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In this paper, we describe the formatting guidelines for ACM SIG (.33") gutter.
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1. INTRODUCTION improvise.1
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2. PAGE SIZE continue in double-column format. The two columns on the last
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3.6 Page Numbering, Headers and Footers

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4. FIGURES/CAPTIONS
Place Tables/Figures/Images in text as close to the reference as
possible (see Figure 1). It may extend across both columns to a Figure 1. Insert caption to place caption below figure.
maximum width of 17.78 cm (7”).
Lang. Syst. 15, 5 (Nov. 1993), 795-825. DOI=
Captions should be Times New Roman 9-point bold. They should
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/161468.16147.
be numbered (e.g., “Table 1” or “Figure 2”), please note that the
word for Table and Figure are spelled out. Figure’s captions should [2] Ding, W. and Marchionini, G. 1997. A Study on Video
be centered beneath the image or picture, and Table captions should Browsing Strategies. Technical Report. University of
be centered above the table body. Maryland at College Park.
[3] Fröhlich, B. and Plate, J. 2000. The cubic mouse: a new
5. SECTIONS device for three-dimensional input. In Proceedings of the
SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems (The Hague, The Netherlands, April 01 - 06, 2000).
CHI '00. ACM, New York, NY, 526-531. DOI=
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The heading of a section should be in Times New Roman 12-point [4] Tavel, P. 2007. Modeling and Simulation Design. AK Peters
bold in all-capitals flush left with an additional 6-points of white Ltd., Natick, MA.
space above the section head. Sections and subsequent sub- [5] Sannella, M. J. 1994. Constraint Satisfaction and Debugging
sections should be numbered and flush left. For a section head and for Interactive User Interfaces. Doctoral Thesis. UMI Order
a subsection head together (such as Section 3 and subsection 3.1), Number: UMI Order No. GAX95-09398., University of
use no additional space above the subsection head. Washington.
5.1 Subsections [6] Forman, G. 2003. An extensive empirical study of feature
The heading of subsections should be in Times New Roman 12- selection metrics for text classification. J. Mach. Learn. Res.
point bold with only the initial letters capitalized. (Note: For 3 (Mar. 2003), 1289-1305.
subsections and subsubsections, a word like the or a is not [7] Brown, L. D., Hua, H., and Gao, C. 2003. A widget
capitalized unless it is the first word of the header.) framework for augmented interaction in SCAPE. In
Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM Symposium on User
5.1.1 Subsubsections Interface Software and Technology (Vancouver, Canada,
The heading for subsubsections should be in Times New Roman
November 02 - 05, 2003). UIST '03. ACM, New York, NY,
11-point italic with initial letters capitalized and 6-points of white
1-10. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/964696.964697.
space above the subsubsection head.

5.1.1.1 Subsubsections [8] Yu, Y. T. and Lau, M. F. 2006. A comparison of MC/DC,

The heading for subsubsections should be in Times New Roman MUMCUT and several other coverage criteria for logical
11-point italic with initial letters capitalized. decisions. J. Syst. Softw. 79, 5 (May. 2006), 577-590. DOI=
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5.1.1.2 Subsubsections
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11-point italic with initial letters capitalized. [9] Spector, A. Z. 1989. Achieving application requirements. In
Distributed Systems, S. Mullender, Ed. ACM Press Frontier
6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Series. ACM, New York, NY, 19-33. DOI=
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they had developed.

7. REFERENCES
[1] Bowman, M., Debray, S. K., and Peterson, L. L. 1993.
Reasoning about naming systems. ACM Trans. Program.

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