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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Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not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.
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Formatting your Paper for Submission
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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.
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Actually Submitting your Paper
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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.
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Revising your Paper or Account
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- 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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