PPPJ 2008 Author Instructions for CRC production

Dear  Author,

Thank you for participating in the PPPJ 2008 Conference Proceedings. Please find below the formatting and submission instructions for your regular full papers to the proceedings, the required fields, and how and where to submit your signed ACM Copyright or Permission 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 which conforms to ACM specifications. Your electronic submission is due on or before. Your page limit is set by the category your submission has been selected for:

Regular Full Papers 10 Page Limit

Short Papers 6 Page Limit


NOTES TO ALL AUTHORS: The following sections in all of the ACM templates are mandatory sections and should be filled in properly by the authors:

Categories & Subject Descriptors: (the address for the ACM Computing Classification Scheme is: http://www.acm.org/class/1998/ )

General Terms: This section is limited to the following 16 terms: Algorithms, Management, Measurement, Documentation, Performance, Design, Economics, Reliability, Experimentation, Security, Human Factors, Standardization, Languages, Theory, Legal Aspects, Verification.

Keywords: This section is your choice of terms you would like to be indexed by.

Title of Your Submission Should be Initial Caps: Meaning First Letter of the Main Words Should be Made Capital Letters.

Instructions for PS->PDF Distilling

Please take notice that the .ps files resulting from the compilation of your document must be distilled into a .pdf file conformant to the ACM settings that will be used for the print, cd and/or the digital library.
For ACM distilling settings, please download the following job option settings: ACM.joboptions (right click and choose save target as) to your Program Files, Adobe, Acrobat, Distillr, Settings folder and name as -- ACM.joboptions Then use this setting when you create/distill your new pdf.

  1. Your actual source files are needed (.tex, .eps, .png, etc.), to extract text and data to produce information and metadata for ACM's digital library, and to ensure conformance with ACM standards. Please follow instructions regarding LaTex provided below.
  2. Submissions that do not conform to the ACM standards and formats will be returned to the author for corrections and/or alterations. Also 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. Also, be sure that your .pdf file is formatted for Letter paper.
  3. Be sure that the .pdf file generated has all its fonts embedded in the file itself. Otherwise, printing will not appear correctly.
  4. Authors with color figures, authors please be aware your M figures are printing in black and white (grayscale) in the body pages of the 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. Your images may appear in color on your electronic submissions and will appear in color in the ACM digital library. We recommend images to be at least 300 or 600 dpi for quality reproduction.
  5. U.S. Government employees please contact Luís Veiga for the correct copyright statement for your submission, kindly inform us of the authors, their affiliations, and which program you are using to produce your submission to receive the proper copyright statement.

Follow instructions according to the program you will be using to prepare your submission for the proceedings:

LaTEX Instructions

  1. Please use sig-alternate class file or the class file regular sig class file from the ACM website ( http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html ).
    The first class file follows a tighter format. Both of them automatically insert the ACM copyright statement and conference info that is needed)].
  2. Insert the following three lines in your .tex document after \begin{document} to produce the correct copyright statement and info:

    \conferenceinfo{PPPJ 2008,} {September 9--11, 2008, Modena, Italy.}
    \CopyrightYear{2008}
    \crdata{978-1-60558-223-8/08/0009}

 

or alternatively, if the complete text of the copyright strip does not appear (in some templates), insert the full info as:

 

 

\conferenceinfo{\small{Permission to make digital or hard copies of
all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted
without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for
profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and
the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise,
to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists,
requires prior specific permission and/or a
fee.\\}}{\emph{PPPJ 2008}, September 9--11, 2008, Modena, Italy.
\\Copyright 2008 ACM 978-1-60558-223-8/08/0009...\$5.00}


***Other hints on saving space on your shorter page limit submissions, click here.

  1. LaTex user, please use Type 1 fonts for your document, 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. Recall that .ps files must be distilled according to the ACM pdf requirements for use for printing and the ACM digital library.
  2. Please include all text (including references from the .bbl file) into one complete .tex document. We do not want a directory with multiple text files, just one .tex file with all the text from your submission.
  3. Please include all files with figures (e.g., .eps, .png, etc.).
  4. Please create a .zip file with your .tex document and figure files.
  5. Name your .tex, .zip and .pdf files using your lead author's last name and initials (example: for John C. Weaver, weaverjc.tex / weaverjc.zip / weaverjc.pdf).
  6. Be sure to format your document for Letter paper. Please check that your submission adheres to the set page limit for your type of submission (see above).
  7. You need to submit your paper, .zip (including .tex and figures) and .pdf files before July 13th, 2007.

Copyright Release Form

ACM requires your original signature on a hardcopy of the copyright release form. The form itself can be downloaded here or alternatively, use the html version avaiable from ACM here.

The title, authors and publication must be filled in at the top and signed at the bottom. Be sure that your title on the form matches the title on your submission, or a new form will be requested. Only one form is needed, with the lead or contact author's original signature, and must be sent on or before July 13th, 2007 to:

Luís Veiga
INESC-ID Lisboa
Rua Alves Redol N.º 9
Sala 607
1000-029 Lisboa
Portugal

FAX: +351-[0]21 314 58 43.

ACM Copyright Form, right click to download
HTML version at ACM of the ACM Copyright Form

Questions

If you still have questions or problems please contact myself, by phone: +351 - 21 310 0292, mobile phone: +351 - 96 205 5139 or via email at:

luis.veiga@inesc-id.pt with the conference name (PPPJ 2008) in the subject line.

Thank you again for having submitted your paper and participating in this conference. I look forward to receiving your materials on a timely basis.

Best regards,
Luís Veiga
Proceedings Coordinator

 

Do not forget:

Please provide your paper in pdf format

Please provide your .zip file containing sources (containing .tex file and figure files):