The Program Committee request original papers on the topics. Authors (no more than four for each paper) must submit the camera-ready final version of papers written in English (official language of the conference), of up to 8 pages (including figures, tables and references) in electronic format by one of the following ways:

• Through a pre-organized session (refereed by session organizer and one external referee): Please, send 1 copy to the session organizer and then (after session organizer agree) register the paper in the submission web form.
• Or directly to the general program (two external referees): Please, register directly the paper in the submission web form.

Please, do not send printed copies nor email attachments (except when required by the organization staff). All authors must fill (by themselves or by the contact author) the required data for the program database form as specified in the submission web form.

The proceedings will be published in the "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" series from Springer-Verlag.

The format of the contributions must be A4 paper, in a Roman font, 10 point in size, with a printing area of 12.2 cm x 19.3 cm (4.8 in x 7.6 in). Please, make use of the L^ATEX2_e style file available in the Springer Author's instructions web page: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html As alternative (not encouraged), Springer provides a MS-Word template in the same site. All figures must be gray scale (not color) and, please, be sure the number of data points in graphs (statistical or function) is not excesive for the redering capabilities of printers. Please, switch off running headings and page numbering from the Springer templates.

Papers out of format will be automatically rejected, until the deficiencies are corrected in time before referee process. Draft versions of the papers will not be accepted at all.

All received papers will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers must be presented either orally (overhead, slide, data projectors and a PC with standard presentation software will be available) or as poster panels (size 90 cm. width x 150 cm. height), however all accepted contributions will be published at full length using directly the camera ready electronic file sent by the authors. It is required at least one author registration for each accepted paper.

Also, authors must fill and sign the copyright form required by Springer, that can be found through a link in the Author's instructions web page, and after paper acceptation send it through postal mail or fax (+34-91-398-6697).