The AUTOTESTCON 2008 Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, intended to promote best results presented at AUTOTESTCON 2008.

Only a maximum of ten papers from AUTOTESTCON 2008 will be published in the Special Issue section of TIM.  However, since many more papers may be submitted, the remaining reviewed and accepted papers will appear in an upcoming regular issue of TIM.Each manuscript should be based on a paper published in the AUTOTESTCON 2008 Proceedings and presented at AUTOTESTCON 2008. However, the manuscript MUST be significantly extended beyond the scope of the proceedings paper (in terms of the overall TECHNICAL content and research results).

The deadline for manuscripts submission is October 30, 2008.

Preparation for manuscript submission

The manuscript, together with the accompanying documents "viz. the manuscript submission cover letter, the IEEE copyright transfer form, and the overlength page charge form" must be submitted electronically using Allentrack the web-based submission system (tim.allentrack.net). Prior to submission of the manuscript, its author, especially if he/she has not yet used the system, should register and obtain a password that will enable him/her to enter the system and read Authors Instructions and Manuscript Upload Instructions. Both instructions contain information of vital importance for a problem-free submission. In particular, Authors Instructions provide the guidelines for the preparation of the manuscript. The following additional requirements must also be satisfied when submitting the manuscript:

1. The manuscript must be TECHNICALLY extended beyond the scope of the AUTOTESTCON 2008 proceedings paper, as mentioned above.
2. At the time of submission, the authors must provide detailed information regarding how the manuscript is a technically-extended version of the proceedings paper, as per the instructions below.
3. The proceedings paper MUST be clearly referred to in the text and listed as one of the references in the special-issue manuscript.
4. A PDF copy of the proceedings paper must also be submitted (uploaded), as per the instructions below.
5. It is the responsibility of the author(s) to obtain permission to re-use and re-print materials from the proceedings paper and this permission must be obtained ahead of time from its publisher.  An acknowledgement and permission statement required by the proceedings paper publisher must be properly incorporated in the Special Issue paper.  The author(s) is (are) solely responsible for this and any other copyright permission-related requirements and issues.  If the proceedings paper was copyrighted by the IEEE, this permission is not required.

When uploading your manuscript click on "Special Issue Manuscript" in the "Manuscript Upload Instructions" page of the Allentrack System.  Then, in page #1 of "Submit Manuscript" you must choose AUTOTESTCON-2008 Special Issue.  Subsequently, in the same page and in the "Files to Upload" section you MUST upload two files; one containing a detailed explanation of how the paper is TECHNICALLY extended beyond the scope of the proceedings paper and another which is a PDF copy of the AUTOTESTCON 2008 Proceedings paper.  To this end, you must put the number "2" in the small box in front of "Extension Beyond Proceedings & Copy of Proceedings (if any was published)" so that the system allows you to upload these two files.  Consequently, these two files will be available to the reviewers.

Failure to submit a detailed explanation of the TECHNICAL extension and a PDF copy of the AUTOTESTCON 2008 Proceedings paper will result in the immediate return of the manuscript to the author(s) as an unacceptable submission.

Notice: AUTOTESTCON 2008 paper identifier should be put in the upper right-hand corner of every document to be submitted.