Paper Development
and Submission
Guide
This document is to be your complete draft paper in all respects, because this document will be distributed as is to reviewers.
Notice that it is optional to have your paper blindly reviewed. If you choose this option than do NOT include author names/affiliations on the title page or elsewhere in this draft paper.
As you complete the web-based paper submission form (see Draft Paper Submission below), authors name and affiliation information will be collected so that we can identify and track your paper. However, this information will NOT be available to reviewers during the initial review process.
To format your draft paper, use:
It is important to follow length guidelines in developing your paper. Excessively long drafts may be rejected outright. (Furthermore, finalized papers in the conference proceedings will incur a significant charge for every page beyond 10. Experience shows that 22-page drafts prepared as described above convert to about 10 pages in the final-paper format outlined below.)
To prepare a high-quality document with text and figures seamlessly merged, it is assumed that you will prepare your draft paper with some sort of text/document formatter tool (such as Microsoft "Word," for example). The tool used is your choice but, when ultimately submitted, your draft paper's file must be in postscript or pdf format, as explained below.
To ensure electronic portability of your draft paper including text with embedded figures, prepare this file as
or
Postscript is a fairly universal format that many text/document formatters can output directly and explicitly. Some can be forced to implicitly output postscript by "targeting the document at a postscript-based printer but then writing the document to a file" rather than actually printing it.
Pdf is a proprietary format of the Adobe company. Thus, it is generated only from tools built or licensed by Adobe. Producing a pdf file will require the availability of such a tool. However, reading/viewing a pdf is easily accomplished by anyone using Adobe's freely distributed/downloadable "Acrobat" pdf reader. This ubiquitous reader guarantees pdf file portability and provides a powerful interface to facilitate document viewing.
If your text/document formatter tool cannot generate either postscript or pdf, then you will need to convert the tool-generated file before submission. Experiment early to determine a suitable conversion flow. At least for postscript, conversion is often available through simple (Unix) utilities.
To guarantee portability, document files should be test-viewed and test-printed before submission. For postscript documents, test via the widely available ghostview (gv) tool. For pdf documents, test via the (freely distributed) Adobe "Acrobat" pdf reader tool.
It is imperative that authors use the Micro-32 paper submission web form. First, before your paper is actually transferred, the form will collect needed author identifying information and will assign a unique Micro-32 number to your paper. Second, the form will then guide you through steps to directly transfer your paper to the Micro-32 web site host machine. After finishing the form-based submission process, you will receive confirmation email.
If just the second, direct-file-transfer step cannot complete between your machine and the Micro-32 host (usually because you're using a fairly antiquated browser), you will be provided special guidance for completing your paper submission via email instead. In this alternative, your transfer your paper via email after the identifying information has already been successfully collected by the form.
If some unexpected service catastrophe such as an extended server "crash" at our Micro-32 web site were to make all forms support unavailable for extended times, then a purely email emergency submission procedure will be allowed. This submission procedure is only allowed in real emergencies. (To clarify, server slowness under load does not constitute an emergency. On the other hand, extended loss of service that prevents forms use for extended times might.) To use the emergency submission procedure, email the identifying information that the form would have collected to ronny.ronen@intel.com with your paper's postscript or pdf file uuencoded/attached. Identifying info provided must include at least paper title, some keywords, and corresponding author name/affiliation/email. To ensure proper identification of your paper, more information from more form fields is strongly recommended.
If your draft paper is accepted, prepare your final paper by refining your paper per reviewer feedback. Format your final paper generally as follows. (Fully detailed development guidelines are anticipated later from the proceedings publisher. When available, notice will be given here. Please check back periodically.)
Tentative instructions:
Final papers in the conference proceedings will incur a significant charge for every page beyond 10. Furthermore, if a final paper substantially exceeds the length of it's earlier draft, we reserve the right to truncate what actually appears in the conference proceedings.
We anticipate that final "camera-ready" papers will be submitted directly to the proceedings publisher. When details of the publisher's final paper submission process are ready, notice will be given here. Please check back periodically.
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