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AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CAMERA-READY PAPER
SUBMISSIONS
Thank
you for participating in the IPSN'10 Conference (sponsored by ACM SIGBED)
and contributing to the Proceedings. This web page will acquaint you to the
formatting and submission instructions for the FINAL VERSION of your full
paper, to the proceedings, the required fields, and how and where to
submit your signed ACM Copyright or Permission-Release forms. CLICK
HERE IF YOU ARE SUBMITTING
KEYNOTE/DEMOS/POSTERS.
Please
read the whole page. Submissions that do not conform to the ACM & SIG
standards, specifications, guidelines, and formats will be returned to the
author for corrections and/or alterations.
Submission
Deadlines and Preparation of Copy
All ACM
sponsored proceedings will be included in the ACM Digital Library as well
as prepared for printed publication. All papers for the conference must be
submitted in an electronic format which conforms to ACM specifications.
Your electronic submission is due on or before February 19, 2010 (An e-mail with the camera
ready submission instructions has been sent to the contact author for each
paper. If you have not received this e-mail or you need further assistance
please send an e-mail to dlymper@microsoft.com).
Please submit as early as possible if you are able to do so.
 Your
page limit for a full paper is 12
pages.
Please
read the following, this is important and to ensure the inclusion of your
paper in the proceedings and the ACM Digital Library
(A)MANDATORY
SECTIONS:
The
following list is MANDATORY SECTIONS and should be filled in properly and
accurately by the authors on the FINAL VERSION papers and the submission
page. The material/information entered on the submission page is used to
produce the Indexing of the Proceedings and the metadata to include the
conference proceedings in the ACM Digital Library (Portal):
Title
of Your Submission Should be Initial Caps -- Meaning First Letter
of the Main Words Should be Made Capital
Letters.
Authors
Complete Names -- For each and all authors their first
name, middle initial (if any), and last name need to be included after the title
of the paper on the first page, and on the electronic submission page
(please recheck what you enter)
Affiliation --
EACH authors' affiliation, department (if any) affiliation location, State,
Country, and email address should be included and MUST entered on the
submission page.
Abstract --
Please include an abstract (short overview) of your paper or poster on the
first page top of the left hand column. The abstract on the first page of
your paper or abstract needs to be entered into the abstract field on the
submission page word for word.
ACM
Classification Sections: If your selection of these 3 sections on
the submission page and the first page of your paper do not match, your
paper will be returned to you for revisions and fixes.
o
ACM Categories & Subject Descriptors:
Your
choices of the ACM classifiers need to be included on the first page of
your paper after the abstract and Choosen Properly on the Submission
Page. The setup of This Section as well as the General Terms are
available on both templates. The ACM Computing Classification Scheme is
available at: http://www.acm.org/class/1998/
o
General
Terms: This section is limited to the following
16 terms and MUST be chosen properly on the submission page and appear on
the first page of your paper: Algorithms, Design, Documentation, Economics,
Experimentation, Human Factors, Languages, Legal Aspects, Management,
Measurement, Performance, Reliability, Security, Standardization, Theory,
Verification.
o
Keywords: This
section is your choice of terms you would like to be indexed by and are
mandatory on the submission page, but are NOT mandatory to be included on
the first page. If you do include Keywords on your first page, the section
should appear after the General Terms and before the body of the paper or
talk.
References -- ACM
would like to collect the references/citations used within your paper in
straight text (.txt with no coding), so these can be used to enhance the
capabilities of the ACM DL (Portal).
(B)FILES TO SUBMIT
(SOURCE, PS, and PDF)
You
only need to submit the pdf file for your manuscript and the signed
copyright form
Naming
Scheme of All Files -- Please name all your files
to be submitted with your Paper IDENTIFIER Number and the LEAD (first)
author's last name in all lower case letters (for example:
ipsn6789-smith.pdf or ipsn6789-smith.doc)
(C)PAGES SIZE
& PAGE BREAKS
Submissions
that do not conform to the ACM SIG standards, templates, and formats will
be returned to the author for corrections and/or alterations. The page size
for this ACM publication is US Letter (8-1/2x11 inches). Be sure that there
are no bad page or column breaks--Meaning no widows (last line of a paragraph
at the top of a column). If this happens either tighten the previous column
or force a line over. Section and Sub-section heads should remain with
at least 2 lines of body text when near the end of a page or column.
(D)FIGURES OR
IMAGES
Authors
with color figures: authors please be aware your figures are
printing in black and white (grayscale) in the body pages of print version
proceedings. We suggest you print your paper to a black/white printer (or
black-white version) to be sure that the tones, screening, images reproduce
well in black and white (also for ACM DL users accessing your paper
online). Your images will and may appear in color on your electronic
submissions for inclusion on CD or DVD proceedings, and will appear in
color in the ACM Portal (digital library).
