Please read the following Guideline for Abstracts before starting the submission process.

Abstracts should be not more than one A4 page in length. Please use the abstract template (Word) and follow the format guidelines therein.

Authors may specify whether they would prefer to present their paper as a poster or an oral presentation (20 minutes).

The abstracts will be reviewed by the PBII&D International Scientific Committee. Authors will be notified about the status of their paper up to the 15th July 2009.

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Assessment

Papers will be selected on the basis of the content of the abstract. The abstract should be a self-contained description of the contribution of the paper and why it would be of interest to conference attendees. Abstracts will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee and the Session Organizers. Notification of acceptance will be sent by e-mail on July 15, 2009.

At least one author listed on an abstract should be a registered conference participant to assure that the abstract appears in the Conference Record - Abstract Book. The presenter of an oral talk or poster must be a registered conference participant and any given presenter cannot present more than three papers (including oral talks and posters) during the conference. Where possible, oral/poster preferences and special placement requests will be honored. However, the Session Organizers and the Technical Program Committee retain the final authority for oral/poster placement and the order of papers in the sessions.

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What should the abstract include?



An informative abstract summarizes the entire report and gives the reader an overview of the facts that will be laid out in detail in the paper itself.

Abstracts for submission to meetings serve an important purpose to focus on the significance of the idea by explaining how your approach differs from others and how you will improve on existing knowledge. The abstract often determines whether or not to pursue the article so it is important that the information is conveyed. It is essential that your abstract includes all the keywords of your research, as it will be enabled on databases which other researchers will search

Despite the fact that an abstract is quite brief, it must do almost as much work as the multi-page paper that follows it, by including the following sections that may be merged or spread among a set of sentences:

- Title
The title should explain as much a possible about the context and the aims of the study. In general, it is preferable to make the title a description of what was investigated rather than a statement of the results or conclusions. The abstract’s title should be easy for the reader to understand and should not include jargons or unfamiliar acronyms or abbreviations

- Motivation
Why did you start? Summarize the current knowledge, or state-of-the-art, specifically in relation to the work you are presenting. But if your work is incremental progress on a problem that is widely recognized as important, then it is probably better to put the problem statement first to indicate which piece of the larger problem you are breaking off to work on. This section should include the importance of your work, the difficulty of the area, and the impact it might have if successful.

- Problem statement
What problem are you trying to solve? What is the scope of your work (a generalized approach, or for a specific situation)? Be careful not to use too much jargon. In some cases it is appropriate to put the problem statement before the motivation, but usually this only works if most readers already understand why the problem is important.

- Approach
How did you go about solving or making progress on the problem? Did you use simulation, analytical models, prototype construction, or analysis of field data for an actual product? In a few short sentences, you can give the reader a good idea of the design of the study, the context in which it was done, and the types of instrumentation or measurements that were included.

- Results
What did you find? It is important to give the main results of the study, not in subjective terms (“We found device X to be superior to device Y”) but also in the form of some real data. Put the result there, in numbers. Avoid vague, hand-waving results such as "very", "small", or "significant." The results to be reported should be the most important data in your study, and the findings on which your conclusions will be based.

- Conclusions
What are the importance and potential implications of your results? Keep your conclusions supportable by the findings of your study. Are your results general, potentially generalizable, or specific to a particular case?

Start your submission process:

Abstracts should be not more than one A4 page in length. Please use the abstract template (Word) and follow the format guidelines therein.

Authors may specify whether they would prefer to present their paper as a poster or an oral presentation (20 minutes).

The abstracts will be reviewed by the PBII&D International Scientific Committee. Authors will be notified about the status of their paper up to the 1st July 2009.

You need to upload your .pdf files to: http://www.inpe.br/plasma/pbiid2009 on or before April 15. We recommend using a modern, standards-compliant Web browser to upload the necessary files. You will receive an acknowledgment of receipt of your submission. It may take a few days to two weeks for us to process and check your submission.