The papers should be typeset as they will appear in the eventual conference proceedings using standard ACM two-column conference format. Please prepare a PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) version of your manuscript, formatted for 8 1/2" x 11" paper, following the ACM proceedings formats which can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Proceedings templates are available in Word, WordPerfect, and LaTeX (v. 2.09 and 2e). For the LaTeX formats, you may use either the standard style or the SIG-alternate style, which is more efficient.
Papers must be in PDF. It is essential that they print without difficulty on a variety of printers using Adobe Acrobat Reader Version 5, widely used and available at no cost from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html. Authors must be sure that any special fonts are included, etc. It is the absolute responsibility of the authors to ensure that their submitted paper is in PDF and will print easily. Note that documents containing non-North American or non-European fonts (e.g. Asian fonts) can not be read with the version of Acrobat that we will use and will be used by most reviewers. Please do not use Asian fonts, and verify this by testing with a North American/European version of Acrobat reader (obtainable as above). Something as minor as including a space or punctuation character in a two-byte font can render a file unreadable.
If you do not currently have software to make PDF files, you can obtain shareware software to do this from http://www.this.net/~frank/pstill.html or http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost as well as commercial software Adobe Acrobat, from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/main.html.
You are encouraged to include full-color figures in your submission. We will later be determining if color figures can be included in the conference proceedings.
Submission Procedure
Papers should be submitted electronically to the official conference
submission website, http://continue.cs.brown.edu/servlets/softvis05/submit.ss.
If you
encounter any difficulties in using the submission web site, please
send email to one of the Program Co-Chairs.
Accompanying videos
Videos that assist reviewers by communicating the contributions made
by a paper can accompany a submission. Videos should not exceed 5
minutes in length, and they should be in a digital format capable of
being viewed on either a QuickTime or Windows Media Player. To submit
a video go to the submission website again,
enter "Video: <Title of your paper>" as
the title of your submission and select the video file instead
of a PDF file.