The 17th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2003

0A0-00Format Guidelines for English Manuscripts for JSAI2003
The Program Committee of the 17th Annual Conference of JSAI*1*1Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence

The Second Author*2*2

Affiliation #2

This document describes formatting guidelines for English manuscripts for the 17th annual conference of JSAI. This isalso a sample of the formatted manuscripts
style as the main text. The abstract should be no more than
150 words in length.
• Contact address: The contact address of the authors must
be placed at the bottom of the first column. It may include
the name of the contact, affiliation, address, phone number,facsimile number, and E-mail address.
• Header: Each page (including the first page) should have aheader “The 16th Annual Conference of the JapaneseSociety for Artificial Intelligence, 2002” in 10-point italic
Times-Roman (or similar) font. A line should be placed
under the header. The width of the header should be thesame as the width of main text area.
• Paper ID: The identification number of your paper, as
notified in the acceptance letter, should be placed to theright of the title in 14-point Arial (or similar sans serif font).
• Footer (page number): Each page should have the page
number as a footer. The style of the page number is “- # “ where # indicates the page number in Arabic numerals(e.g., “- 1 -“, “- 2 -“). The page number should be started
from 1 for each paper.
• Headings: The first-level headings should appear
proceeded by 1,2, 3 ... in 11pt Arial (or similar sans serif)
font. Second-level headings should appear proceeded by
1.1, 1.2, 1.3 ... in 10pt. Third-level headings should appear
proceeded by (1), (2), (3) ... in 9pt.

1. Introduction
This article contains guidelines for authors contributing to theJSAI2003. The conference proceedings will be distributed on aCD-ROM containing PDF files prepared by the authors. To
ensure that all papers in the proceedings have a uniform
appearance, please refer to the following instructions.

2. General Information
2.1 Deadline for submission
Your manuscript must be received no later than 5:00pm, May
12, 2003. Manuscripts received later than the due date cannot beincluded in the proceedings.

2.2 How to submit your manuscript
You should post your manuscript file via the World Wide Web
from the following URL.
http://proc13.jstage.jst.go.jp/jsaitaikai/servlet/rs?f0101s000

2.3 File format and size
The manuscript file should be a Adobe(R) PDF (PortableDocument Format) file. The size of the manuscript file should beless than 1 Mbytes. The extension of the file name should be .pdf.
The title of the paper and author's name(s) should be the same as
those inputted in the application form.

4. Style files

2.4 Paper length

As a courtesy to authors, we provide template files forMicrosoft Word and style files for LaTex. You can retrieve thesefiles via the world wide web from the following URL;
http://www-kasm.nii.ac.jp/jsai2003/format.en.html
These files will be changed in order to fix bugs, so please use
latest version. Note that the format for submission is neither
Word nor LaTeX.

The length of each paper is two (2) pages. One or two
additional pages can be included.

3. Format
Please format your manuscript as follows;• Paper size: A4 (not 8-1/2 x 11 inch)• Page margins: top and bottom margins: 25mm, left andright margins: 17mm
• Main text: The main body of the paper must be formatted
in two columns in 9pt or 10pt Times Roman (or similarserif font) with 12-point leading (line spacing).
• Title: The title should appear at the top of the first page,
centered over both columns in 16-point. Author’s names
should appear below the title of the paper, centered in 12point, along with affiliation(s). The abstract must be placed
below the affiliation(s), centered over both columns (inslightly narrower width than the main text area) in the same

References[Surname of the first author Year] Names of authors, Title,
Journal, Publisher, Year.

Contact: Name, Affiliation, Address, Phone number, Facsimile
number, E-mail address-1-