Guidelines for Preparing a Paper for European Conference on Artificial Intelligence

The purpose of this paper is to show a contributor the required style for a paper for ECAI-2000 and PAIS-2000. The specifications for layout are described so that non-LTEX users can create their own style sheet to achieve the same layout. The source for the sample file is available for LTEX users. The PostScript and the PDF file is available for all. The layout is identical to ECAI-98 papers except for the footers. The publisher (IOS Press) will insert a footer for each page. 1 GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS The following details should allow contributors to set up the general page description for their paper: 1. The paper is set in two columns each 20.5 picas (86 mm) wide with a column separator of 1.5 picas (6 mm). 2. The typeface is Times Modern Roman. 3. The body text size is 9 point (3.15 mm) on a body of 11 point (3.85 mm) (i.e. 61 lines of text). 4. The effective text height for each page is 56 picas (237 mm). The first page has less text height. It requires an additional footer space of 3.5 picas (14.8 mm) for the copyright inserted by the publisher and 1.5 picas (6 mm) of space before the title. The effective text height of the first page is 51 picas (216 mm). 5. There are no running feet for the final camera-ready version of the paper. The submission paper should have page numbers in the running feet. 2 TITLE, AUTHOR, AFFILIATION, COPYRIGHT AND RUNNING FEET 2.1 Title The title is set in 20 point (7 mm) bold with leading of 22 point (7.7 mm), centred over the full text measure, with 1.5 picas (6 mm) of space before and after.