Guidelines for Individual Statements
(message from Jon Doyle)

I'm sorry to nag, but we need the complete and correct lists of
position statement authors and titles by tomorrow.  The statements
themselves are not due for a couple weeks.  At present, only three
working groups have sent in such lists - AI, Concurrency, and
Programming Languages.

Luca Cardelli pointed out some questions people may have in preparing
their position statements, and I would appreciate you passing on these
further instructions to your position statement authors.  We ask
everyone who can to reformat their statements into the Computing
Surveys HTML format described in

The citation page and paper available there may be used as templates
for the reformatting; for most statements, this should be a fairly
simple matter.  The things those guidelines do not spell out are as
follows:

1. The citation URL for position statements will be of the form

http://www.acm.org/surveys/1996/NameKeyword/

The citation URL will be the URL of the article's citation page; the
URL for the article itself should be of the form

http://www.acm.org/surveys/1996/NameKeyword/NameKeyword.html

In these URLs, Name will be the last name of the author (normally the
first author for multi-author works), and Keyword will be a word from
the title (sometimes the first).  Authors should feel free to
construct these combinations themselves; we will change them here if
conflicts arise, and will assign them for anyone not able to prepare
an HTML version.  Please replace all occurrences of
	     "http://www.acm.org/surveys/1996/Formatting"
with the correct URL segment.  All these articles will be appearing
in Volume 28A, Number 4 (note the A; it denotes the new online series of
volumes).  Thus a citation to one of these papers would be something
like
    Luca Cardelli, Global Computation, 
    ACM Computing Surveys, 28A(4) (December 1996), 
    http://www.acm.org/surveys/1996/CardelliGlobal/

The citation page and article, respectively, would be stored as files at
    http://www.acm.org/surveys/1996/CardelliGlobal/index.html
    http://www.acm.org/surveys/1996/CardelliGlobal/CardelliGlobal.html


2.  Give the submission date as the date on which you wrote the paper,
or the date of the SDCR workshop, June 14, 1996.

3.  Give the revision date as the date of your final revision (not
later than November 15, 1996, please!).

4.  Give the acceptance date as October 31, 1996.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Jon

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