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          CAMERA READY PAPER INSTRUCTIONS
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          <h3 class="text-heading encode-sans-semi-expanded-bold"><b>Formatting Camera ready paper</b></h3>
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              <li>
                Address review comments carefully. MERCon 2025 Program Committee
                will scrutinize each camera-ready paper and have the right to
                Reject your paper if it is determined that author(s) has not
                taken sufficient effort to improve the paper based on reviewer
                comments.
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                Paper MUST strictly follow 2-column
                <a style="color: #d59d0f !important;"
                  href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates"
                  >IEEE template</a
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                . Select Page Size A4.
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                <b>Pay careful attention</b> to formatting Title and first page, Author details (affiliation and contact details), abstract, format of headings (main and subheading), paragraphs (line spacing and formatting), equations, acknowledgements, and references.
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                Enter any acknowledgements for <b>funding source</b> (e.g., NSF, NRC,
                and SRC), if applicable.
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                 You are <u>not</u> allowed to change the title of the paper.
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                 You are <u>not</u> allowed to add new authors to the paper.
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                Author names, affiliation, and order of names on EDAS need to be
                same as what is on the final. Proceedings will be prepared based
                on this data and <b>CANNOT</b> be modified later.
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                <b>INCLUDE author information, i.e., names, affiliations, email</b> as
                in IEEE template in Camera Ready paper.
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                Abstract on EDAS should be the same as the abstract on final
                paper. <b>IMPORTANT: Abstract in EDAS will be used for proceedings.</b>
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                Only PDF files that are IEEE PDF compliant are accepted. (i.e
                Please check the compliance at IEEE PDF Express.)
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                <b>IMPORTANT: Do not include page numbers.</b>
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                <b>IMPORTANT: Remove the copyright stamp appearing on the bottom left-hand corner of the first page of the IEEE paper template. Shown in figure below.</b>
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              <li>Make sure the images, graphs and tables are clear and text is legible.<b> Strictly follow the IEEE formatting guidelines regarding their position in text and formatting image/table titles.</b></li>
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                IMPORTANT: <br>
                CAMARA READY VERSION IS CONSIDERED AS FINAL. ANY
                PAPER THAT DOES NOT COMPLY WITH THE IEEE FORMAT CAN GET REJECTED
                AT THE PHASE OF FINALIZING THE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS.
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        Before Creating a PDF;<br>
        Proofread your source document thoroughly to confirm that it
        will require no revision,
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    <h3 class="workshop-intro" style="padding-top: 10px;">CREATING YOUR PDF EXPRESS ACCOUNT</h3>
    <p class="workshop-intro" style="padding-top: 10px;">Log in to the IEEE PDF eXpress at
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        Enter the following:
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        Continue to enter information as prompted.<br />
        An Online confirmation will be displayed,<br />
        An email confirmation will be sent verifying your account setup.
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        <b>Previous users</b> of PDF eXpress need to follow the above steps, but should enter the same
        password that was used for previous conferences. Verify that your contact information is valid.
        <p style = "padding-top: 10px !important;">For further information, please refer the following document:
        <a href="./assets/pdf/67903X.pdf" style="color: #d59d0f !important;">PDF Express</a>
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