CAMERA
READY
INSTRUCTIONS
Thank you for participating in the IPSN'11 Conference
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.
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
that conforms to ACM specifications. Your electronic submission is due
on or before March 1, 2011. This page will be updated with
information of how and where to submit the camera-ready version of your
paper.
The page limit for a full paper is 12 pages. The
page limit for demo and poster abstracts is 2 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 of MANDATORY SECTIONS 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 author's 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.
- 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/
- 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.
- Keywords: This section is your choice of
terms you would like to be indexed by and is mandatory on the
submission page, but is 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.
(B)FILES TO SUBMIT
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). Posters and Demos should use the paper identifier
numbers sent by the poster/demo chairs upon acceptance, and should use
the prefix "ipsnDemo" or "ipsnPoster" (for example:
ipsnDemo14-smith.pdf).
(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. This means that the paper should contain 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 that 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
Andreas Terzis at terzis@cs.jhu.edu
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#.
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'11
italicized.
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 focument after \begin{document} will produce the correct ACM
copyright statement and conference info for the bottom/left of the
first page:
\conferenceinfo{IPSN'11,} {April 12--14, 2011, Chicago,
Illinois.}
\CopyrightYear{2011}
\crdata{978-1-4503-0512-9/11/04}
LaTex users 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 #D).
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.
Questions
If you have questions or problems please contact Andreas
Terzis at terzis@cs.jhu.edu.
Thank you again for participating in this conference and we look
forward to receiving your materials on a timely basis.
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