can be a phrase of more than one word) should describe one single concept. Often words like "and"
or "of" should be avoided.
• Avoid very general keywords which become meaningless once in a keyword list.
Examples
to avoid are "action", "computer", "mathematics". Check whether the keywords as a whole describe the outlines
of the article.
• Use natural language: for instance "automatic error recovery" rather than "error recovery,
automatic". Try to use nouns and adjectives as much as possible (i.E. use "automatic error recovery" rather than "recovering
errors automatically").
• Avoid the use of abbreviations as much as possible, unless an abbreviation is so well established
that the full term is rarely used (e.g. use "laser" instead of "Light
Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation",
but use "computer aided design"instead of "CAD").
Although these guidelines are not mandatory, they should
be adhered to where possible.
Author Benefits
- No page charge is due.
- 30% discount on all Elsevier books.
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The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail or, alternatively, 25 free paper offprints.
The PDF file is a watermarked version of the published article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover image and a disclaimer
outlining the terms and conditions of use.
