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ISAAC'00 accepts electronic submissions via e-mail following the procedures and policies developed by the SIGACT Electronic Publishing Board, and successfully used in other conference such as FOCS, ESA, STOC, SODA, PODS, ...
Note: This is an instruction describing the electronic e-mail submission procedure for ISAAC'00. ISAAC'00 also accepts electronic web submission, whose instruction can be obtained from http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/isaac00. The instructions described herein are tentative and subject to change as we encounter new problems and implement new solutions. Detailed messages will be posted here in case of any change and emergency. The most current version of this instruction is recommended to be downloaded before making a submission.
The software now maintains a list of all users that is simultaneously stored on a remote site to deal with serious problems (believe it or not, we had systems lose their mail capability and experience disk crashes). We recommend that you test/use the system at least one week in advance of the conference, so that we can notify you of any last moment problems/changes. There is no penalty for registering a submission that you do not send, nor for submitting and then withdrawing.
Many of you have used a variant of this server for past conferences (FOCS, STOC, SODA, etc.). However, we have made some changes that you should be aware of.
Thus you must format your submission to be printable on US letter paper (8.5 by 11 inch). The preferred resolution is 300 dpi. If you are in the US then most likely this is the default on your system but please check whether any of the warnings below apply to you.
dvips -P modern
filename
letterpaper to \documentclass
should do the trick. (That is, your document should start
with, eg, \documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{article}
).
Note however that the above only gives you the proper margins: dvips
might still generate the wrong PostScript if dvips was
hacked so that it uses the option "-t a4" as
default. In this case use
dvips -P modern
-t letter filename This should
make your PostScript suitable for a letter size printer.
However this will cause the document to be "nonconforming"
and can cause it not to print on certain a4 printers. This
is really a last resort option.
We have a Postscript testing program. Unfortunately it can make both types of errors: it might fail to catch unprintable files and it might warn against perfectly printable ones. We are working on this issue.
If you use another mechanism for generating PostScript or if the above recipes do not work for you, please contact the technical support people on your installation. We can not help you further with this issue. However we would like to hear if the impossibility of generating letter size PostScript prevented you from electronic e-mail submission.
SIGACT has appointed an Electronic Publishing Board to investigate and develop guidelines and mechanisms for electronic submission and dissemination of STOC and FOCS proceedings and other SIGACT and theoretical publications. The program committee of ISAAC'00 is cooperating with the Electronic Publishing Board in testing these procedures for ISAAC'00.
The electronic e-mail submission process is an experiment and, as
such, is not expected to work perfectly. While the
current policies, as detailed in the following paragraphs, are
relatively finalized, we expect to make some further changes. If you
have comments on the policies, feel free to send electronic mail to
samr@cs.dartmouth.edu (Samuel A. Rebelsky, the contact person for
the SIGACT Electronic Publishing board). Questions about
electronic e-mail submissions should be directed to
isaac-adm@iis.sinica.edu.tw .
This information is available through:
HELP as the subject of the message, and
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Via electronic mail, we will accept papers in PostScript(tm) format only. All electronic submissions must be in printable PostScript(tm) form and arrive by 23:59 May 31, 2000. This is the same as the hardcopy deadline.
Unprintable PostScript(tm) and late submissions will be rejected. PostScript submissions formatted for paper size other than 8.5 x 11 inch paper, or with pages in nonascending order, also risk rejection without consideration of their merits. The committee accepts no responsibility for errors due to problems with the system, although we will do our best to make sure that no such problems occur. We request that you submit your paper as early as possible.
We will accept revisions for a paper submitted at least forty-eight hours in advance of the deadline. This policy is not intended to suggest that authors should revise their work, but simply to encourage authors to submit papers early. However, revisions must also be received by the deadline. That is, the initial version must be received by 23:59 May 29, 2000 and the revised version must be received by 23:59 May 31, 2000.
Because of copyright restrictions, we request that authors only use standard LaserWriter fonts (e.g., Times, Helvetica, Symbol) or public domain fonts (e.g., the Computer Modern Fonts) in their preliminary submissions. For final submissions, it should be possible to use copyrighted fonts.
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Because we assume no responsibility for technical problems or problems with PostScript(tm), we strongly encourage prospective users of the system to test both the submission procedures and the printability of their PostScript(tm). We suggest testing the submission procedures by 23:59 May 29, 2000.
For those unsure of the printability of their PostScript(tm), read about the test printing service described below. The service will be terminated at 23:59 May 30, 2000 (twenty-four hours prior to the submission deadline).
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isaac00@iis.sinica.edu.tw with one of the following
subjects. The submission server will send you a reply indicating the
disposition of your request.The basic steps in electronic mail submission are as follows. These steps are discussed further in the paragraphs below.
TESTPRINT
feature. TEST REGISTER message to the
server.
The server returns a name to use for testing your file.SUBMIT message with your test file (your
paper).
The server returns information about the success of the test file.REGISTER message
to the server.
The server returns a name to use for your submission.SUBMIT message
with your actual submission. This is the file that will be
eventually forwarded to the program committee, unless you
withdraw or revise it as explained below.
The server returns information about the success of the submission.More details about the commands follows. Note that, due to recent changes to the server, the server will return slightly different messages for some of these commands.
