Paper Submissions

Papers should contain significant technical content to be accepted. No paper will be accepted for publication without an accompanying presentation at the conference. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings and may also be available on the website pending author approval.

Papers should be 8-12 pages in length (9 point, two columns) and received by June 5, 2000. Formatting details can be found on the conference web site. Final camera-ready papers not meeting formatting guidelines will not be accepted for publication in the proceedings. Paper submissions will be accepted in Microsoft Word, postscript or PDF, electronic submission only. Templates for common editors will also be available from the conference web site. Papers can be transferred by anonymous ftp to endo.sandia.gov (place in directory pub/incoming/pknupp/9imr) or can be mailed to pknupp@sandia.gov.

Files transferred via anonymous ftp should be named as follows, to avoid collisions on the ftp site: names should start with the authors last name, followed by a hyphen, followed by the last four digits of the author's phone number. Author's should send email to Patrick Knupp, (pknupp@sandia.gov) with the paper title and file name immediately after placing it on the site.

Questions regarding paper submission should be addressed to Alla Sheffer or Patrick Knupp, Technical Papers Co-Chairs

Patrick Knupp, Paper Submission
Sandia National Laboratories
PO Box 5800, MS0847
Albuquerque, NM 87185
Phone: (505) 284-4565
Fax: (505) 844-9297
E-Mail: pknupp@sandia.gov

Alla Sheffer, Technical Papers Co-Chair
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
1304 W. Springfield Ave, MS258
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: 217-244-0360
E-mail: sheffa@cse.uiuc.edu

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If you do not wish to use the Templates provided, you must follow these guidlines.

Margins:

• 1" margins, left, right, top
• 1.25" margin on the bottom

Fonts:

• Choose either Sans Serif or Times-Roman (Sans Serif preferred).
• 9 pt font for the text

Headings:

• Title: 12 pt bold, centered 1.5" from the top of the first page
  
• Authors: 11 pt (no bold), centered with contact information (address and email) three blank lines before and after
• Subheadings: 10 pt bold, flush left, two blank spaces before and after

Paragraph spacing:

• 9 pt separation between paragraphs
• no paragraph indentation

Abstract:

• Inline bold, 10 pt "Abstract." followed by approximately 100 word summary of the paper.
• Text width: 6"

Keyword list:

• Flush left, inline, bold 10 pt "Keywords." followed by 5-6 key word listings

PROCEEDINGS AND JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE

The conference proceedings will be published by Sandia National Laboratories and distributed at the Roundtable. In addition, papers of exceptionally high quality will be published in a special issue of a widely-circulated journal.