Workshop Submission Guidelines

SIGCOMM workshops, like most conferences and journals, require that papers not be submitted simultaneously to any other conference or publication and that submissions not be previously published. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality and relevance. Electronic copies of the camera-ready papers will be published on the conference web site before the conference, unless authors specifically request that this not be done.

The formatting requirements for SIGCOMM workshop papers are given below. Please read each workshops call for papers and anonymity guidelines before preparing your submission.

Formatting Guidelines

  • Submissions must be in double column format with standard margins and at least a 10 point font, larger if possible. This length includes everything: figures, tables, references, appendices and so forth. Longer submissions will not be reviewed, and your goal as an author is to produce a clearly readable submission within these constraints.
  • Number the pages.
  • The paper must be submitted in PDF or Postscript format. We must be able to display and print your submission exactly as we receive it and using only standard tools and postscript printers, so we strongly suggest that you use only standard fonts.
  • Make sure that the paper prints well on black-and-white printers, not color printers. This is especially true for plots and graphs in the paper.
  • Make sure that the output has been formatted for printing on LETTER (8.5" by 11") size paper.

Anonymity Guidelines

Workshops that require anonymity undergo double-blind reviewing -- the authors do not know the identity of the program committee members and referees who review the paper, nor do the program committee members and referees know the identity of the authors. As an author, you are required to make a good faith effort to preserve the anonymity of your submission while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Common sense and careful writing will go a long way towards preserving anonymity. You should also take the following steps when preparing your submission:

  • Remove authors' names and affiliations from the title page.
  • Remove acknowledgement of identifying names and funding sources.
  • Use care in naming your files.  Source file names, e.g., Joe.Smith.dvi, are often embedded in the final output as readily accessible comments.
  • Use care in referring to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer unable to grasp the context. Instead, a good solution is to reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other piece of related work. For example, if your name is Joe Smith:

In previous work [1,2], Smith presented protocols for ....  In this paper, we build on that work by ...

Bibliography
[1] Joe Smith, "A Simple Protocol for  ...," Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2000.
[2] Joe Smith, "A More Complicated Protocol for...," Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2001.

The requirement for anonymity is not meant to extend beyond the submission process to the detriment of your research. In particular, you may circulate your submission among colleagues or discuss it on a mailing list if you see fit.