Papers

IMPORTANT DATES

 

 

 

Contributed papers submission

Papers should be submitted through the PaperPlaza online system. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will have a choice for oral and/or poster presentations, and will be published in the proceedings. Posters will be displayed throughout the conference and Poster/Interactive Sessions will be scheduled for author/audience interaction.

Types of contributions: Regular papers, Proposals for Organized Sessions, Organized Session Paper (see Important NOTE below), Proposals for Tutorials and Workshops, Invited papers.

IMPORTANT NOTE IMPORTANT NOTE FOR ORGANIZED SESSION PAPER AND SURGICAL ROBOTICS SYMPOSIUM SUBMISSION.   PLEASE NOTE THAT: THE CODE OF THE SESSION\SYMPOSIUM IS CASE SENSITIVE. BE SURE TO USE THE CORRECT CODE THE FIRST KEYWORD (Priority 1) TO BE SELECTED MUST BE ONE OF THE KEYWORDS ASSOCIATED TO THE ORGANIZED SESSION\SYMPOSIUM. THE LIST OF ORGANIZED SESSIONS AND ASSOCIATED KEYWORDS IS AVAILABLE AT https://biorob2012.org/Organized-and-invited-sessions.

Papers format: Papers format is the standard IEEE full paper format in double column IEEE. Initial submissions of contributed and invited papers can be up to 8 pages in length. The page limit for final submissions is of 6 pages without additional charges. For the final submission, up to 2 extra pages (maximum 8 pages) are permitted, with an additional charge of 200 USD per additional page. Papers should be tested for PDF Xpress compliance, visit PaperPlaza for detailed submission instructions.

 

Templates: Paper contributions should be a PDF file (max 2 MB). Due to publisher's requirements, the page settings (margin/textwidth, etc) must conform to the settings in templates. LaTeX or MS Word  templates for US letter size papers must be used for formatting manuscripts. Your paper will not be uploaded in the PaperPlaza System if you don't follow strictly the LaTeX or MS-Word templates for US letter size papers.

Best Student Paper Award: If you would like to nominate a student for the Best Student Paper Award, please fill out the nomination form and upload the form through PaperPlaza.

Instructions to submit to the Surgical Robotics Symposium

Author(s) who would like their paper also to be considered for the single-track Surgical Robotics Symposium should use the code ?ix976? when they upload their paper. Regular papers submitted to the Surgical Robotics Symposium are limited to 6-pages in the double column IEEE compliant PDF format and they will undergo the same peer-review process as papers submitted to BioRob 2012. Author(s) who wish to submit a poster contribution to the Surgical Robotics Symposium, should submit a 2-page paper for review in the double column IEEE compliant PDF format (Surgical Robotics Symposium poster papers will not be published in IEEE Xplore, but will be made available on the BioRob 2012 website).