Authors of accepted papers should have already received reviewer comments by email. Please take them into account carefully when preparing your camera-ready paper for the proceedings. The final paper and the signed copyright form are due on:
Furthermore, we must receive at least one non-student conference registration (DEBS 3 Days) for each paper, accepted in the research, industry, or grand challenge track by May 21. For each accepted poster, demo or PhD symposium paper, there must be at least one student or non-student conference registration received by May 21. If the registration is not received in time, the paper will not be included in the proceedings.
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Note: Usually, only one ACM copyright form is needed, and it can be signed by the lead or contact author. A second form may be requested from co-presenters depending on any US or foreign government affiliations. The ACM Copyrights-Permission office will notify you if a second form is needed.
Please download the ACM “ACM_sigconf” sample/template word document from ACM:
https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template.
We strongly encourage you to review the sample file above so you will be aware of the mandatory sections, copyright strip information (see next step), formatting requirements, font requirements, font sizes, and spacing required for the final version.
The correct ACM DEBS 2018 copyright-permission notice needs to be inserted in the sample files above, see page 1, bottom of column 1 before you submit your final version. The ACM rights management process will email the lead author this information when the online ACM copyright form is completed. (See below.) There are three different forms of copyright block. You must use the one corresponding to what you selected during the rights management process.
Please double-check that your produced document matches the details in the email sent you by the rights management system, and that you have included your full DOI URL.
This statement must be in 7 point Libertine font, with the first paragraph text justified, with DEBS ’18 (the venue acronym) in italics. Refer to the ACM_SigConf.pdf sample file to view how the ACM copyright statement should appear.
Copyright Form
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DEBS '18, June 25 - 29, 2018, Hamilton, New Zealand.
978-1-4503-5782-1...$15.00.
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DEBS '18, June 25 - 29, 2018, Hamilton, New Zealand.
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DEBS '18, June 25 - 29, 2018, Hamilton, New Zealand.
978-1-4503-5782-1.
http://REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_FULL_DOI_URL % Use the data from your email from ACM rights management
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is that the fonts are not embedded properly. This most often occurs
because vector images included from your LaTeX do not themselves embed
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Please use the “sigconf” proceedings template in the acmart class that you find under 2017 ACM Master Article Template for your submission
The new ACM rights management options mean that the acmart class does not automatically generate the correct copyright block, but you can use some predefined templates. Therefore, please download the acmcopyright.sty from the ACM template page as well. The email received from the ACM rights management system will have informed you of your specific DOI. Unlike in the past, this now needs to be included in your copyright block. There are three different forms of copyright block. You must use the one corresponding to what you selected during the rights management process.
Please double-check that your produced document matches the details in the email sent to you by the rights management system, and that you have included your full DOI URL.
(a) Copyright Form
\setcopyright{acmcopyright}
\acmDOI{http://REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_FULL_DOI_URL} % Use the data from your email from ACM rights management
\acmISBN{978-1-4503-5782-1}
\acmConference[DEBS '18]{ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems}{June 25 – 29, 2018}{Hamilton, New Zealand}
\acmYear{2018}
\copyrightyear{2018}
\acmPrice{15.00}
(b) License Form
\setcopyright{acmlicensed}
\acmDOI{http://REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_FULL_DOI_URL} % Use the data from your email from ACM rights management
\acmISBN{978-1-4503-5782-1}
\acmConference[DEBS '18]{ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems}{June 25 – 29, 2018}{ Hamilton, New Zealand}
\acmYear{2018}
\copyrightyear{2018}
(c) Permission&Release Form
\setcopyright{rightsretained}
\acmDOI{http://REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_FULL_DOI_URL} % Use the data from your email from ACM rights management
\acmISBN{978-1-4503-5782-1}
\acmConference[DEBS '18]{ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems}{June 25 – 29, 2018}{ Hamilton, New Zealand}
\acmYear{2018}
\copyrightyear{2018}
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(b) Resolution & CMYK: Figures, charts, and diagrams should use a vector image format (e.g. PDF, SVG). Raster images (e.g. photographs) should be at least 300 or 600 dpi for quality reproduction and saved as .tif images (or other compatible formats that support print-quality resolution). When creating or revising your images for inclusion in the paper, we recommend choosing CMYK (and not RGB) as the color profile.
(c) TIFF/PNG versus JPG (JPEG) images: For raster images (e.g. photos), TIFFs are preferred for press applications where quality takes priority over file size. When TIFFs are compressed (using LZW compression option when saving from Adobe Photoshop, for example), no image data is lost, thus ensuring maximum quality. A JPEG is a compressed image format designed to keep the file size small, which makes it ideal for use in web graphics. However, to achieve this, the JPEG format actually removes precision from the image. This is referred to as a lossy compression system. On a printout, the removed data tends to show up as blocky areas of a solid color, or ghosting near high-contrast changes. At higher print resolutions (a minimum of 200 dpi), there’s usually enough data in the JPEG file for the compression artefacts to be very noticeable.
(d) Rules/Lines: Rules used in your graphs, tables or charts must be at least 0.5 point in stroke and black for quality reproduction. Finer lines and points than this will not reproduce well, even if you can see them on your laser printed hardcopy when checked — your laser printers will usually have a far lower resolution than the imagesetters that will be used.
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(f) Transparency: If a figure or image is assembled from multiple images, the images must be embedded, and layers be flattened or grouped together properly in the file. Transparency must be flattened.
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When your final version is ready, you need to upload your PDF file using EasyChair. Please try to submit once, rather than submitting many drafts of your final version.
Alongside your PDF file, you will be required to submit the source files for your paper – all files which were used to create the final output (PDF), be they Word, LaTeX, image files, etc. Please create a single .zip folder containing all the source files used to create the final PDF and name it "firstauthorname.zip".
As an accepted author, you have access to the proceedings section of EasyChair.
You will see a confirmation screen after a successful upload to EasyChair. Also, a confirmation email will be sent to the contact’s email address entered on the submission page.
If changes are needed, you will be contacted by one of the publication coordinators in case you need to fix something. If this is true, you will receive specific information about how to revise your submission to meet requirements, and a new deadline will be given to submit the corrected material. You are required by the chairs to adhere to this NEW deadline so publication is not delayed.
If you still have questions or problems about the copyrights and formatting requirements, please email sukanya.bhowmik@ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de ideally with the conference name (DEBS 2018) in the subject line.
