Please find the guidelines and pertinent information for submission of your paper(s). Please note:  It is of particular importance that you leave sufficient space in the lower left corner of the first column on the first page for ACM to fill in the copyright information.  There is a 12 page limit on Research and Industrial Track papers and a 1 page limit on Demos and Tutorials.

Please submit camera-ready copy (produced on a high-resolution output device) of your manuscript on 8 1/2" x 11" paper following the proceedings format appended below. Proceedings templates to create camera-ready copy are available in Word, WordPerfect, and LaTex. These templates are located at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.

The ACM copyright form is available via http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_form.html

and 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 full ACM Copyright policy, revised as of Dec. 18, 1998, is available via http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_policy/.

Please federal express or mail your paper and signed copyright form so that it is received by Sharad Mehrotra by March 2, 2001.

Please email your final version in PDF format to: Walid Aref - aref@cs.purdue.edu, cc: Mario Espinoza - espinoza@ics.uci.edu

The hard copy and signed copyright form should be sent to:

Sharad Mehrotra
University of California at Irvine
444 Computer Science Building
Irvine, CA 92697-3425

Note: The proceedings will be released shortly after the camera-ready copy date, so any patent applications should be made before then.