PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR DAMP'12 ABSTRACTS
POSTED & REVISED ON 10/26 @ 2:25 PM (NY time)

Dear Accepted/Invited Author,

Thank you for participating in the DAMP'12 Workshop and contributing to the Proceedings. This web page will acquaint you to the formatting and submission instructions for the FINAL VERSION of your keynote abstract, to the proceedings and the ACM DL, the required fields, and how and where to complete your signed ACM Copyright or Permission-Release forms.

Click here if you are NOT contributing to DAMP'12.

Please read the whole page. Submissions that do not conform to the ACM SIGPLAN standards, specifications, guidelines, and formats will be returned to the author for corrections and/or alterations.

Submission Deadlines and Preparation of Copy

All ACM SIG sponsored proceedings will be included in the ACM Digital Library as well as prepared for printed and/or electronic publication. All papers for the conference must be submitted in an electronic format which conforms to ACM SIG specifications and formats. Your electronic submission is due on or before November 27th. Please read the following, this is important to ensure the inclusion of your paper, poster, abstract, or talk in the proceedings and the ACM Digital Library (Portal).

1. PAGE LIMITS
Please submit as early as possible if you are able to do so. Your page limit is set by the category your submission has been selected for:

2. MANDATORY FIELDS TO BE COMPLETED ON THE SUBMISSION PAGE & INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED WITHIN YOUR SUBMISSION

Make sure that every author’s affiliation is entered properly (spelling and correct affiliation name), including department or lab (if any in its appropriate field), main institution or corporate affiliation, as well as the specific location (city, state/provience, and country).

Authors with multiple affiliations: please enter them on the same line of the submission system and only list the main affiliation's location:
Example 1

Affiliations: Microsoft Research & University of Washington
Location City: Redmond
Location State: Washington
Location Country: USA

Example 2

Affiliations: Eindhoven University of Technology & Philips Research
Location City: Eindhoven
Location Country: Netherlands

Cut and paste the abstract text from your source document into this field on the submission page (not from your pdf). The abstract on the submission page is the one that will appear in ACM Digital Library.

ACM needs the references/citations in plain text (.txt with no coding). Copy and paste from your word processor into this text field.
Word Users: Please cut and paste this information into the submission page form directly from your source (.doc/docx) file, NOT from your pdf.
LaTeX Users: PLEASE DO NOT submit your BibTeX data. Instead submit the text & coding from your .bbl file created when you compile your document.

ACM Classification Sections

Your selections for these three sections are mandatory on the submission page and mandatory to be included on the first page of your submission.

ACM Classification Keywords: Make sure that your selection included on the first page of your paper after Authors' Keywords are also chosen properly on the submission page. Click here for information on the ACM Computing Classification Scheme.

General Terms: You must select one or more of the following General Terms, which must match those listed in your submission.

The best way to understand the General Terms is that they are orthogonal to the subject categories, that is, they cut across all subjects. Click here for information on the ACM General Terms.

Authors' Keywords: This section is your (author) choice of terms that you would like used to index your work. They are mandatory on the submission form but NOT on the first page of your paper or note.

(a) Colors and Black & White (Gray Scale) Print Testing. If you have any images in color, we suggest that you print your paper to a black/white printer (or black-white version) to be sure that the tones and screens used in your images or figures reproduce well in black and white. Your images will and may appear in color in the electronic proceedings, in color in the ACM Portal (digital library), but in grayscale in any print proceedings.

(b) Resolution & CYMK: We recommend images to be at least 300 or 600 dpi for quality reproduction and saved as .tif images. When creating or revising your images for inclusion in the paper, please be sure you choose CYMK and not RGB (as the color profile choice).

(c) TIF (EPS) vs JPG (JPEG) images: TIFs were (and should be created) created for pre-press applications where quality takes priority over file size. While TIFs can be compressed (LZW compression option when saving out of Photoshop, for example), no image data is lost, thus ensuring maximum quality. JPEG was designed as a compressed image format designed to keep the file size small which makes it idea for use in web graphics. To do this, the JPEG format actually deletes image data from the image. The higher the level of compression, the more data is removed. This is referred to as a lossy compression system. On a printout, the removed data tends to show up as blocky areas of a solid color. At higher resolutions (a minimum of 200 dpi), there's usually enough data in the JPEG file for the compression artifacts to be very noticeable.

(d) Rules/Lines: We recommend for quality reproduction of rules in your graphs, tables or charts, that the rules are at least a 0.5 pt. and black. Finer lines and points than this will not reproduce well, even if you can see them on your laser printed hardcopy when checked -- bear in mind that your laser printers have a far lower resolution than the imagesetters that will be used.

(e) Fonts: If your figure uses custom or any non-standard font, the characters may appear differently when printed in the proceedings. Remember to check your figure creation that all fonts are embedded or included in the figure correctly.

(f) Transparencies: If a figure or image is assembled from multiple images, the images must be embedded, layers flattened or grouped together properly in the file, not lined. Transparencies should also be flattened.

It is the contact or submitting author's responsibility to be sure if there are any acknowledgements that need to be included in the paper or abstract submission prior to submitting the final version (either as a title note or using the Acknowledgement section before the listing of the References). See page 4 of the ACM SIG sample pdf.

Please download the SIGPLAN word template from here: ACM-SIGPLAN-WORD.dot
Authors are instructed to use the 9 pt template & formatting (per the DAMP'12 chairs).

(b)

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\authorpermission
\conferenceinfo{DAMP'12,} {January 28, 2012, Philadelphia, PA, USA.}
\CopyrightYear{2012}
\copyrightdata{978-1-4503-1117-5/12/01}

& be sure to remove [preprint] from the \documentclass line.

(f)

5. AFTER YOU SUBMIT

Note: Only one form is usually needed and can be signed by the lead or contact author. A second form may be requested from co-authors depending on any US or foreign government affiliations, Sheridan and/or ACM Copyrights-Permission office will notify you if a second form is needed in any way.

6. QUESTIONS                                                   (Return to Top)

If you still have questions or problems please contact myself, by phone: 1-908-213-8988 or via email at: acm@sheridanprinting.com with the conference name (DAMP'12) in the subject line. Thank you in advance for adhering to the chairs' page limits and the set deadlines.

Sincerely,
Lisa M. Tolles
Proceedings Coordinator
Sheridan Printing Co., Inc.
phone: 1-908-213-8988