SUBJECT: HELP
SUBJECT: REGISTER
The body of a REGISTER message should take the form
authors: "and"-separated list of authors title: title of document (Must type everything in one line) contact: e-mail address notes: Category: algorithms and data structure.
Continuation lines if needed should start with a blank.
The "notes" field is currently used to indicate the main category of the submitted paper. Other notes will most likely be ignored. The field may be left blank. Categoy can be one of the following ten: (1) Algorithms and Data Structures, (2) Approximation and Randomized Algorithms, (3) Automata and Formal Languages, (4) Combinatorial Optimization, (5) Computational Biology, (6) Computational Geometry, (7) Computational Learning Theory, (8) Cryptography and Complexity Theory, (9) Graph Drawing and Algorithms, (10) Parallel and Distributed Algorithms. For examples,
% mail isaac00@iis.sinica.edu.tw Subject: REGISTER authors: Theorist T. Theoretician and Super S. Supervisor title: Random Sampling (Must type everything in one line) contact: theorist@theory.edu notes: category: Algorithms and Data Structures ^D
The server will return a name to use to refer to your submission (called the filename or key in the sections below).
From: isaac00@iis.sinica.edu.tw To: theorist@theory.edu Subject: REGISTER You should use the file name "theorist.randomsampling.ps" for submitting the following paper: authors: Theorist T. Theoretician and Super S. Supervisor title: Random Sampling (Must type everything in one line) contact: theorist@theory.edu notes: eligible for best student paper award receipt:
SUBJECT: TEST REGISTERREGISTER, but the
server returns a file name to use for testing (you can use
this test file name with all the messages below). You may (but need not)
specify the information on the paper (contact, title, etc.).
SUBJECT: SUBMIT filenameFor example,
% mail isaac00@iis.sinica.edu.tw Subject: SUBMIT theorist.randomsampling.ps insert PostScript file into main body of message ^D From: isaac00@iis.sinica.edu.tw To: theorist@theory.edu Subject: Submission of theorist.randomsampling.ps received. Your paper with key theorist.randomsampling.ps was received on Sep 8 19:27. It is 404918 bytes long. Its checksum (calculated by the program below) is 23036. The receipt is: abcba4232hgada43232323 It does not seem to generate any PostScript errors. Checksum program: ... The first ten lines of your file are: ... The last ten lines of your file are: ...
SUBJECT: REVISE filenameREVISE message). For example,
% mail isaac00@iis.sinica.edu.tw Subject: REVISE theorist.randomsampling.ps insert PostScript file into main body of message ^D From: isaac00@iis.sinica.edu.tw To: theorist@theory.edu Subject: Revised version of theorist.randomsampling.ps received. A revised version of your ISAAC'00 submission with key theorist.randomsampling.ps was received on Sun Feb 1 19:43:33 1998 Please send electronic mail to ... if you did not submit a revised version.
The server will also acknowledge the revision, as above.
SUBJECT: WITHDRAW filenameFor example,
% mail isaac00@iis.sinica.edu.tw Subject: WITHDRAW theorist.randomsampling.ps ^D From: isaac00@iis.sinica.edu.tw To: theorist@theory.edu Subject: theorist.randomsampling.ps withdrawn. Your ISAAC'00 submission with key theorist.randomsampling.ps was withdrawn on Ton Feb 2 19:43:33 1998 Please send electronic mail to ... if you did not withdraw your paper.
SUBJECT: TESTPRINTWe have also found that some PostScript successfully passes through the testing process, but is not actually printable on US Letter size paper. Such papers will be rejected. Please read carefully the PostScript related notes.
Here is an example of the use of TESTPRINT
% mail isaac00@iis.sinica.edu.tw Subject: TESTPRINT insert PostScript file into main body of message ^D From: isaac00@iis.sinica.edu.tw To: theorist@theory.edu Subject: TESTPRINT The file you sent failed with the following PostScript errors: ...
SUBJECT: STATUS filenameFor example,
% mail isaac00@iis.sinica.edu.tw Subject: STATUS theorist.randomsampling.ps ^D From: isaac00@iis.sinica.edu.tw To: theorist@theory.edu Subject: STATUS theorist.randomsampling.ps Information on paper with key: theorist.randomsampling.ps authors: Theorist T. Theoretician and Super S. Supervisor title: Random Sampling contact: theorist@theory.edu notes: eligible for best student paper award receipt: abcba4232hgada43232323 It is 404918 bytes long. Its checksum is 23036. It does not seem to generate any PostScript errors. The first ten lines of your file are: ... The last ten lines of your file are: ...
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As with the hardcopy submission process, copies of electronically-submitted papers will only be read by members of the program committee and selected reviewers.
We do not plan to include a mechanism for encryption/decryption of submissions during the first year of operation. The primary reason for this decision is that the Computer Science community is honorable. Additionally, it is unlikely that we can provide sufficiently general cross-platform software that will not hinder the refereeing process.
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We expect that all authors (both those who initially submit printed copies and those who submit electronically) will be asked to submit both hardcopy and electronic copies of the final versions of their papers in the ACM standard format (which is currently being developed), which will accommodate both LaTeX and traditional word-processors using ACM-supplied style files.
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