Accepted Author Guideline

*All authors are required to submit all materials such as final paper, copyright form and presentation data online through your page.
To log in your page, clik the following URL with your ID & PW.

ONLINE SUBMISSION

https://www.semiconductorportal.com/issm/updinfo.cfm

IMPORTANT DATE

Notification of Paper Acceptance* Friday, September 26, 2014
Confirmation due for participation in ISSM Friday, October 3, 2014
Speaker Registration Due
(All speaker including interactive poster session required)
Friday, October 10, 2014
Final paper for distribution (The data must be submitted in PDF format) Friday, November 14, 2014
Copyright Form due Friday, November 14, 2014
Final Presentation data due Friday, November 21, 2014
ISSM 2014 Tuesday, December 2-Wednesday December 3, 2014

* To confirm the result of acceptance:
Visit https://www.semiconductorportal.com/issm/result.cfm with using your ID and password which were informed to you at your abstract submission. The result of abstract selection will be available on September 26, 2014.

1. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of ISSM 2014 is English.
The translation service will NOT be provided.

2. PRESENTATION LENGTH

1) FOR ORAL SESSION AUTHORS
The total presentation length is 20 minutes including 15 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions and answers. There will be author's interview period scheduled after the session of the presentation.
The presentation material of the oral session authors is limited to TEN (10) slides at maximum including one cover sheet.

2) FOR INTERACTIVE POSTER SESSION AUTHORS
ISSM "Interactive Poster Session" combines the regular poster session with 3-minute presentation to the entire audience. There will be "NO" question & answer period for the 3-minute talk. The presentation material of the interactive session authors is limited to FOUR (4) slides at maximum including one cover sheet.

3. PROGRAM SCHEDULE

The detail program schedule will be available by middle of August.
http://www.semiconportal.com/issm/2014/program.html

Outline of ISSM 2014 (tentative)

Day 1 Morning Opening/Keynote session
Afternoon Oral session
Networking session
Evening ISSM reception
Day 2 Morning Keynote session
Afternoon Oral session
Short presentation of the Poster session
Evening Interactive Poster session / ISSM Awards

4. INFORMATION CHANGE

All authors are requested to update the information on the title of presentation, speaker, and contact at the ISSM website with using your ID and password which were informed to you at your submission of abstract. In case that you miss you ID and password, contact ISSM 2014 Japan Office at issm_2016@semiconportal.com

5. SPEAKER REGISTRATION DUE - Friday, October 10, 2014

Both Oral and Poster authors are required to register and are kindly asked to do so by October 10.
Registration details and link to the online registration site can be found at
- Speaker Registration
*If you are a student, please contact issm_2016@semiconportal.com

6. FINAL PAPER DUE - Friday, November 14, 2014

Final paper template (word)
*if the template's extension becomes "zip", please change the extension of the file to "docx".
Both oral speaker and interactive poster speaker are requested to submit the final paper.
Please plan to submit your final paper, formatted to IEEE specifications, by November 14.
Each paper must be no longer than four pages (A4 size) using "ISSM Final paper word template" and submitted in PDF format.

Please have your paper proofread by several people before you submit it.
Once your paper is proofread and all information is correct, please upload your paper in PDF format at the ISSM website with using your ID and password. In case the file is in excess of 2MB, it needs to be compressed into a ZIP file.

Author Biography - Please include a brief one-paragraph author biography at the end of the paper. This will allow the session chairs to properly introduce you, before you give your presentation.

7. COPY RIGHT FORM DUE - Friday, November 14, 2014

*ISSM Copyright Form has been changed to IEEE Copyright Form. For detail information, please refer here.
Copyright form (word)
Both oral speaker and interactive speaker are requested to submit
Click here to download the copyright form. Print out Copyright form, fill in a blank, and submit in PDF format through website. In case you have any problem on file conversion, fax to +81-3-5733-4973.
Please return by November 14, 2014.

8. POWERPOINT PRESENTATION DUE - Friday, November 21, 2014

presentation template (Powerpoint)
*if the template's extension becomes "zip", please change the extension of the file to "pptx".
Both oral speaker and interactive speaker are requested to submit
To ensure that all presentations are visually consistent, click here for PowerPoint template. Your presentation must be received by November 21. Once it has been proofread, please upload your presentation material at the ISSM website with using your password and ID same as submission of the paper.
Our online submission system for final paper and presentation materials accepts only for the electronic data files up to 2MB each. If your final paper or presentation material size is over 2MB, please compress your file into zip file. If your final paper or presentation material size is over 2MB, please compress your file into zip file.
All speakers are requested to use the template
For Oral speaker : maximum 10pages
For Interactive poster speaker : maximum 4pages

9. POSTER GUIDELINE FOR INTERACTIVE SESSION AUTHORS

Click here for the detail for poster of interactive sessions.

For further questions, please contact ISSM Japan Office at Semiconductor Portal: +81-3-5733-4971 or email issm_2016@semiconportal.com