Your submitted electronic manuscript should be printable by us on
8 1/2" x 11" paper. Proceedings templates are available online in Word,
WordPerfect, FrameMaker and LaTex. and must be used. The ACM proceedings
format specifications described here. Please adhere
strictly to these specifications, or we may not be able to put your paper in
the proceedings.
Please note: It is of particular importance that you leave
sufficient space in the lower left corner of the first column on the first page
to fill in the copyright information, which must be included in your paper. Do
not use page numbers. Please contact Lisa Tolles-Efinger at Sheridan Printing (Phone: 1-908-213-8988 Email:typedept@fast.net)
for any issues concerning proceedings publication.
There is a 10-page maximum on your paper. If you wish to have additional
pages, you may have up to 2 additional pages at a cost of $250 per page. Please
make your check payable to the Sheridan Printing Company and send it with your
copyright form to the Sheridan Printing Company (address below). If your
electronically submitted paper exceeds 10 pages and by February 20 no check has
arrived, your paper may not appear in the proceedings.
All accepted papers must be submitted in electronic form. The
detailed instructions about
electronic submission on the sigact server is available here. Also carefully
read the Sheridan Printing Company���s
additional instructions here.
LaTex users need to use type 1 fonts, for additional help see here. All authors must insert the ACM
copyright statement and conference information on the bottom/left of the first
page. This is covered in the instructions here.
Electronic
submission of accepted papers must be completed by 5:59
pm EST February 20, 2002 to be included in the final proceedings,. Please note that there is a test print facility to
determine if your paper is likely printable. (Authors whose submitted papers
previously suffered printing problems are cautioned to test print their papers
at a number of printers.)
The ACM Copyright Form is
available online.
The ACM copyright form must be signed. I caution you that ACM will not publish
any paper that is not accompanied by a signed copyright form. In those cases
where there is more than one author per paper, the first-named (assumed senior)
author only must sign. Please note that the paper
title must match exactly on the form and your submission, or ACM will demand a
new signed form. Please federal express or mail your signed hardcopy
copyright form (and if needed, your check for additional pages, as described
above) to: Attention:STOC2002 Conference Proceedings, Sheridan Printing Company,
1425 Third Avenue, Alpha, New Jersey, 08865-4695 (phone: (908) 454-0700) so that it is received by us by no
later than February 20, 2002. Alternatively, you can fax
the ACM copyright form to 1-908-454-2554.
The contact person for this conference is
You may contact this person with questions about the electronic submissions process when other avenues fail.
This person is a volunteer, so please only contact him/her for problems not handled by the submissions server or this document. Do not contact the conference chair or program committee chair, as they do not have any control over the electronic submission process (other than to set guidelines).
Please do not ask the contact person to help you with system-specific problems, such as those with LaTeX, PostScript(tm), or your mailer. Such questions are best addressed to your system administrator or support staff.
This is a working document describing the electronic submission procedure for STOC2002. The procedures and policies described herein may change slightly as we encounter problems or develop new solutions. (Yes, the software has been used for a number of prior conferences, but it's gone through a recent update, and it's maintained informally by unpaid, overworked, researchers.)
The software now maintains a list of all users which is then stored on a remote site in case of serious problems (believe it or not, we've had systems lose their mail capability and experience serious 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 problems/changes. There is no penalty for registering a submission that you do not send, nor for submitting and then withdrawing.
The basic steps in electronic mail submission are as follows. These steps are discussed further in the section entitled Submitting via email.
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 in PostScript format). 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 PostScript submission attached. The server returns
information about the success of the submission.REVISE
message with a revised version of your submission. (This must be done
before the submission deadline.) The server returns information about the
success of the revision.Details about the commands can be found below, in the section entitled Submitting via Email.
Many of you have used a variant of this server for past conferences (FOCS, STOC, SODA, etc.). However, we've recently made some changes that you might want to note.
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If you use another mechanism for generating PostScript, please contact your technical support people.
srt@cs.unt.edu) if
you generate your PostScript(tm) with FrameMaker. 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 electronic submission process is an experiment
and, as such, is not expected to work perfectly (yes, even after two years).
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 epubs@sigact.acm.org (the
SIGACT Electronic Publishing board). Questions about electronic submissions
should be directed to srt@cs.unt.edu.
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For this year, we will accept papers only in PostScript(tm) format via electronic mail. We will not accept submissions via ftp. We will not accept submissions in hardcopy. All submissions of final papers for the STOC2002 proceedings must be in electronic form. They must be in printable PostScript(tm) form and arrive by February 20, 2002, 17:59 EST.
Unprintable PostScript(tm) and late submissions will not appear in the STOC2002 proceedings. PostScript submissions formatted for paper size other than 8.5 x 11 inch paper (US Letter), 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.
You may revise or withdraw your paper after submitting it. However, revisions must be received by the deadline. Withdrawals before the deadline can be done using the electronic submissions system. Withdrawals after the deadline will need to be arranged through the program chair John Reif.
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.
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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 a week before February 20, 2002 (that is, test the system before February 13).
For those unsure of the printability of their PostScript(tm), we do provide a test-printing service described below. The service may be terminated at February 19 (that is, twenty-four hours prior to the submission deadline).
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To submit via electronic mail, send electronic
mail to stoc02@sigact.acm.org
with one of the following subjects. The submission server will send you a reply
indicating the disposition of your request.
