Style
Your manuscript should begin with a full title, followed by the names of the authors. Please indicate affiliation, address, and e-mail for each author. Please also indicate between 3 and 5 keywords. We strongly recommend that you have your manuscript type-set using the two-column option.

LaTeX
A LaTeX-style file ieeconf.sty is available through anonymous ftp from bode.diee.unica.it in the directory /pub/wodes98 or on the web at the address http://bode.diee.unica.it/~wodes98/ieeconf.sty.

Size
The camera-ready originals should be prepared using A4-size paper and will not be reduced in size for the proceedings. Please use ten-point type size.

Length
Camera-ready REGULAR papers should be limited to 6 proceedings pages.
Camera-ready SHORT papers should be limited to 3 proceedings pages.

Copyright clearance
Please return your paper together with the copyright clearance (enclosed with the final program) duly filled and signed.

Mailing
One original and one copy of your manuscript should be send to IEE directly at the address below. Be sure, your manuscript is received by IEE before July 10, 1998. Consider using express mail, if you deem it necessary. Only hard copies can be accepted: manuscripts sent by e-mail will not be taken into consideration.

Joanna King WODES'98 Secretariat Control Division IEE Savoy Place London WC2R 0BL, UK. E-mail: jking@iee.org.uk Phone: +44-171-344-5417 Fax: +44-171-497-3633

Some general requirements for camera-ready papers for non-LaTeX users:

• Papers should be written in two columns and in 10pt font size.
• The title of the paper should be in 14pt capitals.
• Section headings should be in 14pt boldface, subsection headings in 10pt boldface. All section headings should be in lower case.
• The heigth of the text should be 254mm, the width 171mm, each column should be 80mm.
• At the bottom of the first column a copyright notice should be typed with the following text:
  (c) 1998 IEE, WODES98 - Cagliary, Italy
  Proc. of the Fourth Workshop on Discrete Event Systems
• A paper should contain a title, the name of the author(s) and the affiliation. Title, authorslist and affiliations should each contain one line and go over the whole width of the page.
  If all authors have the same affiliation, that affiliation should be mentioned only once in a seperate line following the list of authors. If authors have different affiliations, each affilition should go on a separate line, following the list of authors, where numbers indicate the correspondence.
• Sections should be numbered and only start with a capital.
• A paper must contain a list of at most 5 keywords from which it will be clear to what topic the paper is related.
• A short abstract is recommended.
• Keywords, Abstract and Acknowledgement are displayed like unnumbered sections.
• Captions of figures should be centered and numbered. Figures may either occupy one column or occupy the whole width of the text.
• References to the bibliography should be numbered.
• Pages should not be numbered. Numbering will be included later by IEE. For convenience, it is advised to number the pages with a blue pen on the backside of each page.

A sample paper in postscript format WODES.ps is available through anonymous ftp from bode.diee.unica.it in the directory /pub/wodes98 or on the web at the address http://bode.diee.unica.it/~wodes98/WODES.ps.

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