ISWC2004 Poster Abstract Formatting Instructions ∗ Jeremy Carroll Hewlett-Packard Labs Bristol, UK jeremy.carroll@hp.com Abstract The collection of ISWC2004 Poster Abstracts will be printed from electronic manuscripts sub- mitted by the authors. This paper gives the style instructions. 1 Introduction The ISWC2004 Poster Abstracts will be printed from elec- tronic manuscripts submitted by the authors. These must be PDF (Portable Document Format) or postscript files for- matted for A4 paper. 1.1 Length of Papers Each accepted poster abstract is allowed two pages. 1.2 Word Processing Software As detailed below, ISWC has prepared and made available a set of L A T E X macros and a MS-Word template for use in formatting your paper, based on earlier templates prepared for IJCAI. If you are using some other word processing software (such as WordPerfect, etc.), please follow the for- mat instructions given below and ensure that your final pa- per looks as much like this sample as possible. 2 Style and Format L A T E X and BibT E X style files that implement these instruc- tions can be retrieved electronically. (See Appendix A for instructions on how to obtain these files.) 2.1 Layout Print manuscripts two columns to a page, in the manner in which these instructions are printed. The dimensions for pages are: • left and right margins: .75 ′′ • column width: 3.25 ′′ • gap between columns: .25 ′′ • top margin—first page: 1.375 ′′′ • top margin—other pages: .75 ′′ • bottom margin: 1.375 ′′ • column height—first page: 7.125 ′′ • column height—other pages: 9.5 ′′ * Derived from formatting instructions for IJCAI’03 All measurements assume an A4 page size. There are small rounding errors with the imperial distances given above, which can be ignored. 2.2 Format of Electronic Manuscript For the production of the electronic manuscript you must use Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) or Postscript. PDF can be generated, for instance, on Unix systems using ps2pdf. Under Windows, Adobe’s Distiller can be used to generate PDF. There is also a web site with free software and conversion services: www.ps2pdf.com. For reasons of uniformity, Adobe’s Times Roman font is strongly suggested. \usepackage{times} in the preamble. 1 Additionally, it is of utmost importance to specify the A4 format (corresponding to 8.27 × 11.69 ′′ ) when format- ting the paper. Otherwise the paper is not printable. When working with dvips, for instance, one should specify -t a4. 2.3 Title and Author Information Center the title on the entire width of the page in a 14-point bold font. Below it, center the author name(s) in a 12-point bold font. Then the address(es) should be centered using a 12-point font. Credit to a sponsoring agency can appear on the first page as a footnote. 2.4 Abstract Place the abstract at the beginning of the first column 3.0 ′′ from the top of the page, unless that does not leave enough room for the title and author information. Use a slightly smaller width than in the body of the paper. Head the ab- stract with “Abstract” centered above the body of the ab- stract in a 12-point bold font. The body of the abstract should be in the same font as the body of the paper. The abstract should be a concise, one-paragraph sum- mary describing the general thesis and conclusion of your paper. A reader should be able to learn the purpose of the paper and the reason for its importance from the abstract. The abstract should be no more than 100 words long. 1 You may want also to use the package latexsym, which defines all symbols known from the old L A T E X version.