Supercomputing '96 Author Guidelines
for Technical Papers

Table of Contents

General Requirements
HTML Coding Rules
Special Instructions for LaTeX users
File Naming Conventions
PostScript File
Submission of Paper
Electronic Cover Sheet

The following guidelines describe the requirements for submitting a technical paper for Supercomputing '96 including specific details on the appropriate use of HTML tags. The organizers and the publisher will be working under tight time constraints during both the review and publication process. Please follow the instructions carefully to ensure inclusion of your paper in the proceedings. If you have problems complying with the instructions, send e-mail to proceedings96@mail.supercomp.org.

General Requirements

• HTML
• postscript

To allow printing of the papers and to make the proceedings more attractive, it is important that submitted papers follow the guidelines as closely as possible. Neither the editors nor the publishers can retype or significantly modify contributions before publication.

Paper size is limited to 5000 words or less. This is equivalent to 25 double-spaced pages.

Instructions for submissions of papers are included in the "Submission of Paper" section below.

Authors will be required to submit a hardcopy signed IEEE Copyright Form for all papers accepted for publication. This form will be available electronically at a later date.

HTML Coding Rules

The entire text of the paper should be included in a single, linear HTML file named INDEX.HTM. The only exception to this might be large illustrations or "active parts" as described below. While HTML hyperlinks allow creation of multiple navigation paths through the information in the document, these can be confusing and make printing difficult. The model which is being used for constructing the the proceedings is still the hardcopy paper. HTML links should be largely limited to incorporation of multimedia components.

Title Page

The first page of the paper should include the title, author information, abstract and a list of keywords. The HTML coding for this page should be exactly as follows.

<H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Title</H1>
<P ALIGN=CENTER>
<ADDRESS> First Author's name <BR> affiliation <BR> postal address </ADDRESS>
<CODE>e-mail address <BR> personal URL if available </CODE>
<ADDRESS>Second Author's name <BR> affiliation <BR> postal address </ADDRESS>
<CODE>e-mail address <BR> personal URL if available </CODE>
etc. <P>

<DL>
<DT><B>Abstract:</B>
<DD>Abstract (length maximum 150 words)
<P>

<DT><B>Keywords:</B>
<DD>Keywords (maximum 12 words)
</DL>
<P>

Body of the Paper

Section titles, sub-section titles, etc.:

<H2>Section Title</H2>

<H3>Subsection Title</H3>

Equations:

Equations keyed in LaTeX are preferred. The use of LaTeX derivatives, such as LaTeX2e, is discouraged, since these cannot be handled by the translator, latex2html, which will be used for the production of the proceedings.

Manuscripts developed using software like WordPerfect or Word programs are acceptable, but the mathematics will be rekeyed into a LaTeX format for the production of the proceedings. Equations that are typeset by a page layout software (Ventura, Quark, Pagemaker, FrameMaker) will be rekeyed as well.

Figures or illustrations should be included as in-lined images. GIF or JPEG (8-bit color only) are acceptable formats. The maximum horizontal size should be limited to 500 pixels. Figures of large size may be linked as external images with a small or lower resolution anchor within the text.

For tables the proposed HTML 3.0 table tags are recommended. Alternatively, use the preformat tags (<PRE> ... </PRE>) for small tables and in-lined images for large tables.

Lettering should be large enough to be readily legible when displayed on a screen. (Large images may be reduced for display on small screens.)

Captions on an image itself have to display in a size and thickness corresponding to <H3> font in the html document. Captions that are not part of an image should be put in <H3> font and appear immediately below the corresponding image.

