Title of Extended Abstract for the 13th TPMDC

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Short abstract: Abstract should be written with 10 font size, Times New Roman, single line spacing. The abstract should contain no more than 150 words.

Keywords: This section should contain minimum 3 and maximum 5 keywords separated by comma.

INTRODUCTION

This document presents the instructions needed to prepare the extended abstract (not exceeding 4 pages in length including text, figure, table and references).

The title (14 point, bold), authors’ names (12 point), and affiliations (10 point) should be set flush-centre. Please leave one blank line (12 point) after the title as well as after the list of authors.

All abstracts should be written in English. In order to achieve graphical consistency, the extended abstract should be written using Microsoft Word. It should be A4 size paper with margin 1 inch on all sides in MS Word format in 12 points New Times Roman type single line spacing. Page numbers are to be provided at bottom-centre in Arabic numerals.

The body text itself should be left and right justified. The extended abstract should contain the following sections: Introduction, Objectives, Methodology, Results, Discussion/Conclusion and Recommendations, and References, with each section headline written with Times New Roman font, 12 font size, bold, and all caps. These sections can be named differently and subsections can be included. The extended abstract can contain figures, tables, and images.

Please note that the section headings given in the previous paragraph are for guidance alone emphasizing the general aspects to be covered. The authors may modify the headings, as required.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

All materials and methods that have been used in the work must be stated clearly and subtitles should be used whenever necessary.

Subtitle

First degree titles (2.) should be written left aligned, all caps and bold. Second and 3rd degree subtitles (2.1, 2.1.1) should be written left aligned, bold and with title case. A blank space should be placed between the paragraphs and there should not be any paragraph indentation.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Subtitle

Supporting figures, tables and images may be included in the extended abstract. All the tables, images and figures should be centred. The tables should also be numbered and the table caption should be placed at the top as shown in Table 1. Figures and images should be numbered and figure captions should be placed under the figure or image as shown in Figure 1.

Table 1: Example Table

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Row 3a	Row 3b	Row 3c
Row 4a	Row 4b	Row 4c
Row 5a	Row 5b	Row 5c
Row 6a	Row 6b	Row 6c

Subtitle

Figure 1: Example graph for the extended abstract

CONCLUSIONS

Conclude your work incorporating important finding as well as future works (3-4 lines).

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Please acknowledge your research grant, organization, scholarship (if relevant).

REFERENCES

References have to be provided inside the full text as serial numbers within square brackets. They should be presented in the reference section in the serial order of appearance in APA format as shown below.

[1] Hunt, P. B., Robertson, D. I., Bretherton, R. D., & Royle, M. C. (1982). The SCOOT on-line traffic signal optimisation technique. Traffic Engineering & Control, 23(4).

[2] Lighthill, M. J., & Whitham, G. B. (1955). On kinematic waves I. Flood movement in long rivers. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 229(1178), 281-316.