Tutorials

The ICCBSS committee solicits proposals for tutorial sessions. A tutorial is an instructional program that presents new information to the attendees efficiently and provides exercises and/or examples based on that information. It should be organized to teach an entire concept, be self paced, accommodate a variety of users, and involve some questioning, debating, and options for review. Summaries of the accepted tutorials will be included in the conference proceedings.

The following information is provided to help you in tutorial submission and conference preparation.

1. Initial abstract submission – intent to submit
   • Initial abstracts should not exceed 200 words in length, should summarize the topic of your tutorial and must be in English. Submitted initial abstracts will not be evaluated and will be used by the Program Chairs to gauge the type and coverage of conference topics.
   • Submitted initial abstracts can be in either ASCII text or MS Word.
   • Initial abstracts for tutorials should be submitted electronically via the ICCBSS conference submission Website witanweb.ca/iccbss2007/ by 30 June 2006. NOTE: Should you miss this deadline, please contact the program chairs via email at iccbss-2007@sei.cmu.edu and submit your paper as instructed in "Proposal preparation."
2. Proposal preparation
   • Proposals for tutorials consist of extended summaries (expected length is two pages) describing the topic of the tutorial, its target audience and expected learning objectives, an annotated outline summarizing each section, and must include a title, instructor's name and affiliation.
   • Submitted proposals must be written in English using either MS Word or pdf format. We recommend following the conference MS Word document template.
   • Proposals for tutorials must be submitted electronically via the ICCBSS conference submission Website witanweb.ca/iccbss2007/ by 14 July 2006.
3. Proposals acceptance
   • Proposals will be evaluated based on relevance and currency of the topic and organization of the presentation as described in the extended summary.
   • Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by e-mail and will be provided with the reviewer comments by 15 September 2006.
4. Final submission
   • Authors of accepted tutorials are requested to make modifications to the proposals submitted according to the reviewer comments.
   • Authors of accepted tutorials will be sent an author kit (including camera ready instructions and copyright form). Individual authors will submit their camera-ready tutorial extended summaries and copyright forms no later than 3 November 2006.
5. Presentation material submission
   • The final tutorial presentation should be organized to fit 210 minutes (3 hours and 30 minutes time period), including questions and exercises.
   • Presentations slides should be created using MS PowerPoint 98 or later and use standard fonts.
   • Make sure you follow your submitted extended summary and keep your audience in mind when developing your presentation.
   • Your presentation should be educationally focused – "sales pitches" are not appropriate.
   • Presentations should not include proprietary materials that cannot be distributed to the general public.
   • Final presentation material must be submitted via the ICCBSS conference submission Website witanweb.ca/iccbss2007/ by 15 December 2006 to be reproduced as handouts, included in the Conference CD as a pdf, and be preloaded for presentation at the conference.

NOTE:It is our intent to post presentations and conference summaries on the ICCBSS Web site. Submission of final tutorials summaries and presentation slides will be considered as permission to the organizers to print and distribute them at the conference, enclose them in the Conference CD, and post the materials on the conference Web site.

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