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Guidelines for Submissions to ISCA 2015}

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\begin{abstract}
This document is intended to serve as a sample for submissions to
ISCA 2015.  Authors should follow these guidelines when submitting
papers to the conference.
\end{abstract}

\section{Introduction}

This document provides the formatting instructions for submissions to
the 42nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture. In
an effort to respect the efforts of reviewers and in the interest of
fairness to all prospective authors, all submissions to ISCA-42 must
follow the formatting and submission rules detailed below.
Submissions that violate these instructions may not be reviewed, at
the discretion of the program chair, in order to maintain a review
process that is fair to all potential authors.  This is a generous
format, with plenty of space -- there should be no need to tweak it in
any significant way.

An example submission (formatted using the ISCA-42 submission format)
that contains the submission and formatting guidelines can be
downloaded from the conference website at {\em
  http://www.ece.cmu.edu/calcm/isca2015}.  All questions regarding
paper formatting and submission should be directed to the program
chair.

The general guidelines are the same as instituted for last year's ISCA:
\begin{itemize}
\item Papers are limited to 11 pages, not including references.
\item No page limit for references (use as much space as you need).
\item Each reference must specify all authors (no {\em et al.}).
\end{itemize}

\noindent{\bf Paper evaluation:} The committee will make every effort
to judge each submitted paper on its own merits. There will be no
target acceptance rate. We expect to accept a wide range of papers
with appropriate expectations for evaluation. The conference values
papers that deliver value to the body of architecture knowledge,
including those that build on significant past work with strong
evaluations, as well as those that advance new areas with less
rigorous evaluation.

\section{Preparation Instructions}

\subsection{Paper Formatting}

All submissions should contain a maximum of 11 pages of single-spaced
two-column text plus an unlimited number of pages for citations.
Papers must be formatted with US letter size paper (no A4).  If you
are using \LaTeX~\cite{lamport94} to typeset your paper, then we
strongly suggest that you use the template available at
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/calcm/isca2015 -- this document was prepared
with that template.  If you are using a different software package to
typeset your paper, then you must adhere to the guidelines given in
Table~\ref{table:formatting}.

\begin{table}[h!]
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{|l|l|}
    \hline
    \textbf{Field} & \textbf{Value}\\
    \hline
    \hline
    Page limit & 11 pages, \\
               & {\bf not including references} \\
    \hline
    Paper size & US Letter 8.5in $\times$ 11in\\
    \hline
    Top margin & 1in\\
    \hline
    Bottom margin & 1in\\
    \hline
    Left margin & 0.75in\\
    \hline
    Right margin & 0.75in\\
    \hline
    Separation between columns & 0.25in\\
    \hline
    Body font & 10pt\\
    \hline
    Abstract font & 10pt, italicized\\
    \hline
    Section heading font & 12pt, bold\\
    \hline
    Subsection heading font & 10pt, bold\\
    \hline
    Caption font & 9pt, bold\\
    \hline
    References & 8pt, no page limit, \\
               & list all authors' names\\
    \hline
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{Formatting guidelines for submission. }
  \label{table:formatting}
\end{table}

\textbf{Please ensure that you include page numbers with your
submission}. This makes it easier for the reviewers to refer to
different parts of your paper when they provide comments.

Also, please ensure that your submission has a banner at the top of 
the title page, similar to this paper, which contains the submission
number and the notice of confidentiality.  If using the template,
just replace XXX in the template with the submission number
you receive from the submission website.

If you use bibtex, please note that the references.bib file provided
in the template example includes some format-specific incantations at
the top of the file.  If you substitute your own bib file, you will
probably want to include these incantations at the top of it.

\subsection{Content}

\noindent\textbf{Author List:} Submissions are double
blind. Author names should only appear in the space provided on the
submission form and must not appear in the submitted paper or anywhere
else.  You must also ensure that the metadata included in the PDF does
not give away the authors. If you are improving upon your prior work,
refer to your prior work in the third person and include a full
citation for the work in the bibliography. For example, if you are
building on {\em your own} prior work in the papers~\cite{nicepaper,
  nicepaper2}, you would say something like "While the authors
of~\cite{nicepaper, nicepaper2} did X and Y, this paper does X, Y and
Z, and is therefore much better."  Do NOT omit or anonymize references
for blind review.

