Format of the paper

There will be a conference proceeding for the MDM2001 conference. Both research and industrial papers are solicited. Research papers must be unpublished and not exceed 25 double-spaced pages. Industrial papers must not longer than 10 double-spaced pages and should describe industrial applications, prototypes, experiences, and standards. Authors of industrial papers describing applications and prototypes will be invited to demonstrate their systems in the conference. Authors are invited to submit their papers via ftp to the conference web site (see below for instruction) on or before July 8, 2000. PDF format is preferred but postscript format is acceptable

Submission

All submitted papers will be refereed by experts in the field based on quality, clarity, originality, and significance.

Each submission should be accompanied by a cover letter indicating

the contacting author,
affiliation,
mailing and email addresses,
telephone and fax number,

Electronic Submission (FTP)

To facilitate the submission procedure, authors should ftp their manuscripts (please pack each manuscript into one single pdf or postscript file) to the following account and please follow the following guidelines:

FTP Submission

ftp at ftp://ftp.cse.cuhk.edu.hk and go to the directory /pub/mdm2001/incoming. Use 'anonymous' as the login name and your email address as the password.
To place your submission, make sure to issue the FTP command "BINARY" before transferring files.
The name of the file should be in the following format
```
                        author.filetype
```
where author is the family name of the first author of the manuscript. For example, 'lee.ps' be the postscript submission by Lee and 'lee.pdf' be the pdf submission by Lee.
Upon the successful upload of your file, authors are required to upload a ASCII text file to describe the submitted paper. The text file should be in the following format
```
                        author.txt
```
The text file should include: (1) the title of the paper, (2) the filename (e.g, author.filetype) of the uploaded file, (3) authors, (4) affiliation, (5) email addresses, (6) telephone and fax numbers, (7) name of contact authors, (8) affiliation, (9) keywords, (10) abstract.

For further information on paper submissions and other conference-related inquiries please contact:

Professor Michael Franklin
Computer Science Division
387 Soda Hall #1776
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
Phone: (510) 642-1662
Fax: (510) 642-5615
Email: franklin@cs.berkeley.edu

Professor John Chi-Shing Lui
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, N.T.
Hong Kong
Phone: (852) 2609-8407
Fax: (852) 2603-5024
cslui@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

Professor Dik L. Lee
Department of Computer Science
HKUST
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon
Hong Kong
Phone: (852) 7017-3534
Fax: (852) 2358-1447
dlee@cs.ust.hk