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  • Daniel Estrada
Daniel Estrada
New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Abstract

CongratulationsonhavingapaperselectedforinclusioninanAAAIPressproceedingsortechnicalreport!ThisdocumentdetailstherequirementsnecessarytogetyouracceptedpaperpublishedusingLaTeX.IfyouareusingMicrosoftWord,instructionsareprovidedinadifferentdocument.Ifyouwanttousesomeotherformattingsoftware,youmustobtainpermissionfromAAAIPressfirst.TheinstructionshereinareprovidedasageneralguideforexperiencedLaTeXusers.IfyoudonotknowhowtouseLaTeX,donotuseittoformatyourpaper.AAAIcannotprovideyouwithsupportandtheaccompanyingstylefilesarenotguaranteedtowork.Iftheresultsyouobtainarenotinaccordancewiththespecificationsyoureceived,youmustcorrectyoursourcefiletoachievethecorrectresult.Theseinstructionsaregeneric.Consequently,theydonotincludespecificdates,pagecharges,andsoforth.Pleaseconsultyourspecificwrittenconferenceinstructionsfordetailsregardingyoursubmission.Pleasereviewtheentiredocumentforspecificinstructionsthatmightapplytoyourparticularsituation.Allauthorsmustcomplywiththefollowing:
  • YoumustusethelatestAAAIPressLaTeXstylefileandbibfile,whicharelocatedinthecurrentauthorkit.
  • Youmustcomplete,sign,andreturnbythedeadlinetheAAAIcopyrightform(proceedingsauthors)ordistributionlicense(technicalreportauthors).
  • YoumustreadandformatyourpapersourceandPDFaccordingtotheformattinginstructionsforauthors.
  • Youmustsubmityourelectronicfilesandabstractusingourelectronicsubmissionformontime.
  • YoumustpayanyrequiredpageorformattingchargestoAAAIPresssothattheyarereceivedbythedeadline.
  • Youmustcheckyourpaperbeforesubmittingit,ensuringthatitcompileswithouterror,andcomplieswiththeguidelinesfoundintheauthorkit.

Copyright

AllpaperssubmittedforpublicationbyAAAIPressmustbeaccompaniedbyavalidsignedcopyrightformor,inthecaseoftechnicalreports,byavalidsignedpermissiontodistributeform.Therearenoexceptionstothisrequirement.Youmustsendustheoriginalversionofthisform.However,tomeetthedeadline,youmayfax(1-650-321-4457)orscanande-mailtheform([email protected])toAAAIbythesubmissiondeadline,andthenmailtheoriginalviapostalmailtotheAAAIoffice.Ifyoufailtosendinasignedcopyrightorpermissionform,wewillbeunabletopublishyourpaper.Therearenoexceptionstothispolicy.YouwillfindPDFversionsoftheAAAIcopyrightandpermissiontodistributeformsintheauthorkit.

FormattingRequirementsinBrief

WeneedsourceandPDFfilesthatcanbeusedinavarietyofwaysandcanbeoutputonavarietyofdevices.Thedesignandappearanceofthepaperisgovernedbytheaaaistylefile.Youmustnotmakeanychangestothisfile,noruseanycommands,packages,stylefiles,ormacrosthatalterthatdesign,including,butnotlimitedtospacing,floats,margins,fonts,fontsize,andappearance.AAAIimposesrequirementsonyoursourceandPDFfilesthatmustbefollowed.Mostoftheserequirementsarebasedonoureffortstostandardizeconferencemanuscriptpropertiesandlayout.AllpaperssubmittedtoAAAIforpublicationmustcomplywiththefollowing:
  • Your.texfilemustcompileinPDFLaTeX—no.psor.epsfigurefiles.
  • AllfontsmustbeembeddedinthePDFfile—thisincludesyourfigures.
  • Modificationstothestylefile,whetherdirectlyorviacommandsinyourdocumentmaynotbemade,mostespeciallywhenmadeinaneffortoavoidextrapagechargesormakeyourpaperfitinaspecificnumberofpages.
  • Notype3fontsmaybeused(eveninillustrations).
  • Youmaynotalterthespacingaboveandbelowcaptions,figures,headings,andsubheadings.
  • Youmaynotalterthefontsizesoftextelements,footnotes,headingelements,captions,ortitleinformation(forreferencesandtablesandmathematics,pleaseseethethelimitedexceptionsprovidedherein).
  • Youmaynotalterthelinespacingoftext.
  • YourtitlemustfollowTitleCasecapitalizationrules(notsentencecase).
  • Your.texfileincludecompletedmetadatatopass-throughtothePDF(seePDFINFObelow)
  • LaTeXdocumentsmustusetheTimesorNimbusfontpackage(donotuseComputerModernforthetextofyourpaper).
  • NoLaTeX209documentsmaybeusedorsubmitted.
  • Yoursourcemustnotrequireuseoffontsfornon-Romanalphabetswithinthetextitself.Ifyourpaperincludessymbolsinotherlanguages(suchas,butnotlimitedtoArabic,Chinese,Hebrew,Japanese,RussianandotherCyrilliclanguages),youmustrestricttheirusetofigures.
  • Fontsthatrequirenon-Englishlanguagesupport(CIDandIdentity-H)mustbeconvertedtooutlinesor300dpibitmaporremovedfromthedocument(eveniftheyareinagraphicsfileembeddedinthedocument).
  • Two-columnformatinAAAIstyleisrequiredforallpapers.
  • ThepapersizeforfinalsubmissionmustbeUSletterwithoutexception.
  • ThesourcefilemustexactlymatchthePDF.
  • Thedocumentmarginsmustbeasspecifiedintheformattinginstructions.
  • Thenumberofpagesandthefilesizemustbeasspecifiedforyourevent.
  • Nodocumentmaybepasswordprotected.
  • NeitherthePDFsnorthesourcemaycontainanyembeddedlinksorbookmarks.
  • YoursourceandPDFmustnothaveanypagenumbers,footers,orheaders.
  • YourPDFmustbecompatiblewithAcrobat5orhigher.
  • YourLaTeXsourcefile(excludingreferences)mustconsistofasinglefile(useofthe“input”commandisnotallowed.
  • YourgraphicsmustbesizedappropriatelyoutsideofLaTeX(donotusethe“clip”command).
Ifyoudonotfollowtheaboverequirements,itislikelythatwewillbeunabletopublishyourpaper.

