The 46th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 2013 |
This document provides the formatting instructions for submissions to the 46th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 2013. In an effort to respect the efforts of reviewers and in the interest of fairness to all prospective authors, we request that all submissions to MICRO-46 follow the formatting and submission rules detailed below. Submissions that (grossly) 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.
An example submission (formatted using the MICRO-46 submission format) that contains the submission and formatting guidelines can be downloaded from here: http://www.microarch.org/micro46/files/micro46-template.pdf. Sample PDF. The contents of this document are the same as the contents of the submission instructions that appear on http://www.microarch.org/micro46/files/submission.html (this webpage).
All questions regarding paper formatting and submission should be directed to the program chair.
All submissions should contain a maximum of 12 pages of single-spaced two-column text. If you are using LATEX to typeset your paper, then we suggest that you use the template available here: http://www.microarch.org/micro46/files/micro46-latex-template.tar.gz. (This document was prepared with that template.) If you are using a different software package to typeset your paper, then please adhere to the guidelines mentioned in Table 1.
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.
Figures and Tables. Ensure that the figures and tables are legible. Please also ensure that you refer to your figures in the main text. Many reviewers print the papers in gray-scale. Therefore, if you use colors for your figures, ensure that the different colors are distinguishable in gray-scale.
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.
In addition to your paper, you can optionally upload past reviews and author response to past reviews for this submission (PDF file). This document will be used at the discretion of the program chair during the review process.
Specifically, authors can submit a PDF file that includes any combination of the following:
Note: Your submission will still undergo a full new review process that is independent of this PDF file you submit. MICRO-46 reviewers will complete their reviews independently of this PDF file, and will not see this PDF file until after the paper rebuttal period ends. The sole purpose of asking for this PDF file is to provide the authors a chance to rebut potential reviewer concerns that could arise during the paper discussion period and the program committee meeting that happens after the MICRO-46 rebuttal period ends.
Declare all the authors of the paper upfront. Addition/removal of authors once the paper is accepted will have to be approved by the program chair.
The authors should register all their conflicts into the paper reviewing site. Conflicts are needed to resolve assignment of reviewers. If a paper is found to have an undeclared conflict that causes a problem, the paper may be rejected.
Please declare a conflict of interest with the following for any author of a paper:
You will have to declare all conflicts with PC members as well as non-PC members that may serve as external reviewers with whom you have a conflict of interest. When in doubt, contact the program chair.
Extended versions of papers accepted to IEEE Computer Architecture Letters can be submitted to MICRO-46. If you are in doubt, contact the program chair.
The submission site is located at: http://micro46.stanford.edu