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Page Size |
Submissions that do not conform to the ACM SIG standards, templates, and formats will be returned to the author for corrections and/or alterations. The page size for this ACM publication is US Letter (8-1/2x11 inches). |
Bad Breaks |
Be sure that there are no bad page or column breaks which means no widows (last line of a paragraph at the top of a column). If this happens either tighten the previous column or force a line over.
Section and Sub-section heads should remain with at least 2 lines of body text when near the end of a page or column. |
Images & Figures |
(a) Colors and Black & White (Gray Scale) Print Testing. If you have any images in color, we suggest that you print your paper to a black/white printer (or black-white version) to be sure that the tones and screens used in your images or figures reproduce well in black and white. Your images will appear in color in the electronic proceedings and the ACM Portal (digital library), but are likely to be printed in grayscale.
(b) Resolution & CYMK: We recommend images to be at least 300 or 600 dpi for quality reproduction and saved as .tif images. When creating or revising your images for inclusion in the paper, please be sure you choose CYMK and not RGB (as the color profile choice).
(c) TIF (EPS) vs JPG (JPEG) images: TIFs were (and should be) created for pre-press applications where quality takes priority over file size. While TIFs can be compressed (LZW compression option when saving out of Photoshop, for example), no image data is lost, thus ensuring maximum quality. JPEG was designed as a compressed image format designed to keep the file size small which makes it ideal for use in web graphics. To do this, the JPEG format actually deletes image data from the image. The higher the level of compression, the more data is removed. 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. At higher resolutions (a minimum of 200 dpi), there's usually enough data in the JPEG file for the compression artifacts to be very noticeable.
(d) Rules/Lines: We recommend for quality reproduction of rules in your graphs, tables or charts, that the rules are at least a 0.5 pt. and black. Finer lines and points than this will not reproduce well, even if you can see them on your laser printed hardcopy when checked.
(e) Fonts: If your figure uses custom or any non-standard font, the characters may appear differently when viewed on some software or printed. Remember to check your figure creation that all fonts are embedded or included in the figure correctly.
(f) Transparencies: If a figure or image is assembled from multiple images, the images must be embedded, layers flattened or grouped together properly in the file, not lined. Transparencies should also be flattened. |
Page Numbering, Headers, & Footers |
Your final submission SHOULD NOT contain any footer or header string information at the top or bottom of each page. The submissions will be paginated in a determined order by the chairs and page numbers added to the pdf during the compiling, indexing, and pagination process. |
| ACM Classification Sections |
The ACM Classification section and Author Keywords are mandatory to be included on the first page of your submission.
ACM Classification Keywords (Mandatory): Make sure that your selection included on the first page of your paper after Authors' Keywords are also chosen properly on the submission page. Click here for information on the ACM Computing Classification Scheme.
General Terms (Optional for 1st page): You must select one or more of the following General Terms, which must match those listed in your submission.
- Algorithms
- Experimentation
- Management
- Security
- Design
- Human Factors
- Measurement
- Standardization
- Documentation
- Languages
- Performance
- Theory
- Economics
- Legal Aspects
- Reliability
- Verification
The best way to understand the General Terms is that they are orthogonal to the subject categories, that is, they cut across all subjects.
Authors' Keywords (Mandatory): This section is your (author) choice of terms that you would like used to index your work.
Click here for information on the ACM Computing Classification System. |
| Creating an ACM Compliant PDF |
Your pdf file should be ACM Compliant. The requirements for an ACM Compliant PDF are Outlined Here.
Right Click here to obtain the (acm.joboptions) to use ACM distiller settings for full versions of Adobe Acrobat and Distiller ONLY. The acm.joboptions has all the settings and requirements to create an ACM compliant PDF with Adobe Acrobat-Distiller. |
| Thumbnail Image |
ACM is requesting a thumbnail image to identify your paper (a small one image representation of your paper). This thumbnail image is "optional" and should be at least 72 dpi, 100 pixels wide in .jpg format. If you do submit a thumbnail image, a short-brief caption (20-30 words) will be required.
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Please download the template from the ACM website: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html |
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Be sure to format your document for American Letter (8-1/2x11). Please check that your submission adheres to the set page limit for your type of submission (8 pages max. for full papers, 2 pages for posters). |
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Insert the ACM copyright statement (GECCO-copyright, right click and download to cut and paste the text into your paper). This statement should appear in 8 pt. Times New Roman, justified text, with GECCO'14 (the venue acronym made italic). See the attached pdf as an example: GECCO-copyright.pdf |
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Distill/Create an ACM compliant PDF. If your submitted pdf file is not ACM Compliant, we will distill your .doc or .docx file with the ACM distilling settings, send the PDF to the contact author for approval, and use the PDF for the proceedings and the ACM DL. |
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You need to upload your .doc and .pdf files (& optional thumbnail image) to: https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/gecco/ on or before January 29, 2014 (23:59 EST) . We recommend using a modern, standards-compliant Web browser to upload the necessary files. |
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Be sure to use the specified class file above with the Option 2: LaTeX2e templates and sample files from: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates |
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Include the following five (5) lines in your .tex document after \begin{document} will produce the correct ACM & needed conference copyright statement and needed info for the bottom/left of the first page:
\conferenceinfo{GECCO'14,} {July 12-16, 2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada.}
\CopyrightYear{2014}
\crdata{TBA}
\clubpenalty=10000
\widowpenalty = 10000 |
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You MUST use Type 1 fonts for your submission, for help see on obtaining the correct type of fonts and other formatting issues, see: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/sigfaq.htm for help.
We do not need your whole directory of images, figures and packages, just the main TEX file with the title, authors, affiliations, abstract, ACM classification sections (Categories, General Terms and keywords), as well as the references from your bbl file (not your whole bib directory). We do NOT and can NOT recompile your LaTeX submission(s). |
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Please check that your submission adheres to the set page limit for your type of submission (8 pages max. for full papers, 2 pages for posters). |
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Create a PS file directly from tex and Distill/Create an ACM compliant PDF. If your submitted pdf file is not ACM Compliant, we will distill your .ps (postscript) file with the ACM distilling settings, send the PDF to the contact author for approval, and use the PDF for the proceedings and the ACM DL. |
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You need to upload your .pdf files (& optional thumbnail image) to: -https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/gecco/- on or before January 29, 2014 (23:59 EST). We recommend using a modern, standards-compliant Web browser to upload the necessary files. |
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