SIGMETRICS 2000
International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
June 18-21, 2000
Santa Clara, California
Double-blind reviewing:
writing for anonymity
All papers submitted to the ACM Sigmetrics conference undergo a "double-blind"
reviewing process - the authors do not know the identity of the program
committee members and referees who review the paper, nor do the program
committee members and referees know the identity of the authors.
In order to preserve the anonymity of authorship, authors must take
care in preparing their manuscript:
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Remove authors' names and affiliations from the title page.
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Remove acknowledgement of funding sources(s) from the title page.
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Use care in naming your files. For example, if your name is Joe Smith
and you submit a postscript file generated from a dvi file called Joe.Smith.dvi,
one might easilty infer that you are the author by looking into the postscript
file.
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Use care in referring to related past work, particularly your own, in the
paper. For example, if you are Joe Smith, the following text gives
away the authorship of the submitted paper:
In our previous work [1,2], we presented two models of an architecture
for ..... In this paper, we build on that work by ..
Bibliography
[1] Joe Smith, "A Simple Model of ....," Proceeedings of ACM Sigmetrics
1997, pp. 1 - 10.
[2] Joe Smith, "A Detailed Model of ....," Proceeedings of ACM
Sigmetrics 1998, pp., 34 - 44.
On the other hand, it is important to reference related past work in order
to set the context for the current paper. Thus, the following style
of writing (which preserves anonymity but leaves the reader unable to grasp
the context of the submitted paper) is also unacceptable and should be
avoided:
A good solution is to reference your past work in the third person (just
as you would any other piece of work that is related to the submitted paper).
This allows you to set the context for the submitted paper, while at the
same time preserving anonymity:
In previous work [1,2], the authors presented two models of an
architecture for ..... In this paper, we build on that work by ..
Bibliography
[1] Joe Smith, "A Simple Model of ....," Proceeedings of ACM Sigmetrics
1997, pp. 1 - 10.
[2] Joe Smith, "A Detailed Model of ....," Proceeedings of ACM
Sigmetrics 19987, pp., 34 - 44.
In the end, common sense and careful writing can go a long way towards
preserving anonymity. Remember - the goal is to preserve anonymity
while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context (related
past work, including your own) of the submitted paper.
Last update September 27, 1999
