Final submissions must be Portable Document Format (PDF). If you don't have a converter, free programs for converting MS Word and postscript documents to PDF are available here and here. You paper should be submitted electronically before 23:59 on December 15, 1999. Please follow these instructions for submitting your paper:

1. Set up an ftp connection to www.coral.cs.cmu.edu (name: wire, pwd: wire2000). Here is an example from a unix machine:

   		> ftp www.coral.cs.cmu.edu
                   Name (www.coral.cs.cmu.edu:): wire
                   Password: wire2000
                   230 User wire logged in.
                   Remote system type is UNIX.
                   Using binary mode to transfer files.
                   ftp> 
   		

2. Change to the papers directory and "put" your paper there:

   		ftp> cd papers
   		250 CWD command successful.
   		ftp> put balcht.pdf
   		local: balcht.pdf remote: balcht.pdf
   		200 PORT command successful.
   		150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for balcht.pdf.
   		226 Transfer complete.
   		997 bytes sent in 5e-05 secs (1.9e+04 Kbytes/sec)
   		ftp> 
   		

3. Send email to trb@cs.cmu.edu with the following subject line and information:

   		subject: wire2000 submission: yourpaper.pdf
   		title of paper: Your Paper Title
   		corresponding author: Your Name
   		email: you@yourplace.edu
   		filename of paper: yourpaper.pdf
   		

Authors will be notified of the disposition of their papers by February 7, 2000. Final camera-ready copy will be due by March 10, 2000.

If you have any difficulties or questions, please contact:

trb@cs.cmu.edu
(412) 268-1780