HotSoS 2016 -- Impending Deadline and Important Information

Dear SoS Community,

This is a reminder of the deadlines for the HotSoS 2016 conference. Most importantly, papers are due on Friday 22 Jan 2016.

Here are some late-breaking points of clarification regarding the call:

• Submission format. Submissions should be at most 10 pages in double-column ACM format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) including the bibliography or, alternatively, 9 pages not including the bibliography. The paper may have optional appendices, but reviewers are not required to read them. Submissions may optionally be submitted in anonymized form (avoiding de-anonymizing through references), and we will attempt to support this in the review process. All submissions must be in PDF format.
• Simultaneity. Submissions should not be submitted to any other conference or workshop while under review. HOTSoS will take all measures to preserve confidentiality, but reserves the right to consult confidentially with other chairs and responsible parties if a double submission is suspected. We will not, however, reject a paper solely on the basis of the existence of an unrefereed technical report or short workshop paper. 
• Posters and tutorials. We are also accepting proposals for posters and tutorials. Please put the word "poster" or "tutorial" in the title or abstract so that we will understand that your submission is intended to be a poster. Poster and tutorial submissions should not be longer than 5 pages. Tutorial submissions should include a detailed syllabus of material to be presented.
• Authors with questions are encouraged to write to the PC chairs before submission with any questions. Because these changes are late-breaking, some exceptions may be granted on explicit request by email to hotsos-chair@cs.cmu.edu

The full Call for Papers can be found at http://cps-vo.org/group/hotsos/cfp.

Regards,

HotSoS 2016 Committee