Submission Guidelines:

• The paper title, abstract, author list and affiliations must be submitted by November 2, 2003. The full paper must be submitted by November 7, 2003.
  
• Only original material not published or under review by any other conference or journal may be submitted.
  
• Papers must not exceed 12 pages, using 9-point or larger fonts, in double-column format. This page limit includes everything: title, abstract, text, figures, tables, references, appendices, etc. except as noted below. Papers must be submitted in PDF format, and should be formatted to print satisfactorily on letter size paper (8.5" X 11"). We recommend the use of the ACM SIG Proceedings Templates. Plots and figures should be easily legible when printed on black-and-white printers.
  
• All submissions will be reviewed using a double-blind review process. The identity of the authors and referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure blind reviewing, authors' names and affiliations MUST NOT appear in the paper; bibliographic references must be made in such as way as to preserve author anonymity.

  Necessary references should not be omitted to provide anonymity. Authors' own past work should be cited and discussed in third person. For example, in a paper by John Doe:
  
  Our work extends the models of Doe et al. [23] in which ...
  
  Bibliography
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  [23] John Doe et al., "Markov methods for predicting...", In Proceedings of Sigmetrics/Performance 2001, ...
  
  If it is not possible to provide a third-person citation while maintaining anonymity (for example, the reference is to a technical report containing further details of the current work, such as detailed proofs), the material may be appended to the submission as a separate appendix, clearly marked to indicate that the material will not appear in the final document, but will be cited and publicly available. This addition will not count towards the page limit.