Late-breaking Papers

The annual XML Developers and Metastructures Conferences have traditionally featured "bleeding edge" presentations, so-called perhaps because they are out "beyond the leading edge" of the information management industry. Such presentations are about ideas and technical developments that are so late-breakingly newsworthy that, for one reason or another, the normal lead time required for peer review (and provably impartial access to the podium) is impossible.

The organizers of the Extreme Markup Languages Conference are reserving a small minority of the speaking slots in order to provide the freshest possible salad again this year. These slots will be awarded entirely at the discretion of the conference chairs and co-chairs only a couple of weeks before the conference actually occurs, just as the final programs go to press.

Inevitably, paper presentation proposals arrive after the deadline for inclusion in the peer review process. This year, all such proposals will be considered for the late-breaking slots, along with the papers that did not make the cut in the peer-review process. Preference will be given to proposals of such a technically newsworthy character that simple tardiness is not the reason why the paper could not be considered in the regular peer-review process.

If you would like to propose a paper for presentation at the Extreme Markup Languages Conference, you really should submit it *before the deadline for the regular peer review process*. If your proposal does not arrive in time to be considered in the regular peer review process, its chances of winning a slot in the "late-breaking news"category are considerably smaller than they would have been if it had arrived before the deadline.

Additional reasons to submit your paper proposal in time to be considered in the regular peer review process include:

* Late-breaking papers will not benefit from the comments of peer reviewers. The Conference Chairs will not be able to help you, and there will not be time to improve your paper in any event. Papers in need of improvement will not be selected.

* Late-breaking papers will not appear in the Proceedings. (Yes, in the grand tradition of the SGML Conferences, there will be Proceedings!) You won't be able to get offprints, either.

* Late-breaking papers will not be listed in the Preliminary Program.

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