Resolution: We
recommend images to be at least 300 or 600 dpi for quality reproduction and
saved as .tif images.
TIF
(EPS) vs JPG (JPEG) images: TIFs were (and should be
created) created for pre-press applications where quality takes priority
over file size. While TIFs can be compressed (LZW compression option when
saving out of Photoshop, for example), no image data is lost, thus ensuring
maximum quality. JPEG was designed as a compressed image format designed to
keep the file size small which makes it ideal for use in web graphics. To
do this, the JPEG format actually deletes image data from the image. The
higher the level of compression, the more data is removed. This is referred
to as a lossy compression system. On a printout, the removed data tends to
show up as blocky areas of a solid color. At higher resolutions (a minimum
of 200 dpi), there's usually enough data in the JPEG file for the
compression artifacts to be very noticeable.
Rules/Lines: We
recommend for quality reproduction of rules in your graphs, tables or
charts, that the rules are at least a 0.5 pt. and black. Finer lines and
points than this will not reproduce well, even if you can see them on your
laser printed hardcopy when checked -- bear in mind that your laser
printers have a far lower resolution than the imagesetters that will be
used.
Fonts: If
your figure uses custom or any non-standard font, the characters may appear
differently when printed in the proceedings. Remember to check your figure
creation that all fonts are embedded or included in the figure correctly.
Transparencies: If a
figure or image is assembled from multiple images, the images must be
embedded, layers flattened or grouped together properly in the file, not
lined. Transparencies should also be flattened.
(E)PAGE NUMBERS,
HEADERS AND FOOTERS
Your
final submission SHOULD NOT contain any footer or copyright string
information in the footer area, headers or page numbers (the copyright strips
do need to be included in the correct position at the bottom of the first
column on the first page, see samples and templates). The papers will be
paginated in a determined order by the chairs and added to the bottom upon
finalization.
(F)U.S. GOVERNMENT
EMPLOYEES OR CONTRACTORS
U.S.
Government employees or contractors please contact Dimitrios
Lymberopoulos at dlymper@microsoft.com for the correct copyright statement and
information for your submission. You will need to supply us the name of
each author, their affiliations, and which program (word or latex) you are
using to produce your submission to receive the proper copyright statement
and information (or class file).
FOR WORD USERS
Please
download the template from the ACM website: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
Name
your .doc file using your IPSN Paper # with the lead (first) author's last
name (example: ipsn6789-weaver.doc / ipsn6789-weaver.pdf). Be sure to
format your document for American Letter (8-1/2x11). Please check that your
submission adheres to the set page limit for your type of submission. See
the email with notification of acceptance and formatting instructions for
your paper id#, and link to submit your paper.
Insert
the ACM copyright statement (IPSN-blurb.txt,
right click and download to cut and paste into your paper). This statement
should appear in 8 pt. Times New Roman, justified text, with IPSN'10
italicized. See the attached pdf as an example: IPSN-blurb.pdf
FOR LaTEX USERS
Please use
this specified class file -- sig-alternate class
file along with the supplied Latex Templates
and sample files at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html use
OPTION 2) The class file along with the following three lines in your .tex
document after \begin{document} will produce the correct ACM
copyright statement and conference info for the bottom/left of the first
page:
\conferenceinfo{IPSN'10,} {April 12--16,
2010, Stockholm, Sweden.}
\CopyrightYear{2010}
\crdata{978-1-60558-955-8/10/04}
LaTex
user, you MUST use Type 1 fonts for your submission, for help see: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/sigfaq.htm#a14 for
help. If you still have difficulty check with your system administrator.
PDF LaTex can be used to create a pdf file for your submission, but all
fonts MUST be embedded. If all the fonts are not embedded in the pdf you
submit, we will distill the mandatory PS
file that is submitted. Be sure to see
the recommendations for your figures and images above (item #C).
Please
include all text (including references from the .bbl file) into one
complete .tex document. We do not want a directory of multiple files, only
one .tex file with all text from your submission. We do not need the
figures. We do NOT recompile your submission, we are only using the one
(single-complete) source file to extract text and data that we need to
complete the metadata for the ACM digital library.
Name
your .tex and .ps file using your IPSN Paper # with the lead (first)
author's last name (example: ipsn6789-weaver.tex / ipsn6789-weaver.pdf and
.ps). Be sure to format your document for American Letter (8-1/2x11).
Please check that your submission adheres to the set page limit for your
type of submission. See the email with notification of acceptance and formatting
instructions for your paper id#, and link to submit your paper.
QUESTIONS
If you still have questions or problems
please contact Dimitrios Lymberopoulos at dlymper@microsoft.com. Thank you again
for participating in this conference and we look forward to receiving your
materials on a timely basis.
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