Presentation Guidelines
Poster Presentations
Size and materials
Poster boards are 210 cm high by 90 cm wide and can accommodate posters of up to A0 size
(1189mm high x 841mm wide). Materials for attaching posters to boards (e.g. Scotch tape,thumbtacks) will be supplied.
Presentation
Posters will be displayed in Multipurpose Room 2 on the third floor of the Faculty of Engineering Bldg.
No.8. The poster board for your poster will be marked with a three-digit Paper ID, which appears inthis program, and in the CD-R and book form of the Abstracts. All posters will be displayed on theboards from 9:30 Monday, 13th to 16:30 Friday, 17th. Two poster sessions are scheduled as follow;
Session 1 (Odd ID numbers): Tuesday 14th September (10:40-12:40)
Session 2 (Even ID numbers): Thursday 16th September (10:40-12:40)
Authors of poster presentations are expected to be present near their own posters throughout thesession. We will have to discard any posters which have not been taken down by 16:30 on Friday 17th.

Oral and Symposium Presentations
Authors of papers in both oral sessions and symposia are requested to comply with the followingguidelines.
Equipment, format and submission
Each presentation room will be equipped with a laptop PC with CD/DVD drive, Windows7 andMicrosoft Office 2007, a loudspeaker, a screen, a microphone and a laser pointer. Only PowerPoint
presentations made in Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 or earlier versions will be accepted.

Those whouse Macintosh or Unix systems are requested to convert their presentations to those mentioned
above before they leave their country.

Authors are requested to use standard fonts only, such as

Times New Roman、Arial、Arial Black、Arial Narrow, Century, Century Gothic, Courier, and Courier New.
The organizers cannot guarantee proper operation of any sound or movie files that are linked to a
PowerPoint file.

If authors want to use these functions, then they may do so, but at their own risk.

In such cases, it is recommended to use popular and widely compatible formats such as MP3, AAC,and WMA for sound, and MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and WMV.
Authors will able to check their presentation file(s) in the Preview Room (see below).

If you find thatyour presentation does not work properly, please ask Preview Room staff for their support.

Presentation file submission
By the day before the scheduled presentation, please bring your presentation file(s) to the Preview
Room (second floor of Clock Tower building) on a USB memory, CD-R, or DVD-R. The presentation
should be in a file named with the three-digit Paper ID (see Program or Abstracts) followed by thefamily name of the presenter.

If sound or movie files are used in your presentation, please put thesefiles and the PowerPoint file in a folder, which is also named with the three-digit Paper ID number
followed by the family name of the presenter.

Copy your presentation file or folder onto a Preview

Room computer following instructions from the staff there.
It is highly advisable that you check your presentation for compatibility by yourself, or with the help of
our technical staff, before submitting your file(s). This is particularly important if you prepared your filewith Macintosh, Unix, or other systems.

The staff will do their best to help you.

The Preview Roomwill be open from 15:00 to 20:00 on 12th September, from 9:30 to 20:00 on 13th to 16th, and from 9:30
to 12:00 on 17th.
Timing signals for the presentation
Oral sessions will be led by chairpersons appointed by the Committee of Program and Symposium.
Timing for each presentation is strictly under the control of the chairpersons.

Oral presentations areallocated 15 minutes, plus 5 minutes for discussion. The end of 15 minutes will be indicated by asingle ring of a bell, and the end of the 20 minute session by rings of a bell. Symposium sessions willbe led by the organizers and the timing for each presentation is under the control of the organizers.
Most participants in the congress are not native speakers of English. Many of the audience may havedifficulty understanding your paper if the delivery is too fast. Please bear this in mind when
considering the content of your 15- minute presentation.
Presentation time schedule
Please arrive at the presentation room 10 minutes prior to the start of the session.
times listed in the program cannot be altered.

Please note that

If a speaker fails to appear at his/her allotted time

there will be a break or additional discussion time, and subsequent presentations will take place
according to the schedule.

Workshop Presentations
Each presentation room will be equipped with a laptop PC with CD/DVD drive, Windows7 andMicrosoft Office 2007, a loudspeaker, a screen, a microphone and a laser pointer. The congressorganizers do not provide any services other than the facilities described above for workshops. The
organizers of each workshop are responsible for presentation format and time-keeping. Note that
authors in workshops should not submit a presentation file(s) to the Preview Room.