Paper submission: The paper submission deadline is April 6, 2014 at midnight, Central European Time (CET) with notification of acceptance by May 31, 2012. Submitted papers will be limited to 5 pages in standard IEEE conference format. Manuscripts should not contain page numbers, headers, or footers. For a template latex file, click here. For the IEEE style file, click here. To submit a paper, click here, which goes directly to the EDAS submission webpage for ISTC 2014 (after verifying your EDAS login credentials). Note that there are two tracks. For papers with a life-science related topic, please use the second track. More information on the paper submission process is available here. For help with the submission process online via EDAS, please send email to help@edas-help.com. EDAS requires embedding of fonts, which can, e.g., be perfomed using http://www.freepdfconvert.com/, pdflatex, ps2pdf14 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dEmbedAllFonts=true *.ps, Final submission: Final paper submission deadline is July 1, 2014 at midnight, Central European Time (CET). Note that accepted papers will require at least one author to be registered at full rate. Note also that papers not presented at the conference will not be included into the proceedings on IEEEXplore. The copyright for final papers will have to be transferred to IEEE. Poster format: Maximum poster size: A0