New!! for
Poster Authors!! Specifications for preparing your poster presentation at PG 2000.
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There will be two boards allotted for each poster
presentation. The usable area of each board is 70cm in width and 100cm in height.
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The poster session will take place in the afternoon of
Oct. 4 (day two of the conference) for about 90 mins. There will be 16 poster presentations at PG 2000.
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There will be a PC and a set of TV/VCR provided for
showing a demo or playing a video tape accompanying your poster presentation for discussion purposes.
The VCR is capable of playing video tapes in NTSC and PAL. This set of equipment will be shared (time-sharing)
by all the presenters.
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Please send email to pg2000@csis.hku.hk if you have any
special requirements on software to be installed on the PC for your demo.
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Please note:
The authors of a poster paper would be requested
to cover the printing cost of their paper if none of them attend the conference to make the presentation.
The registration should be made by August 31, 2000.

Information provided by Bob
Werner from IEEE Computer Society.
Please send your paper as a postscript or pdf file via ftp to the following
ftp site:
To upload your paper file on the FTP site:
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FTP to "pubftp.computer.org" |
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User: "anonymous" |
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Password: Use email indentity (email name) as password. |
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Place files in subdirectory:
press/incoming/proceedings/pg00 |
To upload your color images on the FTP site:
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FTP to "pubftp.computer.org" |
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User: "anonymous" |
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Password: Use email indentity (email name) as password. |
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Place files in subdirectory: press/incoming/proceedings/pg00_color |
When transferring files to the FTP site, if you have a choice between ASCII
and binary modes, use binary. Although ASCII mode works well most of the time, binary mode incurs fewer problems.
Please prepare your U.S. Letter-size(8.5" x 11") paper as plain ASCII
PostScript only, with NO encoding, condensing, or encapsulation.
Please use TrueType 1 fonts wherever possible. Fonts
MUST be from Latin 1
Fontset. Our PostScript printers will not recognize any other fonts. Do not use bitmapped versions of fonts such as
Computer Modern if you can avoid it. Guidelines for generating and submitting PostScript files are available on our Internet site at:
http://computer.org/author/psguide.htm
IMPORTANT NOTE: YOUR PAPER DUE DATE IS
JULY 20, 2000 (9:00am PST). THIS IS THE CORRECT DATE.
Regular
Paper page limit and color plate information:
Page limit: 10 pages
Maximum number of extra pages beyond 10: 3 pages
Charge per extra page: US$150
Color plate limit: one color plate (i.e. one page)
Maximum number of extra color plates beyond 1: 1 color plate
Charge per extra color plate: US$500
Note: If all the images provided for a paper cannot be put on one plate,
it counts as extra plates for that paper.
Poster
Paper page limit and
color plate information:
Page limit: 2 pages
Maximum number of extra pages beyond 2: No extra pages allowed.
Charge per extra page: US$150
Color plate limit: 0
Maximum number of extra color plate: 1
Charge per extra color plate: US$500
Note: A poster
can have at most one color plate but its author must pay for
it.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please use the paper number assigned to you by the
conference when naming and sending your file to the above ftp site, followed by your last name, as for example, the filename for paper PG-001
would be <pg-001_smith.ps>
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please do not use any of the Ryumin, Nimbus, or
BBB-Gothic fonts in your paper. These fonts must not be used in your text, figures, tables, graphs, etc. We do not have these fonts, and, error
messages will result if these fonts are present in your paper. Consequently, your paper will not print. This may cause your paper not to
be published if these fonts are used. Thank you.
Fax your signed IEEE Copyright Release form to:
Bob Werner, PG'00, +1-714-761-1784.
The copyright release form is
linked, in text or pdf; please use whichever is convenient for you.
WE CANNOT PUBLISH YOUR PAPER WITHOUT THIS SIGNED FORM.
There is a set of electronic instructions
(ASCII) for formatting your paper. PLEASE READ AND FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY!
If the linked files become unusable during transmission for any
reason, you may also access uncustomized copies of them at our FTP site. Available at:
ftp://ftp.computer.org/pub/outgoing/cspress/proceedings/
ELECTRONIC ABSTRACT of your paper - Only e-mailed abstracts will be
accepted. Send your abstract to: pg00-abs@computer.org. Note: as it takes some time to set up this account, please do not send the
abstract before the paper due date. Allow at least 2 weeks after the paper due date to send your abstract.
REPRINTS - Print out the electronic
reprint order form and use it if
you wish to order reprints.
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Camera-ready copy due
July 20, 2000
Three days of conference
October 3-5, 2000

Copyright Form (PDF)
Copyright
Form (ASCII)
Formatting
Instructions INSTRUCT.TXT (ASCII)
Reprint Form
(ASCII)

The following files contain the LaTeX macros
necessary for you to format your paper based on the instructions/
measurements in the INSTRUCT.TXT attachment in our standard author kit for 8.5 x 11-inch
proceedings.
The files appear in the following order:
latex8.sty
-- the style file
latex8.tex -- the main macro set
latex8.bib -- the sample bibliography macros
latex8.bst -- the bibliography main macro set
latex8.ps -- this file, when printed out, will give you a sample
of how your paper should look when it's finished.
latex8.tar.gz
or latex8.zip contain the above 5 files.
Note that both current versions of LaTeX, 2e and 2.09, have the same
macros -- refer to the start of the latex8.sty file for the opening
statement for each.
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