Submissions of Abstracts -- Cancun 2005: The 49th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences

The 49th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences
July 1st - 5th 2005
Cancun, Mexico

Requirements for Submitted Abstracts

Abstracts should include the working title of the paper, authors' names and contact information, and a summary of the proposed contents of the paper. The abstract should provide an overview of your main point, the methods by which you plan to support your ideas, and if appropriate, a description of the case studies you plan to present. Abstracts can be a full page in length, and can include figures, but please do not exceed the one-page limit.

Formatting of Abstracts

Two lines below the title and affiliation, type the heading "ABSTRACT" and then after one line space, start a brief abstract as the first paragraph of the paper.

Figure captions should be typed directly below the figure, in bold 12 point type, upper and lower (title) case and centered.

Table captions should be flush left above the table. Tables should be included in the manuscript proper and referred to in the text as "Table X. Description of Table."

Abstracts should be sent as an attachment in some commonly used word-processing program like Microsoft Word, but submission of an abstract typed in the body of the E-mail is also permissible.

All abstracts, in electronic form, are to be sent to the ISSS Business office at isssoffice@dsl.pipex.com. If E-mail is not possible, the abstracts may be mailed to the ISSS Business Office, 47 Southfield Road, Pocklington, York yo42 2XE, England.

If you know a SIG that you would like to present your paper in, please write the SIG name on your abstract (see the ISSS Web site for SIG descriptions, at http://projects.isss.org/Cancun2005SIGCallsForPapers [1]. Abstracts will then be forwarded to the Program Committee and Special Integration Group (SIG) Chairs.

Authors of abstracts that have been accepted for the conference should follow the style guidelines [2] for final papers.