MCPC`03

Submission of Papers

Authors will be notified of acceptance of their abstracts by May 1, 2003. Final manuscripts must be received by August 15, 2003.

Submitted abstracts will be subject to a double blind review by an international review committee, and adjudication by the track chairs.

Authors of accepted abstracts have two choices: (1) Either you submit your extended abstract as your contribution to the conference proceedings. This will be sufficient for this publication. (2) Or you submit a full paper of your abstract. In this case you will also enter the best paper competition and may be invited to place your paper in an international book (Advances on Mass Customization and Personalization, Vol. II). Also, we are working on organizing a special issue in an appropriate journal presenting the best papers of the conference.

In both cases the deadline for submission of the (final) abstract or the full paper will be August 15.

The final manuscripts (papers to all accepted abstracted to be included in the conference proceedings and further book and journal publications) should be prepared following the style guide mentioned below.

Style Guide for Final Paper Submissions


Please take care of the following guidelines when submitting a paper:

  • Submit abstracts in Word format.

  • A cover page, giving the title of the paper, the author's name(s), affiliations, and addresses, should be submitted (not included in the word limit) with the abstracts. The cover page should include all of the contact details of the corresponding author, who will be the first named author unless otherwise specified.

  • Authors should not identify themselves, either directly or indirecty, in the text or on other pages than the cover page.

  • Please list one or more topics from the topic list indicating the main areas of your paper.

  • Please quote literature within your abstract as follows: Author-Surname (year) [Example: "as shown by Miller (2001)" or "as shown by Miller/Brown (2001)" or "... as research has shown (smith 1999, Miller 2001, Miller/Brown 2001)"].

  • References should be given as follows:

    • Book: Miller, Peter (2001): Advances in Mass Customization, Boston: Harvard Business School Press 2001.
    • Journal: Miller, Peter / Brown, Anton (2001): Advances in Personalization, Journal of Personalization, Vol 23, No. 3, pp. 34-38.
    • Book chapter: Smith, John (1999): Research topics in mass customization, in: Peter Miller (ed.): More Advances in Mass Customization, Boston: Harvard Business School Press 2001, pp. 23-78


Please submit your paper via e-mail only directly to the Program Chair:

Dr. Frank T. Piller
Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Department of General and Industrial Management
Leopoldstrasse 139
80804 Munich, Germany
E-mail: ihl@ws.tum.de