MCQMC 2008: Paper's Submission for the Proceedings
The proceedings of
The Eighth International Conference on Monte Carlo and
Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing
(MCQMC 2008) will be published by Springer-Verlag,
in a book entitled
Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods 2008,
edited by
Pierre L'Ecuyer and
Art B. Owen.
The book should be completed by the summer 2009 and will appear
in late 2009 or early 2010.
Manuscript submission (now closed)
Every conference speaker was invited to submit a paper based
on her/his talk. Each submission is refereed.
There is a limit on the total number of pages of the volume,
so please keep your articles as short as possible
(without giving up clarity, of course).
As a guideline, manuscripts based
on a presentation in a special or contributed session should not
exceed 15 pages in the required format, and preferably less.
These manuscripts should
contain original research contributions not published elsewhere,
and should be based on talks given at the conference.
The manuscripts based on invited plenary talks may be longer and can
also be more survey-oriented.
The authors must make sure that they have all the required rights to
publish their material in the Proceedings.
Preparing final manuscripts
The style files and templates that were available on this
web page until February 1, 2009, are outdated and can no longer be used,
due to changes by Springer.
In particular, the main style file svmult.cls has changed.
We are sorry for the inconvenience.
The final manuscripts must be prepared in LaTeX2e with Springer's
style files for contributed books, which are available (with some instructions)
here.
These style files, with templates slightly adapted for MCQMC 2008
and with a few additional instructions, can be downloaded at
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/mcqmc08/proceedings.
The style files and examples are also packaged in this .zip file:
mcqmc08authors.zip.
The formatting style is similar to that of the previous MCQMC books, which is the
one that was on this page until February 1, 2009.
The main changes are indicated in red in the example files author.pdf and pierre-sample.pdf.
The output is about 2 to 4 percent longer, so a 15-page paper is likely
to have 15.5 pages with the new style.
General instructions are in files
authinst.pdf.
and
refguide.pdf.
The file
pierre-sample.tex
provides a short sample paper that can be used as a template.
The template provided by Springer (with some added comments in red) is in
author.tex
For the bibliography, we recommend using BiBTeX with Springer's preferred style file
spmpsci.bst.
Its citations use numbers in brackets, as in the MCQMC 2004 book.
If you do not use BiBTeX, you can format your references by hand using this style.
This is illustrated by the author.pdf file.
Another acceptable style is supported by the
spbasic.bst
style file. This one gives citations in the Name (year) format.
It requires using the package natbib and the citation commands listed near
the beginning of the (standard) natbib.bst file.
References must be in alphabetic order.
We prefer that you do not abbreviate journal names.
If you insist on using abbreviations, you must follow the rules given on page 11 of
authinst.pdf.
Please do not use footnotes anywhere.
The book will be typeset as a single large LaTeX document that
will contain all the manuscripts.
For this reason, you must refrain from
redefining LaTeX commands globally in your manuscript, because they may
affect other manuscripts as well.
In case of absolute necessity, you can define new LaTeX
commands for your document via \newcommand{\mycommand},
but never \renewcommand{\mycommand} or \def\mycommand.
Keep their number to a minimum and avoid using short simple names
that may clash with those of other authors.
Only the material that lies strictly between
\begin{document} and \end{document} will be extracted from your LaTeX file.
The rest will be commented out. If you have defined commands before
\begin{document}, we will try to recover them and define them at the
beginning of the book.
All papers will use an even number of pages in the book.
So there is no point in making an effort to go from 14 to 13 pages, say.
But going from 14 to 15 really makes a difference.
The papers are printed in black and white (no color).
However, if there are special requests to have a few figures in color,
there may be a possibility to print them together
on separate pages at the end of the book (but not in the paper)
if we think it is worth the cost and trouble.
When submitting the final version of your manuscript, please email the following to
lecuyer@iro.umontreal.ca:
- A .pdf file of the final version of your paper, with a file name that
starts with the first author's name.
Make sure that you have used the latest version of svmult.cls, available
here.
- The LaTeX source file of your paper, that should include the references
(no separate .bbl or .bib file; you can simply copy the .bbl file near the end of your main .tex file).
If you have additional .pdf or .png
files for the figures, you must include them as well.
No other format of document is accepted (no exception).
The names of all the files should start with the first author's name.
- A filled and signed copy of Springer's
copyright transfer agreement.
You can scan the signed copy and email it together with the other files.
If this is not possible, then you can fax it to
1-514-343-5834, with an additional
front sheet that indicates: To Pierre L'Ecuyer.
Please proofread your final version very carefully.
A list of commonly encountered LaTeX errors is provided
here.
The instruction files
authinst.pdf
and
refguide.pdf
contain a longer list of typesetting recommendations.