AAMAS-06 Copyright Form and Final Camera Ready Copy
Thank you for your submission to the AAMAS'06 Conference. The accepted authors MUST do the following two things:
(1) Please fax a signed copyright form to +81-52-735-7968.
(2) Please upload your camera ready copy to us (Please be careful on the ACM copyright statement in the title page) by February 15th.
The followings explain more details.
(3) For a paper to be published, at least one author must attend AAMAS to present it.
Important
Camera ready due date is February 15th, 2006. It will be possible to upload papers to ConfMaster starting on January 15th (or sooner). They must be uploaded by February 15th at the latest.
(1) Copyright Form
The enclosed ACM copyright form must be signed and returned with your paper. I caution you that ACM will not publish any paper that is not accompanied by a SIGNED copyright form. In those cases where there is more than one author per paper, the first-named (assumed senior) author only must sign.
The ACM copyright form can be obtained from
http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_form.html
The full ACM Copyright policy, revised as of December 18, 1998, is available via
http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_policy/
After SIGNED a copyright form, please fax it to :
Takayuki Ito
FAX: +81-52-735-7968
Graduate School of Engineering,
Nagoya Institute of Technology,
Gokiso, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, JAPAN.
(2) Formatting
Accepted papers have to be formatted as described here for publication. This section explains the format of camera-ready copy, so following these instructions will make the process easy. The Program Chairs reserve the right to reject papers that do not conform to the ACM standards, specifications, and formats. Please contact them at itota@ics.nitech.ac.jp if you have questions.
Camera ready due date: Feb 15th, 2006.
You MUST upload your final camera ready copy to the AAMAS2006 ConfMaster system.
It will be possible to upload papers to ConfMaster starting on January 15th (or sooner). They must be uploaded by Febrary 15th at the latest. Instructions are:
1) Authors of accepted papers must log into ConfMaster http://aamas06.confmaster.net as usual (using their login/password).
2) Then authors must click on "view own papers" to get a list of their submitted papers.
3) For each paper, there is a disk icon. To upload the final version, an author must click on this icon. The icon will be activated by January 15th (or sooner).
Page limits:
There is a 8 page limit on full papers.
There is a 3 page limit on short papers.
Mandatory Sections
The following sections in all of the ACM templates are mandatory sections: Categories & Subject Descriptors. (the address for the ACM Computing Classification Scheme is: http://www.acm.org/class/1998/)
General Terms:
This section is limited to the following 16 terms: Algorithms, Management, Measurement, Documentation, Performance, Design, Economics, Reliability, Experimentation, Security, Human Factors, Standardization, Languages, Theory, Legal Aspects, Verification.
Keywords:
This section is your choice of terms you would like to be indexed by.
Title of Your Paper Should be Initial Caps -- meaning first letter of main words should be made a capital letter.
ACM provides design templates for Microsoft Word and LaTeX. If you prepare your final camera ready copy with another program, please format your paper according to one of the above three templates.
Word or Word Perfect Users:
1. Please download the template from the ACM website:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
2. Format your document for American Letter paper (8-1/2x11).
3. Leave room for the ACM copyright statement (strip) in the front page.
A sample of the strip is here (Microsoft Word File).
LaTeX Users:
1. Please use option #2 of the ACM LaTeX2e styles.
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html)
(This style should fit more content into the same number of space, and will also automatically insert the ACM copyright statement.)
Insert the following three lines in your .tex document after \begin{document} to produce the correct copyright statement and info:
\conferenceinfo{AAMAS'06} {May 8--12 2006, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan.}
\CopyrightYear{2006}
\crdata{1-59593-303-4/06/0005}
2. Please use Type 1 fonts for your .ps file.
(See: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/sigfaq.htm#a14 for help.)
If you still have difficulty check with your system administrator.
3. Format your document for American Letter paper (8-1/2x11).
Inquires
Takayuki Ito
Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan.
Publications Chair, AAMAS-06.
itota@ics.nitech.ac.jp