Paper Submission	April 7th, 2001 EXTENDED DEADLINE
Acceptance Notification	June 6th, 2001
Camera-ready Paper Deadline	July 15th, 2001
Conference	October 4th -- 6th, 2001

The papers written with LaTeX, as well as those written with other word processing tools, must be formatted according to the llncs.cls style, or equivalent.

The papers must not exceed 12 pages excluding: figures, bibliographic references, and appendices. Papers whose total length exceeds 20 pages are discouraged.