2nd International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools

AUTHORS' KIT - ACM PUBLICATION

CAMERA-READY PAPERS

• Camera-Ready papers should be uploaded into the ICST CMC (Conference Management Center) at https://www.icst.org/cmc/. You can use your existing Cocus login to access the CMC.
• Once logged in, select the conference/workshop you wish to upload a Camera-Ready paper for.
• Fill out ALL information for your paper, include all co-authors of your paper and please make sure to double-check for errors before submission.

REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE

• Please visit https://icst.org/registration/reg_valuetools_2007.php
• Please register for the conference. PLEASE NOTE, that AT LEAST 1 AUTHOR for each accepted paper must register at full rate (non-student), in order for the paper to be included at the conference and on the Proceedings CD.
• Please make sure to enter the title and ID number of your paper from CMC.

COPYRIGHTS

• Copyright forms are to be submitted via fax or email. You can download the copyright form here: https://icst.org/registration/co_valuetools2007.pdf

PAPER FORMATTING / DETAILS CORRECTIONS

• Formatting guidelines can be found below.
• For each paper, if necessary, you will be requested to make formatting changes.

General

• Please prepare your paper using the 2-column format.
• For Word users, View the guidelines and templates in DOC or PDF format.
  Note the you must have at the bottom of the first column of first page:
  Conference name: Valuetools'07, October 23-25, 2007, Nantes, France.
  Copyright 2007 ICST 978-963-9799-00-4
• Latex users must use sig-alternate-icst.cls style file
  and the template sig-alternate-icst.tex Before the \begin{document}, insert:
  \crdata{978-963-9799-00-4}
  \CopyrightYear{2007}
  \conferenceinfo{Valuetools}{'07, October 23-25, 2007, Nantes, France}
  This is already included in the template
  Note that only the header is changing with respect to the template when submitting the paper.
• Your paper must be submitted in PDF format. A PDF creator can be downloaded for Windows here.
• Failure to meet the formatting guidelines set by ICST, could result in your paper not being included in the Proceedings CD.
• Please note that you will see this box at the bottom of the first page. This must remain in this location on your paper ie. at the bottom of the left column. This is the ICST copyright and document/conference identification. Please, fill this bottom box in, using the following values:
  Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee.
  Valuetools’07, October 23-25, 2007, Nantes, France.
  Copyright 2007 ICST 978-963-9799-00-4
  
  

Guidelines

• All fonts have to be embedded
• PDF file have to be compatible with Acrobat reader 4.0

Length

Regular papers and invited papers are allowed up to 10 pages, and 10 pages for work-in-progress papers, including all figures, tables and references. Extra pages will incur additional charges. More information can be found on the Registration form, where the payment for these would be made.