The reviewing process will be blind to the identities of the authors. Please note that this requires that authors exercise some care not to identify themselves in their papers. The second page, on which the paper body begins, should include the same title, abstract, keywords, but not the names and affiliations of the authors. Flavio M. de Oliveira Inst. Ipiranga 6681 - pr.
Papers wil be subject to peer review by an international program committee.
Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results and the quality of the presentation. Please, note that at least one author should attend the conference for presentation of the accepted paper. SBIA'98 is organizing a workshop for presentation of ongoing works that have preliminary results, and have students as their first authors. The purpose of this session is to give opportunity for students and young researchers to receive acknowledgement and feedback from the audience to their work. The papers will not be published in the proceedings of the main conference, however they will be available in hard copy form at the conference site.