Note that, due to recent changes to the server, the server will return slightly different messages for some of these commands.
HELPRequest help on the electronic submission process. You will receive this document (or a variant) in response.
REGISTERInform the server that you plan to submit a paper electronically. This is only used for electronic submissions -- you do not need to register if you are submitting printed copies of your papers.
The body of a REGISTER message should take the form
authors: "and"-separated list of authors
title: title of document
contact: e-mail address
notes: eligible for best student paper
Note that the "notes" field is currently only used to indicate eligibility for the best student paper award. Other notes will most likely be ignored.
For examples,
% mail stoc02@sigact.acm.org
Subject: REGISTER
authors: Theorist T. Theoretician
title: Random Sampling
contact: theorist@theory.edu
notes: eligible for best paper
^D
The server will return a name to use to refer to your submission (called the filename or key in the sections below).
From: stoc02@sigact.acm.org Thu Sep 8 19:18:41 1994To: theorist@theory.edu
Subject: REGISTER
You should use the file name "theorist.1234.ps" for submitting the
following paper:
authors: Theorist T. Theoretician title: Random Sampling contact: theorist@theory.edu notes: eligible for best paper receipt:
TEST REGISTERLike REGISTER,
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.).
SUBMIT filenameSubmit (or revise) a paper. The body of the message should be the PostScript(tm) file. The server will acknowledge the submission. The acknowledgement will include an MD5-generated receipt for the submission, as well as basic information on the file so that you can verify that it arrived "safely". The basic information includes sizes (in bytes), checksum, first and last ten lines of the file.
For example,
% mail stoc02@sigact.acm.org
Subject: SUBMIT theorist.1234.ps
insert postscript file into main body of message
^D
From: stoc02@sigact.acm.org Thu Sep 8 19:18:41 1994To: theorist@theory.edu
Subject: Submission of theorist.1234.ps received.
Your paper with key theorist.1234.ps was received on Sep 8 19:27.It is 404918 bytes long.
Its checksum is 23036. The receipt is: abcba4232hgada43232323 It does not seem to generate any PostScript(tm) errors.
The first ten lines of your file are:
...
The last ten lines of your file are:
...
REVISE filenameRevise a previously submitted paper. The body of
the message should be the PostScript(tm) file. The server will confirm this
revision with the contact person for the paper (as well as the sender of the SUBMIT message).
For example,
% mail stoc02@sigact.acm.org
Subject: REVISE theorist.1234.ps
insert postscript file into main body of message
^D
From: stoc02@sigact.acm.org Thu Sep 8 19:18:41 1994To: theorist@theory.edu
Subject: Revised version of theorist.1234.ps received.
A revised version of your STOC2002 submission with key
theorist.1234.pswas received on
Thu Sep 8 19:43:33 EDT 1994
Please send electronic mail to Steve Tate if you
did not submit a revised version.
The server will also acknowledge the revision, as above.
WITHDRAW filenameWithdraw a previously submitted paper. The server will confirm this withdrawal with the contact person for the paper.
For example,
% mail stoc02@sigact.acm.org
Subject: WITHDRAW theorist.1234.ps
^D
From: stoc02@sigact.acm.org Thu Sep 8 19:18:41 1994To: theorist@theory.edu
Subject: theorist.1234.ps withdrawn.
Your STOC2002 submission with key
theorist.1234.pswas withdrawn on
Thu Sep 8 19:43:33 EDT 1994
Please send electronic mail to Steve Tate if you
did not withdraw your paper.
TESTPRINTTest printing of the PostScript(tm) file contained in the body of the message. The server will return a message regarding the success or failure of the printing process. The server does not test for full compliance with the submission guidelines, such as length, page size, etc. Hence, a submission may pass this test and still be rejected without consideration of its merits.
We have also found that some PostScript(tm) successfully passes through the testing process, but is not printable. For example, FrameMaker(tm) generates PostScript(tm) that is only printable on a particular size of paper (if generated for A4, it will not print on US Letter, and vice versa). All papers must be generated for US Letter paper.
Here is an example of the use of TESTPRINT
% mail stoc02@sigact.acm.org
Subject: TESTPRINT
insert postscript file into main body of message
^D
From: stoc02@sigact.acm.org Thu Sep 8 19:18:41 1994To: theorist@theory.edu
Subject: TESTPRINT
The file you sent failed with the following PostScript(tm) errors:
...
STATUS filenameCheck on the status of an electronic submission. This status refers only to its existence and printability, not to it's status in the refereeing process.
For example,
% mail stoc02@sigact.acm.org
Subject: STATUS theorist.1234.ps
^D
From: stoc02@sigact.acm.org Thu Sep 8 19:18:41 1994To: theorist@theory.edu
Subject: STATUS theorist.1234.ps
Information on paper with
key: theorist.1234.ps authors: Theorist T. Theoretician title: Random Sampling contact: theorist@theory.edu notes: eligible for best paper receipt: abcba4232hgada43232323 It is 404918 bytes long.
Its checksum is 23036. It does not seem to generate any PostScript(tm) 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 to STOC2002. The primary reason for this decision is that the SIGACT 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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The board maintains a WWW page and can be contacted via e-mail at epubs@sigact.acm.org.
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PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. FrameMaker is a registered trademark of Frame Technology Corporation.