Author Instructions

Congratulations on having your paper accepted to the Thirty-Fourth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-34). Final acceptance is conditional upon submission of the final draft of your paper and copyright transfer form being submitted by September 29 and registration by at least one of the authors for the conference by October 1, 2000.

The Proceedings will be published and distributed by the Computer Society Press of the IEEE and listed in its publication brochures. You must follow the IEEE Proceedings Guidelines and their deadlines to ensure that the proceedings are ready for distribution at the Conference in January.

There are 6 steps you must complete by Friday, September 29:

1. Format your paper according to the IEEE proceedings guidelines. Please note that papers cannot exceed 10 pages. The format of your file may be PDF, Word, WordPerfect, PostScript, or RTF.
2. Submit the file containing your formatted paper by FTP to the publisher, using your pre-assigned Filename Code.

   If you are unable to submit your paper via the FTP site, you can make arrangements with IEEE to accept a paper version for an extra charge of US $100. Please contact the HICSS Conference Office by September 20 for information about how to submit a paper version.

3. Also using your Filename Code (adding the "A" at the end), please submit your abstract as plain text only to hicss01-abs@computer.org.

   Please submit your abstract as PLAIN TEXT, ONLY. Do not submit it in any other format. Abstracts not submitted in plain text will be rejected. Abstracts that do not include the code number will be rejected. Make sure to include the following in your abstract:

   1. All author names and affiliations, including e-mail addresses.
   2. Your HICSS 01 paper code number
   3. A list of all keywords
   4. An abstrct not more than 150 words in length

   IMPORTANT NOTE: Please make sure to include your abstract Filename Code (with the "A") in the subject line of your message.

4. Print, complete, and fax to Lorretta Palagi at IEEE (fax number: 1-360-734-9715) the Copyright Form (PDF version, Microsoft Word version, or text only version). If you want to order reprints, print, complete and fax to IEEE (fax number: 1-714-761-1784) the Reprint Request Form (PDF version or text only version).
5. Print, complete, and send to HICSS Conference Office the Audio-visual Equipment Request Form.
6. Print, complete, and fax or mail the Conference Registration Form (PDF version or HTML version)to the Conference Office.

You should also register at the Outrigger Wailea Hotel (PDF version or HTML version) by October 1 as well. While there are other hotels within driving distance of the conference venue, this time of year is very popular in Hawaii and other accommodations may be scarce. HICSS has a limited number of rooms available at the Outrigger.

We also encourage you to make your airline and car reservations as early as possible because they too may become scarce.

Web Copies of Your Paper

Once you submit the Copyright Form, your paper becomes copyrighted by IEEE. You may post a copy of your paper on the Web, but you must display the following copyright notice on the initial page:

Copyright 2001 IEEE. Published in the Proceedings of the Hawai'i International Conference On System Sciences,
January 3-6, 2001, Maui, Hawaii.

Please note that although authors are permitted to reuse all or portions of their IEEE-copyrighted material in other works, this does not include granting third party requests for reprinting, republishing or other types of re-use. ALL THIRD-PARTY REQUESTS MUST BE HANDLED BY THE IEEE COPYRIGHTS & PERMISSION OFFICE. PLEASE DIRECT ALL QUESTIONS ABOUT IEEE COPYRIGHT POLICY OR THIS FORM TO:

Manager, Copyrights and Permissions
IEEE Service Center
445 Hoes Lane
P.O. Box 1331
Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331, USA.
Telephone: +Intl. 908-562-3966.

If you post an electronic version of your paper, you must provide the IEEE with the electronic address (URL, FTP address, etc.) of the posting. For your convenience, you may forward this information to the IEEE FTP site: /pub/incoming/cspress/Web-pprs.