KDD-2002 Paper format
Summary of ACM SIG Proceedings Format
Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts must be submitted electronically at the paper submission web site on or before 6pm PST Feb. 22, 2002. An abstract must not contain more than 250 words. No paper will be considered without having the abstract submitted in time.
Full papers must be submitted electronically at the paper submission web site on or before 6pm PST March 1, 2002. Authors are required to submit a version of their full papers in camera-ready format. All papers must be submitted in either PDF, postscript or MS Word format. However, PDF is the preferred submission format. It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that the submitted papers print correctly on a variety of printers. If any special fonts are used, they must be included in the submission. Finally, all papers must be original, and have not been submitted elsewhere.
Summary of Required Paper Format
Page Size and Layout: All material on each page should fit within a rectangle of 18 X 23.5 cm (7" X 9.25"), centered on the page, beginning 2.54 cm (1") from the top of the page and ending with 2.54 cm (1") from the bottom. The right and left margins should be 1.9 cm (.75"). The text should be in two 8.45 cm (3.33") columns with a .83 cm (.33") gutter.All body text is set in two columns. The two columns on the last page should be of (nearly) equal length.
Normal or Body Text: The body text is set in 9-point Times Roman (cmr). Use sans serif or nonproportional fonts only for special purposes, such as distinguishing source code text. Right margins should be justified, not ragged.
Title and Author Information: The title (Helvetica or Arial 18-point bold), authors? names (Helvetica or Arial 12point), author addresses, affiliations and phone number (Helvetica or Arial 10-point) and email address (Helvetica 12 point) run across the full width of the page. Up to three author names and information blocks may be aligned at the top of the first page; any additional author information appears in a paragraph at the end of the paper.
References and Citations: Footnotes should be Times New Roman 9-point. The format of references is a numbered list at the end of the article, ordered alphabetically by first author, and referenced by numbers in brackets e.g. [1].
References should be published materials accessible to the public. Internal technical reports may be cited only if they are easily accessible (i.e. you can give the address to obtain the report within your citation) and may be obtained by any reader. Proprietary information may not be cited. Private communications should be acknowledged, not referenced (e.g. "[Robertson, personal communication]").
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