Information to the Authors

The 1120 abstracts accepted for evaluation were submitted to the
Members of the TELECOM 99 + INTERACTIVE 99 Forum Programme
Committee.
The following criteria were used in the evaluation process and awarded
marks of 1 to 5 (5 = highest score):
- CONTENT: does it reflect excellence of vision, research, approach
  etc.?
- SCOPE: how well does the content fit the relevant Summit?
- ORIGINALITY: does it provide a novel approach?
- TIMELINESS: does it treat current "hot" issues?
- CLARITY: is the abstract structured in a way that would assure a
  clear on-site presentation?
NOTE - A total of 25 marks is available for each abstract.

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Following the individual reviews by the Forum Programme Committee, the
Paper Selection meeting was held in Geneva from 1-5 February 1999.
During this meeting, the Forum Programme Committee :

establish the Preliminary Forum Programme, e.g. define, for all the Summits, the Session themes and the sequence of Sessions;
define the structure of the various Sessions (e.g. Paper presentation, panel, workshop, tutorial);
submitted speakers names to be invited to contribute to the various Forum Sessions, according to the Session themes and to the ratings of the abstracts; and
define the roles attributed to the various participants.

present their paper in a Paper presentation Session;
present their paper as a background contribution to a Panel or a Roundtable Session;
debate on a Panel, a Roundtable Session or a Workshop Session;
develop and/or contribute to a tutorial for the Forum;
contribute to a Poster Session; or
publish a full manuscript in the Forum proceedings.

All Forum participants will be invited to submit a full manuscript to be published in the Forum proceedings. Guidelines for selected Authors regarding the submission of Final Manuscripts will be available on this web site as of April 1999.

Deadline for receipt of Final Manuscripts for inclusion in Forum proceedings: 20 August 1999.

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