Dear Author, Congratulations on the acceptance of your paper for publication in the proceedings of the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS '00), scheduled to be held May 1-May 5, 2000, in Cancun, Mexico. (For more information please see the following WWW pages: http://www.ipdps.org and http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2000.htm.) The following is an author kit to help you in the preparation of your paper. No hard copy author kit will be sent. PAPER LENGTH For all except award papers and keynote speakers, the maximum page length is SIX (6) pages. You may purchase a maximum of four (4) extra pages. This includes all figures, tables, and references. For award papers and keynote speakers only, the maximum page length is EIGHT (8) pages. You may purchase a maximum of TWO (2) extra pages. This includes all figures, tables, and references. Extra pages may be purchased for $US150.00 each, made payable to IPDPS2000. Please also fill out the OVERPAGE CHARGES RECEIPT available at http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2000/authorkit/overpage.html. Please do not send your check to the IEEE Computer Society. Please send the check and the completed overpage charges receipt directly to: Peter Keleher Computer Science Department A. V. Williams Bldg. University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-3255 301 405-0345 Fax: 301 405-6707 keleher@cs.umd.edu DEADLINES (detailed explanations follow below) PLEASE NOTE: Your paper is due by 4 February 2000. PLEASE NOTE: A signed copyright form is due by 4 February 2000. PLEASE NOTE: An electronic abstract of your paper is due by 4 February 2000. PLEASE NOTE: An electronic copy of your paper for the conference website is due by 4 February 2000. Please put the conference name -- IPDPS '00 -- on all correspondence, on the copyright form, and on any mailing envelope. This will ensure that your correspondence is directed immediately to my desk. ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION Please submit your paper electronically to our FTP site. The paper should be uploaded at: ftp://ftp.computer.org/pub/incoming/proceedings/ipdps00 Please prepare your 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. FILE NAME Please follow the naming convention of the first author's last name as the file name. For instance, John Smith's paper would be named . If you have been assigned a paper number by the conference organizers, please incorporate this into your filename. If you are submitting two or more files, please number them: , , etc. If there is a file with the same name already in the directory, please use a variation. Files are regularly moved off the ftp site. Please do not re-post your paper if you do not see it on the site. TRANSFERRING TO THE FTP SITE 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. Our ftp site: ftp.computer.org Log on as: anonymous Place files in subdirectory pub/incoming/proceedings/ipdps00 COPYRIGHT FORM Please fax your signed IEEE Copyright Release form to Anne Rawlinson at 714-761-1784. We cannot publish your paper without this permission. PLEASE NOTE: the copyright form is an attachment to this e-mail. If you do not have access to a fax machine, please send a hardcopy of the form to Anne Rawlinson IPDPS '00 IEEE Computer Society 10662 Los Vaqueros Circle Los Alamitos, CA 90720 USA Telephone: +1 714 821 8380 ABSTRACT: All proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society are now being included in the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library, and are available on-line through our web site. An E-mailed abstract of your paper is necessary for putting your paper into the on-line version of the IPDPS '00 Proceedings. Please send an electronic copy of your abstract, as an e-mail in ASCII format and including the paper title, keywords, author names, addresses, and affiliations, to . If you do not have e-mail, please save your abstract in ASCII format on a disk and send the disk with your copyright release form. ATTACHMENTS: There are several customized attachments to this author kit. They contain: AUTHOR GUIDELINES Instructions on formatting your paper for the proceedings. COPYRIGHT RELEASE FORM A copyright release form that MUST BE SIGNED AND RETURNED WITH YOUR PAPER. Note that you are stating that the material in your paper is original and you have not previously released copyright to it. We cannot publish your paper without this properly filled-out and signed form. REPRINT ORDER FORM To use if you wish reprints of your paper. Please make checks for reprints out to the IEEE Computer Society. (The reprints.pdf attachment below will allow you to type your information directly into the form before you print it out.) The authkit.txt attachment is a plain ASCII text file that is an overall guide with instructions for formatting, a copy of the copyright form and a copy of the reprint form. There are three additional attachments in PDF file format for Adobe Acrobat. They are instruct.pdf, copyrght.pdf, and reprints.pdf. These files, while containing the same information as authkit.txt, are formatted to be easier to read and fill out. If attached 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/ LATEX MACROS: LaTeX formatting macros are also available for on our FTP site. Proceedings 8.5 x 11 format - Filename: IEEE CS latex.zip Available at: ftp://ftp.computer.org/pub/outgoing/cspress/proceedings/ If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. WWW SUBMISSION You are also required to submit another electronic version of your paper separately for the conference WWW site. Make sure to submit an identical copy. Again, the deadline for WWW submission is also 4 February 2000. Pease see the web page http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2000/authorkit/webversion.html for further details including instructions for workshop submissions. Thank you, Anne Rawlinson IPDPS '00 IEEE Computer Society 10662 Los Vaqueros Circle Los Alamitos, CA 90720 USA arawlinson@computer.org Ph: 714-821-8380 Fax: 714-761-1784