Posting your Article for ETAI Review

• First Publication Archives: The article is published (without review) by an organization that commits to keeping it on-line for a long period (at least 20 years) and in a secure way.

• Computing Research Repository (CoRR): The article is issued as a department technical report and is deposited in the newly-organized Computing Research Repository (CoRR).

• Posted Copy of Printed Article: The article has already been published in a conference proceedings; the author puts a copy of it on-line on his or her home page on the web, and some safety measures (backup, etc) are taken to verify that the on-line version is identical to the one in the conference proceedings.

Here's what you have to do as an author in each of these cases:

• First Publication Archives: Get in touch with one of the ETAI approved FPA's, and arrange to have your article published there. If your own university or institute has its own FPA, then talk to them, otherwise contact the ETAI secretariat for assistance.

  The FPA method is easy to use if your article has been prepared using Latex, since then it is only a question of reformatting it with the ETAI standard style file (plus making those corrections that may be necessary because of the change of linewidth etc). If you have prepared your manuscript using Word or Framemaker, or if you have it in HTML form, then the matter is slightly more complicated but it can still be done.

• Computing Research Repository: This method can be used if your department or institute has an organized system for publishing technical reports in electronic form.

  In this case, you can choose the format required or recommended for the tech-report series, as long as it uses a reasonable size (A4 or American letter size paper). You are also welcome to use the ETAI style file if you wish; this has the advantage that the article is then ready for ETAI journal publication after acceptance.

• Posted Copy of Printed Article: This method can be used if you are submitting an article that has already been published in a widely available conference proceedings, and you can also put it on-line (e.g. on your web page), and if it is consistent with your agreement with the publisher of the conference proceedings that you do so. In this case, you have to sign a simple statement confirming that these conditions apply, that you will keep the article on-line at least for the duration of the reviewing period, and that you approve a certain backup arrangement.

You are welcome to use whichever method is the most convenient for you.