note on originality of submissions

All papers should be written to reach a highly interdisciplinary readership. This type of conference tends to force many details to be left out in the papers that would be expected for instance in a journal article. We encourage authors to cut down technical and experimental details to a minimum so that the publication of experimental data in the conference proceeding does not preclude the same work from appearing in a journal later on. That said, we expect that a conference paper that is expanded into a journal article includes a substantial amount of additional material and experimental details. However, we will not accept papers that are simply modified or shortened versions of journal papers. Please be reminded that the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (where the proceedings will appear) are a highly respected series and that the book is considered an archival publication.