Please read the following instructions carefully before submitting your abstract.

Submissions are restricted to 1 individual and 1 joint abstract per author.

In the AUTHORS field of the submissions page, please include affiliation information in parentheses and use the following conventions to list multiple authors:

• For authors with different institutional affiliations: Wallace Muddlehead (University of Cheeseland) & Gromit Wunderhund (Cheeseland Institute of Technology)
• For authors with a common institutional affiliation: Wallace Muddlehead & Gromit Wunderhund (Cheeseland Institute of Technology)

The electronic submissions system accepts an abstract uploaded in a file OR entered as ASCII text. Choose whichever method you feel most comfortable with.

To upload a file, use the panel headed SUBMIT MANUSCRIPT. Here, please read the term "manuscript" as referring to the text of your abstract. Be sure that the file contains the title of your submission in its first line and does not include any author or affiliation information. Submissions for which author names are listed in the uploaded file will be rejected.

To enter your abstract as ASCII text, use the panel headed ABSTRACT. If you use this option, there is no need to include the title of your submission, since the system combines the title (entered in a separate panel) with your text.

• In either case, the text of the abstract should be no longer than 500 words. You may also include examples, data summaries, charts, diagrams, and references. This additional material, taken together, should not exceed 15 lines of text. The abstract title does NOT count towards the word limit.

In the SUBMISSION CATEGORIES section, select as applicable to your submission:

• Indicate whether the abstract should be considered as EITHER PAPER OR POSTER, as PAPER ONLY, or as POSTER ONLY.
   
• If the first author is presently a student, and is therefore eligible for a travel grant, please indicate whether the student is a US citizen or resident. (This information is for administrative purposes only. Travel grants will be awarded to both US and non-US students.)

In the KEYWORDS/TOPICS section, mark the category that best describes the method employed in your research.

Each submission will be acknowledged by email to the corresponding author, using information entered in the CONTACT INFORMATION panel. That email acknowledgment assigns an automatically generated password. Using that password, you may revise an already submitted abstract, from now until the deadline, set to 6 PM Eastern Standard Time, December 15, 2005.