1. Send e-mail to vicjkim@ece.nwu.edu to get a technical report number. Make sure that you submit the technical report WITHIN A WEEK using the following instructions. If you forget to send your report within a week, you will be notified and the assigned number will be reassigned to someone else.

[Note: For people who already have technical report numbers assigned to them, please use the following guidelines to submit the report immediately. Otherwise, the report number will be reassigned to someone else.]

2. Use the following latex commands after \begin{document} in your latex file.

***** FILL IN *****
a. Title of the paper,
b. author(s)
c. CPDC technical report number.
d. Date of publication

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\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{figure*}[htbp]
\begin{center}
{\Large \bf Title of the paper} \\ % <--------
{\em Authors} \\ % <-----------
\vspace*{2in}
{\bf Technical Report No. } \\ %<----
% Example: Technical Report No. CPDC-TR-9801-005
\copyright 1999 Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing \\
[Date of Publication] % <-----------
\end{center}
\vspace*{3in}
\begin{center}
{\Large \bf \sl Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing} \\
Department of Electrical \& Computer Engineering \\
Northwestern University \\
Technological Institute \\
2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston IL-60208 \\
\end{center}
\end{figure*}
\clearpage
\newpage
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3. Latex the modified file and e-mail vicjkim@ece.nwu.edu providing the path where your gzipped postscript is kept, ([filename].ps.gz). Make sure it is in a directory that can be read atleast for a while, to copy the file on the CPDC web.
% latex [filename]
% dvips [filename]
% gzip [filename.ps]

4. Make an ascii text abstract of the paper in a separate file naming it [report no.].abs. Keep it in the same area as your gzipped ps file. Make sure that the abstract has the TITLE and the AUTHOR(S) of the report.

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