\noindent\textbf{Figures and Tables:} Ensure that the figures and
tables are legible.  Please also ensure that you refer to your figures
in the main text. The proceedings will be printed in gray-scale, and
many reviewers print the papers in gray-scale. Therefore, if you must
use colors for your figures, ensure that the different colors are
highly distinguishable in gray-scale.  If a figure is not easily
understandable in gray-scale, then assume it will not be understood by
the reviewers.  In many cases, it is better to just prepare your
documents without color.

\noindent\textbf{Main Body:} Avoid bad page or column breaks in
your main text, i.e., last line of a paragraph at the top of a
column or first line of a paragraph at the end of a column. If you
begin a new section or sub-section near the end of a column,
ensure that you have at least 2 lines of body text on the same
column. 

\noindent\textbf{Citations:} Please list all authors of every cited
work in the references section and avoid using {\em et al.} The paper
submission format allows an unlimited number of pages for citations,
so there is no need to scrimp on space for them.

\section{Submission Instructions}

\subsection{Paper Authors}

Declare all the authors of the paper at time of submission.
Addition/removal of authors once the paper is accepted will have to be
approved by the program chair.  The paper selection process is
carefully run in a way that maximizes fairness by seeking to eliminate
all conflicts of interest.  Late changes to author lists can
invalidate that process.

\subsection{Declaring Conflicts of Interest}

Authors must register all of their conflicts into the paper submission
site.  Conflicts are needed to resolve assignment of reviewers.
Please get the conflicts right.  You have a week between the
registration of the paper and final submission -- there is no need to
do the conflicts in a rush at the last second. If a paper is found to
have an undeclared conflict that causes a problem OR if a paper is
found to declare false conflicts in order to abuse or ``game'' the
review system, the paper may be rejected.

Please declare a conflict of interest (COI) if any of the following
exist for any author of a paper:

\begin{enumerate}
\item Your Ph.D. advisor and Ph.D. students forever.
\item Family relations by blood or marriage forever (if they might be potential reviewers).
\item Other past or current advisors.
\item People with whom you collaborated in the last five years. Collaborators include:
\begin{itemize}
\item Co-authors on an accepted/rejected/pending research paper.
\item Co-PIs on an accepted/rejected/pending grant.
\item Those who are funders (decision-makers) regarding your research grants, and researchers whom you fund. 
\end{itemize}
You many exclude ``service'' collaborations like co-authoring an NSF
workshop report or serving together on a program committee.
\item People who shared your primary institution in the last five
years. Note that if either you or they have moved, there could be
several institutions to consider.
\end{enumerate}

There may be others with whom you know a conflict of interest exists.
However, you will need to justify this conflict of interest.  Please
be reasonable.  For example, you cannot declare a conflict of interest
with someone for the sole reason that they work in a similar area as
your submitted paper.  The program chair may contact co-authors to
explain COIs whose origin is not clear.

You must declare all conflicts with PC/ERC members as well as others
with whom you have a conflict of interest.  When in doubt, contact the
program chair.

\subsection{Concurrent Submissions and Resubmissions of Already Published Papers}

By submitting a manuscript to ISCA-42, the authors guarantee that the
manuscript has not been previously published or accepted for
publication in a substantially similar form in any conference or
journal. The authors also guarantee that no paper that contains
significant overlap with the contributions of the submitted paper is
under review at another conference or journal, or a workshop with an
archived proceedings, or will be submitted to one of them before the
ISCA-42 author notification deadline. Violation of any of these
conditions will lead to rejection.

Extended versions of papers accepted to IEEE Computer Architecture
Letters can be submitted to ISCA-42.  If you are in doubt, contact the
program chair.

Finally, we also note that the ACM Plagiarism Policy ({\em http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism\_policy}) covers a range of ethical issues concerning the misrepresentation of other works or one's own work.

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