WhatFilestoSubmit

Youmustsubmitthefollowingitemstoensurethatyourpaperispublished:
  • Afully-compliantPDFfile.
  • YourLaTeXsourcefilesubmittedasasingle.texfile(donotusethe“input”commandtoincludesectionsofyourpaper—everysectionmustbeinthesinglesourcefile).Theonlyexceptionisthereferencelist,whichyoushouldincludeseparately.Yoursourcemustcompileonoursystem,whichincludesthestandardLaTeXsupportfiles.
  • Onlythegraphicsfilesusedincompilingpaper.
  • TheLaTeX-generatedfiles(e.g..auxand.bibfile,etc.)foryourcompiledsource.
  • IfyouhaveusedanoldinstallationofLaTeX,youshouldincludealgorithmstylefiles).Ifindoubt,includeit.
YourLaTeXsourcewillbereviewedandrecompiledonoursystem(ifitdoesnotcompile,youmayincurlatefees).Donotsubmityoursourceinmultipletextfiles.YoursingleLaTeXsourcefilemustincludeallyourtext,yourbibliography(formattedusingaaai.bst),andanycustommacros.Accompanyingthissourcefile,youmustalsosupplyanynonstandard(orolder)referencedstylefilesandallyourreferencedgraphicsfiles.Yourfilesshouldworkwithoutanysupportingfiles(otherthantheprogramitself)onanycomputerwithastandardLaTeXdistribution.PlaceyourPDFandsourcefilesinasingletar,zipped,gzipped,stuffed,orcompressedarchive.Nameyoursourcefilewithyourlast(family)name.Donotsendfilesthatarenotactuallyusedinthepaper.Wedon’twantyoutosendusanyfilesnotneededforcompilingyourpaper,including,forexample,thisinstructionsfile,unusedgraphicsfiles,standardstylefiles,andsoforth.Obsoletestylefiles.Thecommandsforsomecommonpackages(suchassomeusedforalgorithms),mayhavechanged.Pleasebecertainthatyouarenotcompilingyourpaperusingoldorobsoletestylefiles.

UsingLaTeXtoFormatYourPaper

ThelatestversionoftheAAAIstylefileisavailableonAAAI’swebsite.DownloadthisfileandplaceitintheTeX searchpath.Placingitinthesamedirectoryasthepapershouldalsowork.Youmustdownloadthelatestversionofthecompleteauthorkitsothatyouwillhavethelatestinstructionsetandstylefile.

DocumentPreamble

IntheLaTeXsourceforyourpaper,youmustplacethefollowinglinesasshownintheexampleinthissubsection.Thiscommandset-upisforthreeauthors.Addorsubtractauthorandaddresslinesasnecessary,anduncommenttheportionsthatapplytoyou.Inmostinstances,thisisallyouneedtodotoformatyourpaperintheTimesfont.ThehelvetpackagewillcauseHelveticatobeusedforsansserif.ThesefilesarepartofthePSNFSS2epackage,whichisfreelyavailablefrommanyInternetsites(andisoftenpartofastandardinstallation).Leavethesetcounterforsectionnumberdepthcommentedoutandsetat0unlessyouwanttoaddsectionnumberstoyourpaper.Ifyoudoaddsectionnumbers,youmustuncommentthislineandchangethenumberto1(forsectionnumbers),or2(forsectionandsubsectionnumbers).Thestylefilewillnotworkproperlywithnumberingofsubsubsections,sodonotuseanumberhigherthan2.If(andonlyif)yourauthortitleinformationwillnotfitwithinthespecifiedheightallowed,put\setlength\titlebox2.5ininyourpreamble.Increasetheheightuntiltheheighterrordisappearsfromyourlog.Youmaynotusethe\setlengthcommandelsewhereinyourpaper,anditmaynotbeusedtoreducetheheightoftheauthor-titlebox.

TheFollowingMustAppearinYourPreamble

\frenchspacing \setlength{pdfpagewidth}{8.5in} \setlength{pdfpageheight}{11in}\\ \pdfinfo{ /Title (Input Your Paper Title Here) /Author (John Doe, Jane Doe) /Keywords (Input your keywords in this optional area) } \\ \{Author 1 \ and Author 2\\ Address line\\ Address line\\ \ And\\ Author 3\\ Address line\\ Address line }\\

PreparingYourPaper

Afterthepreambleabove,youshouldprepareyourpaperasfollows:
% \begin{document}