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Why Submit a Paper
Submitting a paper at CIRED 2009 is a unique opportunity to present your views and share your ideas with hundreds of leading professionals. CIRED provides a unique forum to discuss and debate technical, operational and business matters including the opportunity to interact with key players including utility experts, industrial users, manufacturers, regulators, consultants, and academics.
- Every accepted paper will be published in the CIRED conference CD-ROM (
all accepted papers will also be indexed and referenced in IET Inspec and IEEExplore)
- Every author of an accepted paper will be given the possibility and will be strongly encouraged to display their work in the CIRED poster session and interact in depth with the delegates
- Selected authors will be invited by the session chairmen to give a 12 minute presentation in the main sessions with the aim of ensuring an interesting and balanced debate
- In addition, authors and delegates will be invited to prepare a contribution for the main sessions responding to the Special Rapporteur's questions
- Papers with a special accent on research and innovation will be selected for presentation and discussion in the RIF sessions
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How to Proceed
Submissions falling within the scope of the 6 Technical themes are welcome. However, priority will be given to papers addressing one of the subjects of special emphasis, which CIRED feels as particularly topical to its audience.
Submissions will only be accepted using our easy to use online process
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Selection of Abstracts
The abstract proposals posted on the online system will be reviewed in parallel by the relevant Session Chairman and Special Raaporteur and by the National or Liaison Committee of the author's country.
Notification of acceptance of the proposal abstract will be sent on 31 October 2008 to the contact author who will then be invited to submit the full paper with accompanying summary (a simple QUAD) on the online submission system by 12 January 2009.
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On-line Submission Process
Step 1: Download instructions for writing an abstract
Step 2: Download abstract submission template
Step 3: Submit an abstract
Important Dates
| Friday, 5 September 2008 |
Abstract Submission Deadline |
| Friday, 31 October 2008 |
Notification of Acceptance |
| Monday, 12 January 2009 |
Submission of Final Papers |
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Copyright
CIRED 2009 Copyright Agreement:
Copyright form
This agreement relates to all the material published concerning CIRED 2009 such as, but not limited to, conference CD-ROM, presentation slides or other electronic forms. Please note that part or all of the conference may be filmed for www.iet.tv .
In submitting a paper to CIRED 2009 the authors assign to the Institution of Engineering and Technology copyright ownership of the submitted work, this assignment to be effective as of the day of registration of the material at CIRED 2009. The copyright form must be signed by one of the authors.
The Institution of Engineering and Technology shall have the right to register copyright to the article in its name as claimant, whether separately or as part of another medium in which such work is included. Also, the Institution of Engineering and Technology shall have the right to grant reprint permission to third parties and to receive reasonable royalties in such instances.
If a copyright form is not received copyright will be assigned to the corresponding author's affiliation.
Authors reserve the following rights:
- The right to use all or portions of the submitted article in future works of their own
- All proprietary rights, such as patent right
Copyright forms should be emailed, faxed or posted to:
CIRED 2009 Organisers
The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Event Services, Michael Faraday House, Six Hills Way, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AY, UK
Fax: +44(0) 1438 765659, email: eventsa3@theiet.org
Please contact the organisers at your earliest convenience if you are unable to assign copyright to the Institution of Engineering and Technology, or do not wish to be filmed.
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Copyright form
Abstract Template