The example below shows HTML 3.0 coding for a table. Authors should use the following border size and cellpadding:

<TABLE BORDER=5 CELLPADDING=5>

<TR>
<TD>Supercomputing</TD>
<TD>1993-Present</TD>
<TD>Interesting Facts</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
<TD>Department<BR>
University of XYZ<BR>
XYZville, ZIP 12345
</TD>

<TD>
1993-1994<BR>
1994-1995<BR>
1995-1996
</TD>

<TD>
Information A<BR>
Information B<BR>
Information C
</TD>

</TR>
</TR>

</TABLE>

We distinguish three types of links:

• internal links (pointing to a place in the same text file): to use as pointers to footnotes and your reference list at the end of the article. Limit other uses.
• local links (on the same server): for figures, tables, images and 'active' parts. All local links should be defined relative to the referring document.
• external links (to outside servers): restrict the use of external links to matters that are not vital to the contents of the paper. Any external materials linked to your paper should have a long expected lifetime at the current address.

Publication in HTML allows for nontraditional components such as animations or interactive demonstrations to be included. These "active parts" in your paper should be treated as an illustration to the main text and be delivered in a separate file under a local link. During the proposal phase these active components may be links to your own Web server. For the final paper, any use of active components that might require special arrangements on the Web server (e.g., a CGI script) must be discussed in advance with the Proceedings Publication team at proceedings96@mail.supercomp.org

When including simple in-lined images or multimedia components into your document be sure that all links are relative and that the components are inluded with the submitted paper. Failure to do this was the most frequently made submission error in 1995.

Footnotes, References, and Biographies

Use the HTML 3.0 standard tags for superscripts (<SUP></SUP>) for footnotes with an internal link to the list of footnotes. The definition list construct (<<DL><DT></DL>) should be used for the reference list. The list of footnotes should appear at the end of the paper, but before the reference list. For example:

The first footnote in the text of the paper<A HREF="#f1"><SUP>1</SUP></A>.

The second footnote in the text of the paper<A HREF="#f2"><SUP>2</SUP></A>.

<HR>
<H2>Footnotes</H2>
 <A NAME="f1"><SUP>1</SUP></A>Footnote 1 here.<P>
 <A NAME="f2"><SUP>2</SUP></A>Footnote 2 here.<P>

References:

References within the paper should include an internal link to the reference list at the end of the paper. The definition list construct (<<DL><DT></DL>) should be used for the reference list. For example:

The first reference in the text of the paper <A HREF="#r1">[1]</A>.

The second reference in the text of the paper <A HREF="#r2">[2]</A>.

The title of the reference should be bold face, and a space should be added between the reference number and the author name as given in the examples:

<HR>
<H2>References;</H2>
 <A NAME="r1">[1]</A> Author. <b>Title.</b> Source. Date.<P>
 <A NAME="r2">[2]</A> Author. <b>Title.</b> Source. Date.<P>

Latex users should use the following format for references in their Latex file to ensure consistency with other papers: author's name, (bf) title, publisher/source, date.

Example:

begin{thebibliography}{1}
\bibitem{LaTeX}
Leslie Lamport,
{\bf A Document Preparation System: \LaTeX, User's Guide and
  Reference Manual},
Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1986.
\end{thebibliography}

A section titled <H2>Author Biographies</H2> may provide a quarter- to half-page biographical sketch is appropriate for each author. The biographical sketches should be at the end of the paper with an internal link from the author's name, where it is listed at the beginning of the paper. In addition to the usual biographical information, a biographical sketch may include a small picture (an inline GIF or JPEG image), a URL if the author has a home page, and a mailto link for the e-mail address.

Special Instructions for LaTeX users

We recognize that many authors use LaTeX for writing scientific papers and that the latex2html converter can not be easily used to conform with the HTML guidelines above. Authors using LaTeX for the preparation of their paper should submit the LaTeX file and any style files used in addition to the html and ps files. The top of the LaTeX file should contain information on which version of LaTeX, latex2html and dvips (dvi2ps) have been used to obtain the submitted html and ps files.

File Naming Conventions

• Filenames must conform to the DOS file naming convention (8 characters.3 characters)
• Filenames can include only the following characters
  • Uppercase letters and numbers
  • Underscores (_)
  • No more that one period (.)
• Directory structure must be less than 7 levels deep

Your main text file should be called INDEX.HTM.

PostScript File