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Paper Submission Instructions
Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently
under review for any other publication. Authors of accepted papers
will need to sign an ACM copyright release form and present their
paper at the conference. The Proceedings of the conference will
be published by ACM Press and distributed at the conference; copies
of the Proceedings will also be available for sale after the conference.
For more information about SenSys 2004, please see the SenSys 2004 Home Page.
Before submitting your paper, please check the description
of the conference scope in the Call for Papers. SenSys
covers all system issues in embedded networked systems. If you
are unsure whether your work falls within the scope of the conference,
please contact the Program Co-Chairs
at sensys04-pcchairs@enl.usc.edu.
All papers being submitted to SenSys 2004
must be registered in EDAS by 11:59 PM EST (US
Eastern timezone) April 2, 2004. The deadline
for actually then submitting all registered papers is 11:59 PM EST
(US Eastern timezone) April 9, 2004. These are firm deadlines.
| Formatting your Paper
for Submission |
Please be sure your paper is formatted properly for submission.
In particular, please note the following format requirements:
- Your submission must be in PDF. We cannot
handle other formats such as Microsoft Word. Whatever text
processor or formatter you use to write your paper (LaTeX,
Microsoft Word, FrameMaker, etc.), please convert the output
to PDF before submission. Under Windows, for example, PDF
files can be produced using the Adobe Acrobat product.
- Your submission must be correctly formatted to fit
on U.S. "Letter" size paper, which is 8.5 inches
wide by 11 inches tall. Please be sure you have a reasonable
margin (such as 1 inch) on all edges (top, bottom, left,
and right) of each page.
Under Windows, for example, in the "Page Setup"
window, please select "Letter" (e.g., not "A4")
for the paper size, and please set your margins appropriately
for this paper size.
Under Unix, if you are using "dvips" to produce
an intermediate PostScript, please be sure the paper size
is set correctly (specify "-t letter"
to force the paper size).
- Paper submissions for regular papers must be limited to
14 pages. Either single-column or double-column,
single or double spacing is fine for submissions.
- The font size used in the text of your submission must not
be smaller than 10 points.
- As described in the Call for Papers, all
papers will be judged through double-blind reviewing, where
the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers.
Please be sure your name does not appear on the paper or in
the submitted PDF file. This means that before submission,
you must remove from the paper the authors' names,
authors' affiliations, acknowledgements of funding sources,
etc. Also, be careful how you refer to your own prior work
in the paper. For example, do not describe your prior work
with phrases like:
In prior work[3], we presented a routing protocol
that ...
Instead, refer to your work in the third person, such as
In prior work, Smith[3] presented a routing protocol
that ...
With this method, the full citation to Smith can still be
given,such as
[3] Smith, J., "Analysis of ....
In particular it is not acceptable to say
[3] Reference deleted for double-blind review.
- We must be able to print your paper once it is submitted.
Due to the large variety of systems available for formatting
papers and producing PDF, this is not always possible for
some systems. To maximize the chances that your paper will
print correctly, please use only standard printer fonts (e.g.,
Times Roman, Helvetica, etc.) or standard TeX Computer Modern
fonts; other fonts may be used but must be included in the
PDF file. The use of standard printer fonts is strongly preferred
over TeX fonts, if possible.
- The paper must be able to print clearly on standard black-and-white printers. Reviewers are not
required to view your paper in color, and the final version
of all accepted papers will be published in only black-and-white
in the conference Proceedings.
| Actually Submitting your
Paper |
All papers for SenSys 2004 must be submitted electronically
through the EDAS
Conference Management System.
Logging in to EDAS
- Using EDAS requires logging in first. If you already have
an account, enter your email address (or your numeric EDAS ID#)
and password in the fields on the form on the EDAS home page.
- If you do not know whether you have an account on this EDAS
system, try entering your email address or name. EDAS will
check for your account and let you know whether it knows about
you.
- If you have an account but have forgotten your password,
leave the password field blank, and EDAS will mail your password
to you.
- If you do not yet have an account on the EDAS system, click
on the link there to "create your new user account."
Fill in the resulting form and the click on the
button there. Mandatory fields are listed in red; optional
fields are listed in black. The password for accessing the
EDAS system will be sent to you via email. Once you receive
your password, you should return to EDAS and log in.
Registering your Paper
- After logging in to EDAS, you will see your overall EDAS
system homepage. Find "SenSys 2004" among the list
of conferences accepting submissions. To begin the process
of submitting your paper, click on "Submissions and management"
for SenSys 2004. This will bring you to the SenSys 2004 EDAS
homepage.
- You should then see the web form for registering your paper
submission. Fill in the form:
- Enter the authors of the paper. Enter each author using
either their EDAS identifier or their last name. Each
author must be registered in EDAS; if an author is not
yet registered in EDAS, you will be prompted for the information
to register them. You must also select one of the authors
to be the correspondence author.
- Enter the title and abstract of the paper.
- Select the topics from the list of paper topics that
best classify your paper.
- Select whether the paper is a regular paper or a student
paper (where a primary author is a student). Student papers
will be considered for the best student paper award.
- Once you have filled in all information for your paper,
click on the
button at the bottom of that page. This will show you a page
that acknowledges your paper's registration.
Submitting and Uploading your Paper
- After registering your paper submission, you must upload
your actual paper.
- To upload your paper right after registering your submission,
simply follow EDAS instructions on the acknowledgement page.
- Alternatively, you can upload your paper later from your
SenSys 2004 EDAS homepage. From there, you can upload your
paper by clicking on the
icon in the line that shows your paper's listing, or
via ftp, or email as per instructions on that page.
- After you return to your SenSys 2004 EDAS homepage, you
will see your uploaded paper. If you click on the paper number,
you will see the paper details. If you click on the paper
under "Manuscript", you will see the PDF version that you
uploaded.
- From your SenSys 2004 EDAS homepage, you can see the status
of your paper. Initially, when you are registered but yet
to upload your paper, EDAS will show the status as
 to show that no version of your paper
PDF file has been uploaded yet. After your paper has been
uploaded, the status will change to  to indicate that the paper is under
review.
| Revising your Paper or
Account |
- After you have submitted your paper, you can revise your
submission at any time before the submission deadline of 23:59 PM EST,
April 9, 2004.
- To revise your submission, go to your SenSys 2004 EDAS homepage.
Just upload a new PDF version the same way you did already
for the previous version.
- To revise your paper, please use the procedure here to upload
the new revised version of your existing registered paper.
Please do not instead register and submit the new version
as if it were a separate new paper, since this will duplicate
the paper registration records.
- You can also revise your own EDAS account information from
your SenSys 2004 EDAS homepage. To do so, click on the link
at the top to edit your profile.
For general information on the SenSys 2004 paper submission
or the scope of technical papers solicited, please refer to
the Call for Papers. For
any other questions about the submission process or paper format,
please contact the Program Co-Chairs
at sensys04-pcchairs@enl.usc.edu.
If you have any technical problems with EDAS, please contact
edas@edas.info.
Thank you for submitting your paper to SenSys 2004!
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