All those attending DAC will shortly receive an email providing access details to all the conference papers. This lets everyone skim read papers before the conference. Why? Because in short paper sessions authors only get 15 minutes in which to present their work, in long paper sessions this is 20 - 25 minutes. This means no one will be reading their paper but will instead be talking to their key points, and will assume that a) everyone has skimmed the work before hand, b) is then reasonably familiar with the content, and c) lets the conference concentrate on dialogue around these ideas rather than their representation (they're written and available, let's add to that when we're all together).
The long papers are in their final format, the short papers have not had their final polish added yet, some their formatting (per the conference paper stylesheet) will be variable.
All papers will be publicly available after the conference via this site after the conference.
Posted by amiles at May 12, 2003 09:22 AM