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{\large \bf SYMPOSIUM ON VIRTUAL REALITY IN \\
MANUFACTURING RESEARCH AND EDUCATION} \\

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October 7-8, 1996 \\
The University of Illinois at Chicago \\

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{\underline {\bf MANUSCRIPT FORMAT INSTRUCTION SHEET}} \\
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Thank you for choosing to submit a paper to the Symposium on Virtual Reality
in Manufacturing Research and Education.   Revised versions of selected 
papers from the symposium will be recommended for submission to a 
special issue of the IIE Transactions on Virtual Manufacturing.  
Therefore, conference format instructions conform closely with those
required for journal submission.

A latex template file for the format described below is available 
via anonymous ftp from {\em info.mcs.anl.gov} 
in the file {\em pub/IVRI/IVRI.tex}.

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{\underline {\bf GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS} }
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\item The maximum permissible length of the manuscript is ten pages.

\item The desired general sequence of the manuscript is
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lakdjlakj \= \kill
\> -- Title and author information \\
\> -- Abstract \\
\> -- Keywords \\
\> -- Body of the text \\
\> -- Conclusions \\
\> -- Acknowledgements (optional) \\
\> -- References \\
\> -- Author biographies (optional) 
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\item The manuscript should be single-spaced Times Roman 12-point
font, with double spacing between paragraphs, and with a 3-space 
paragraph indentation.
The title should be printed in Times Roman 16-point font and the
author information in Times Roman 12-point font.

\item Center major section headings in ALL BOLD CAPS.  
Subsection headings should be left justified in upper and 
lower case bold letters (capitalize the first letter of each word).
Leave a blank line both before and after section and subsection
headings.  
You may or may not number the section and subsection headings.

\item Print nothing in the top and bottom margins.  In particular,
do not print page numbers.

\item The papers submitted at this time will be reviewed for
content appropriateness, and reviewers' comments will be returned 
to the authors by July 15.  
Final, revised versions of the papers are due September 1.

%\item 
%Once the final paper has been reviewed, accepted and the necessary
%revisions made, please 
%print the paper code assigned by the IVRI, the first author's 
%last name, and the page number and total number of pages 
%(1 of 6, 2 of 6, etc) on the back bottom right hand corner 
%of each page of one complete manuscript.
%On the remaining three manuscripts, place the IVRI code number on the
%back corner.
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{\underline {\bf FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS}}
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\item {\bf TITLE}: The title should be one to three lines long,
typed in all capital letters (bold Times Roman 16-point font), and centered 
horizontally on the first page, 1.5" from the top edge.  
Skip two lines and type the author name(s) (first
name first), complete mailing addresses, and email addresses if
available.  For example,

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{\large\bf THE TITLE OF THIS PAPER} \\

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Mary K. Jane and John B. Smith \\
Department of Computer Science \\
University of Somewhere \\
Somewhere, Somestate 45000 \\
email: \{jane,smith\}@somewhere.edu
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\item {\bf ABSTRACT}:  Begin each paper with an abstract (100-200 words) 
that summarizes the topic and important results presented 
in the paper.  
Start with the abstract heading, bold, centered, and typed in caps.

\item{\bf KEYWORD LISTING}: Following the abstract should be a list
of 4-6 keywords.  Please left justify the heading as follows: 

{\bf Keywords:} keyword1, keyword2, etc. 

\item {\bf TABLES AND FIGURES}:  Tables and figures should be
centered horizontally on the page close to their first mention in
the text.  Number and label the tables and figures with arabic 
numerals and a descriptive caption.  Be sure to check figures for
readability and clarity as they will be reproduced exactly as 
submitted.

At this time we are planning to support color figures in the published
proceedings.  More information relating to this issue will be 
sent to submitting authors as it is obtained.

\item {\bf ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES}:  Both of these
sections are optional, and if included the section titles should 
be treated as regular major sections. 
The individual author biographies should be 50 to 100 words long
and formatted as follows:

{\bf Author Name}: Educational background, research interests, etc. for
this author.

\item {\bf REFERENCES}: Alphabetically list the references by
first author's last name with preceding bracketed numbers.  The
citation in the text is by bracketed number only.  Only cited
references and publications which are readily available should be 
included.
Please use the following style for the reference list:

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123 \= 12 \= \kill
\> [1] \> Kouvelis, P. and Tirupati, D.T. (1991) Their journal article.
{\em A Very Fine Journal}, \\ 
\>\> {\bf 2} (4), 108-125. \\ \\
\> [2] \> Schmidt, A. (1989) {\em Book Title}. Prentice Hall, Englewood
Cliffs, N.J. \\ \\
\> [3] \> Warren, K. J. (1994) A proceedings article. In {\em Proceedings
of a conference}, San Diego, \\
\>\>California, 281-287.
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{\underline {\bf PAPER SUBMISSIONS}}
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Four copies of the manuscript must be submitted by June 1, 1996 on regular 
8.5 $\times$ 11 inch laser printer paper using the conference paper
format described above.  Use one side of the sheet only.
Please send your submissions to:

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123 \= Paper submissions should be sent by\= June 1, 1996 to: \kill
\>\> Lori Freitag \\
\>\> MCS 221 / C236 \\
\>\> Argonne National Laboratory \\
\>\> 9700 South Cass Avenue \\
\>\> Argonne, IL 60439  \\
\>\> Ph: (708) 252 7246, Fax: (708) 252 5986
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Papers in postscript format will be accepted via email 
(to {\em freitag@mcs.anl.gov}) or via anonymous ftp to 
{\em info.mcs.anl.gov} in the directory {\em incoming}.  
If you are submitting via anonymous ftp, please send email
to {\em freitag@mcs.anl.gov} giving the postscript file
name and IVRI paper number assigned to your submission.

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