FDNA-03 Paper Format and Submission Guidelines

How to Submit a Paper

Submissions should be made by email to the workshop email address fdna@lcs.mit.edu. Your email message should specify the paper title, authors' names and affiliations, and the name and contact information of the contact author. Your message should also contain a text version of the paper abstract.

The paper itself may either be included as an email attachment or a pointer supplied as a URL.

Questions about the workshop content, paper preparation, etc. may also be emailed to this address.

All messages to this address will be auto-acknowledged. If your email does not receive an automatic response within a short time, please try again. If problems persist, please contact any member of the organizing committee directly.

Originality of Submission

FDNA-03, like most workshops and conferences, requires that papers not be submitted simultaneously to any other conference or publication and that submissions not be previously published. Work that significantly extends previous work, or new writing that extends, supports or clarifies the authors' previously stated position or viewpoint, is of course welcome.

Paper Length Guidelines

• The maximum paper length is 14 pages, formatted as below. Shorter papers are both reasonable and encouraged. Reviewers will favor clarity and crispness of presentation over length.
• This length includes everything: figures, tables, references, appendices and so forth. Longer submissions will not be reviewed, and your goal as an author is to produce a clearly readable submission within these constraints.

Formatting Guidelines

• Review submissions should be in single or double column format with 1 inch margins and at least a 10 point font, larger if possible. Separate instructions for formatting of final versions will be provided to authors of accepted papers.
• Please number the pages.
• Your paper should be submitted in PDF or Postscript format. We must be able to display and print your submission exactly as we receive it and using only standard tools and postscript printers, so we strongly suggest that you use only standard fonts. LaTeX users: please try to avoid "bitmap" ComputerModern fonts if possible (if you don't know what this means, don't worry about it...).
• Please make sure that your paper is readable and understandable in black-and-white. This is especially true for plots and graphs in the paper. Please avoid the use of color, particularly to convey important content or meaning.
• Please make sure that the output has been formatted for printing on US LETTER (8.5" by 11") size paper. The organizers apologize for unfortunately necessary parochialism.

Anonymity Guidelines

Initial review of papers submitted to FDNA-03 will be double-blind -- authors will not know the identity of the program committee members and reviewers who review the paper, nor will the program committee members and reviewers know the identity of the authors. As an author, you are asked to make a good faith effort to preserve the anonymity of your submission while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Common sense and careful writing will go a long way towards preserving anonymity. You should also take the following steps when preparing your submission:

• Remove authors' names and affiliations from the title page.
• Remove acknowledgement of identifying names and funding sources.
• Use care in naming your files.  Source file names, e.g., Joe.Smith.dvi, are often embedded in the final output as readily accessible comments.
• Use care in referring to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer unable to grasp the context. Instead, a good solution is to reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other piece of related work. For example, if your name is Joe Smith:

In previous work [1,2], Smith presented protocols for ....  In this paper, we build on that work by ...

Bibliography
[1] Joe Smith, "A Simple Protocol for  ...," Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2000.
[2] Joe Smith, "A More Complicated Protocol for...," Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2001.

The requirement for anonymity is not meant to extend beyond the submission process to the detriment of your research. In particular, you may circulate your submission among colleagues or discuss it on a mailing list if you see fit.