350 EUR for each participant (author or not author), includes attendance at all scientific programs, invitation to the welcome reception and the banquet, Proceedings in CD form, daily meals (4 days), transport by bus organized from and to the Bucharest International Airport, one trip from the list of the proposed ones.

IEEE members have to pay a reduced fee.

250 EUR (or equivalent in USD) for each companion (not author or co-author), includes invitation to the welcome reception and the banquet, daily meals (4 days), transport by bus organized from and to the Bucharest International Airport, two trips from the list of the proposed ones.

The best (graded by the reviewers' scores) 20% of papers presented (the session and date will be mentioned) at OPTIM '08, with the author's approval, will be sent by the organizers of OPTIM '08 and will considered for review for eventual publication in IEEE Trans. Vol. IA, PEL, IE, provided their content falls into the scope of these Journals. More details will be given on site at OPTIM '08. This is a result of continuing technical sponsorship from IEEE.

The Proceedings of OPTIM '08 will be included in the
IEEE Xplore database and indexed by INSPEC.

Papers from OPTIM '08. may also be considered, by author's initiative or by invitation, for final review and speedy publication in the new Internet-only international archival journal: "Journal of Electrical Engineering", please visit: "www.jee.ro".

OPTIM 2010 has registered for use of a new IEEE tool: IEEE PDF eXpress™

The new IEEE Xplore® Requirements for PDF will be enforced as of 2005. All conference articles submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore must adhere to the IEEE Xplore PDF specification for compatibility.

IEEE PDF eXpress is a free service to IEEE conferences, allowing their authors to make IEEE Xplore-compatible PDFs (Conversion function) or to check PDFs that authors have made themselves for IEEE Xplore compatibility (PDF Check function).

Dear Colleagues,
The Conference OPTIM '08 holds his own domain and has its own management system.
All reviewing process will be managed electronically. You only have to fill in your data as author (section Authors); we apologize for this small extra effort but we hope the process will get smoother and we all will benefit.
To submit your paper please access:
http://www.info-optim.ro/conforg

Submit a paper using corresponding item in Authors menu;

Fill in carefully the Paper Submission form;

Please remember, use a valid e-mail address when you submit your paper;

You need to choose your own username and password (do not forget them);

The paper id, which you will receive via e-mail upon submission of this form, along

with corresponding password will allow you to make future changes to the submission;

There is an e-mail based mechanism to recover forgotten username and/or password;

Make sure paper is completely blinded (i.e., no authors info);

Further Notes:

Each paper, included in final programme, must be presented by one of his authors;

Presentations can be done in two ways, respectively in dialog or poster sessions;

Single person can be presenting author only twice regardless the form (poster or oral presentation);

Till conference time you have to decide wich of the authors will be the presenting one

(let us know your decision);

The paper submitting periods will be closed as mentioned above.

To help match papers to reviewers, please select between one and four areas that are

most applicable to your paper;

Many thanks for cooperation,
Mihai Cernat,
OPTIM Conference secretary