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Final paper instructions

Submitting the final paper

To submit your final papers:

  • Log in to the submission site for MMSys or MoVid (you can use the login URL from previous communication)
  • Click on your accepted paper
  • Click on the edit button
  • You see Final copy PDF file and an upload botton

 

Preparing the final paper

Please read the instructions below. Submissions that do not conform to the ACM SIG standards, specifications, guidelines, and formats will be returned to the author for corrections.

Submission Deadlines and Preparation of Copy

All ACM SIG sponsored proceedings will be included in the ACM Digital Library as well as prepared for electronic publication. All papers for the conference must be submitted in an electronic format which conforms to ACM SIG specifications and formats. The deadline for submitting your final paper is December 15, 2011.

Page limits

Full papers can be up to 12 pages long.
Short papers, dataset papers and demo papers can be up to 6 pages long.
MoVid papers can be up to 6 pages long.

Mandatory information

The following information must be specified completely and correctly in HotCRP:

  • Paper Title
  • Author's complete names (incl. complete first names)
  • Every author's email address
  • Every author's affiliation
  • Abstract

Formatting rules

MMSys papers use the ACM SIG Proceedings Format. You can find the latest templates on the ACM's website.

The copyright statement at the bottom of the left column on the first page must be the following text in 8pt font:

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, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee.
MMSys’12, February 22-24, 2012, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Copyright 2012 ACM 978-1-4503-1131-1/12/02...$10.00.

You must obey some additional rules for the final paper:

  • Page size must be US Letter (width 21.591cm, height 27.9414cm)
  • You must use Type-1 fonts for your submission. Do not use Type-3 fonts.
  • Avoid orphan lines: no single lines of body text at the bottom or top of a column, no headings without at least two lines of body text at the bottom of a column
  • Ensure that figures are readable when printed on grayscale printers
  • Avoid page numbering, headers and footers
  • Create a PDF file that complies with these basic rules of the ACM Digital Library:
    • Create a PDF that is compatible with Acrobat 5.0 (PDF1.4).
    • Make sure that all fonts are embedded.
    • Prevent downsampling of images.
    • Optimize the PDF.

Question

Please send any question to Carsten Griwodz .