Dear Author, ************************************************************************** PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY: THE PRELIMINARY GUIDELINES PROVIDED ON HiPC WEB PAGE WERE FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF AUTHORS. THE FINAL SUBMISSIONS HAVE TO FOLLOW THE UPDATED FORMAT AVAILABLE NOW. THERE ARE DIFFERENCES IN THE LATEX STYLE FILES, COPYRIGHT FORM AND REPRINT ORDER FORM. THOUGH THE GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR LATEX FILES ARE SIMILAR, THE STYLE FILES ARE DIFFERENT AND YOU ARE REQUIRED TO USE THE UPDATED FILES. THE GUIDELINES HAVE ALSO BEEN UPDATED TO DELETE SOME IRRELEVANT INFORMATION. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. ************************************************************************** Congratulations on the acceptance of your paper for publication in the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC'98) scheduled to be held December 17-20, 1998 Chennai (Madras), India. More information on HiPC'98 can be obtained through: http://www.hipc.org/ (1) SUBMISSION: Please send your paper as a either a PDF file created by Adobe Acrobat, or as a postscript file via ftp to the following site: ftp.computer.org log in as anonymous go to> /pub/incoming/cspress/hipc98/ YOUR PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS August 31. THIS DATE IS FIRM. NO PAPER WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER THIS DATE. NOTE: WE GREATLY PREFER THE PDF FILE, HOWEVER, IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ADOBE ACROBAT, THEN PLEASE SEND REGULAR POSTSCRIPT. IN ANY CASE, DO NOT SEND A HARD COPY OF YOUR PAPER FOR PUBLICATION. THANK YOU. NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT USE ANY OF THE RYUMIN FONTS; OUR POSTSCRIPT PRINTERS DO NOT HAVE THIS FONT, AND AN ERROR MESSAGE WILL BE GENERATED. TO SAVE TIME, PLEASE USE TIMES-ROMAN AND HELVETICA FONTS ONLY. THANK YOU! (2) FILENAMES : Please follow the naming convention of the first author's name as the file name, as, John Smith's paper would be named . PLEASE USE YOUR LAST NAME, ONLY, NO FIRST NAMES, INITIALS, OR PAPER NUMBERS. IF YOU ARE SUBMITTING MORE THAN ONE PAPER FOR THE PROCEEDINGS, PLEASE IDENTIFY THEM AS , , etc. (3) COPYRIGHT FORM: Fax your signed IEEE Copyright Release form to: Bob Werner, HiPC'98, +1-714-761-1784. Fill out the copyright form below with the title of your paper and the author name(s). Do not delete the publication title from the form, and do not use any other form but this one. The copyright form can also be mailed Bob Werner to the address at the end of this letter. NOTE: WE CANNOT PUBLISH YOUR PAPER WITHOUT THIS SIGNED FORM. (4) OVER-PAGE CHARGES: The page length for your paper is eight (8) pages. You may purchase a maximum of two (2) extra pages, for US$ 150.00 per page, each, made payable to International Conference on High Performance Computing. All cheques MUST be in U.S. Dollars drawn on a U.S. Bank. The over-page receipt form provided below should be filled in and sent together with the payment. This will be returned to you and no other receipt will be provided. DO NOT SEND THE CHEQUE FOR YOUR OVER-PAGE CHARGES TO THE IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY OR TO THE GENERAL CO-CHAIRS. Please send payment to the Finance Co-chair at the following address: HiPC '98 c/o Ajay Gupta Computer Science Department Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA Email: hipc98@cs.wmich.edu Fax: +1 (616) 387-3999 (5) FORMAT: Attached to the bottom of this message and available on the HiPC website is a set of electronic instructions for formatting your paper. Please read and follow them carefully. NOTE: THESE HAVE CHANGED SINCE LAST YEAR. PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY. (6) ABSTRACTS: In addition to your paper, an electronic abstract of your paper is required. Only e-mailed abstracts will be accepted. Send your abstract to: hipc98abs@computer.org. As it takes some time to set up this account, please do not send the abstract before the paper due date. Allow at least 2 weeks after the paper due date to send your abstract. (7) REPRINTS: If you wish to order reprints of your paper please follow the instructions as stated in the attachment. NOTE: PLEASE USE THIS REPRINT ORDER FORM, ONLY. DO NOT USE PREVIOUS FORMS. Thank you, Bob Werner IEEE Computer Society Publications Office 10662 Los Vaqueros Circle, Los Alamitos, CA 90720-1264 Tel: (714) 821-8380, Fax: (714) 761-1784 Email: bwerner@computer.org July 29, 1998. --------------- CUT HERE ----- OVER-PAGE CHARGES RECEIPT ---------------- HiPC '98 OVER-PAGE CHARGES RECEIPT AUTHOR NAME : _____________________________ PAPER NUMBER: _____________________________ PAPER TITLE : ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ AMOUNT (US$): __________ (over-page charges are US$ 150 / page) ===================== For HiPC '98 use only Finance Co-chair: ________________________ Date: __________ ===================== Please mail to the Finance Co-chair at: HiPC '98 c/o Ajay Gupta Computer Science Department Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA Email: hipc98@cs.wmich.edu Fax: +1 (616) 387-3999 ----------------------------------- CUT HERE -----------------------------