PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR ISLPED'11 PAPERS & ABSTRACTS
POSTED & REVISED ON 4/27 @ 1:45 PM EST

Dear Accepted or Invited Author,

Thank you for participating in the ISLPED'11 Conference (sponsored by IEEE & ACM SIGDA), and contributing to the Proceedings. This web page will acquaint you to the formatting and submission instructions for the FINAL VERSION of your paper or abstract to be included the proceedings, and in both the IEEE (Xplore) the ACM (Portal) Digital Libraries, the required fields, and how and where to complete your signed Copyright Release forms.

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

Submission Deadlines and Preparation of Copy

The ISLPED 2011 proceedings will be included in the IEEE and ACM Digital Libraries, 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 the following IEEE specifications and formats. Your electronic submission is due on or before Wednesday morning, May 25th, 9:00 AM (NY timezone). Please read the following, this is important to ensure the inclusion of your paper, poster, abstract, or talk in the proceedings and the Digital Libraries.

1. PAGE LIMITS
Please submit as early as possible if you are able to do so. The following page limits were set by the chairs and organizers:

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

ACM Classification Sections

The chairs and organizers want to expedite the proceedings' appearance in the ACM DL. The following ACM Classification selections are mandatory to be chosen correctly by the authors themselves on the submission page, but DO NOT have to appear on your paper (as this year the formatting is following the IEEE templates).

ACM Classification Keywords: Make sure that your selection on the submission page. Click here for info on the ACM Computing Classification Scheme.

General Terms: You must choose from these 16 terms Algorithms, Design, Documentation, Economics, Experimentation, Human Factors, Languages, Legal Aspects, Management, Measurement, Performance, Reliability, Security, Standardization, Theory, Verification. Click here for info on the ACM General Terms.

The margin settings for all submissions (for the US Letter Page Size: 8.5x11 inches) are and must be:
Top=0.75 inch
Bottom=1.0 inch
Left & Right=0.62 inch
Gutter: 0 inch
Portrait Orientation

(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.

Please download the template from the IEEE website: http://www.ieee.org/documents/MSW_USltr_format.doc

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5. AFTER YOU SUBMIT

6. QUESTIONS                                                   (Return to Top)

If you still have questions or problems please contact us, by phone: 1-908-213-8988 or via email at: acm@sheridanprinting.com with the conference name (ISLPED'11) 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