Technical Report Information
Technical Report Coordinator: Dr. Daniel Joyce, daniel.joyce@villanova.edu
Goals: Our Technical Report series allows Villanova Computing Sciences' professors and students to disseminate the results of their research quickly. Internal review provides quality control, ensuring the value of each report to the CS community. By providing an alternative to journal/conference publication we allow authors to receive timely feedback on their work, a crucial tool for making progress in the fast-paced world of CS.
Approach: Our Technical Report page (see link below) contains the list of technical reports, organized sequentially by year and alphabetically by author within a year. All reports are archived as PDF files in ACM's CoRR (Computing Research Repository). Archived reports can be reached by clicking on their title on the Technical Report page.
Submission by Faculty: Any faculty member may submit a technical report to our series. Follow the directions below. If you need assistance, contact the Technical Report Coordinator.
Submission by Students: Student reports must be sponsored by a faculty member. The most common source of technical reports are graduate students, who create a report as part of their culminating Independent Study project. In this case, their report must be approved by their Independent Study advisor, who should inform the Technical Report Coordinator of the approval.
Material Required For Submission:
- Title and Author Information
- A short abstract (about 100 words) for our Technical Report page (plain text only)
- A longer abstract (no more than 500 words) for the ACM page (plain text probably works best here also)
- The report in a PDF file
Submission Steps:
- If you are a student, contact the Technical Report Coordinator to make sure your report has been approved by your advisor.
- Register with the on-line repository by sending an email to cs@arXiv.org with the Subject tag of "register" (without the quote marks).
- You will receive a reply by email with a userid/password, plus instructions how to complete your registration and submit a report.Use the userid/password to complete your registration at http://arXiv.org/register.
- For your "Organization" please use Villanova University.
- Register for the "Group" cs.
- You do not need to fill in any of the "optional" information, unless you want to change your username/password.
- Do not forget to click the "Update my record" button.
- Now submit your paper at http://arXiv.org/submit.
- Use your archive userid/password to obtain access.
- Enter title and author information.
- In the "Comments" field it is useful to state how many pages your pdf file contains.
- You must classify your paper as best you can using both the archive's subject/class approach and the standard ACM classification scheme.
- Copy your long abstract into the appropriate field.
- Enter the local path to your pdf file into the appropriate field.
- Double check everything and then complete the submission.
- You will be taken to a confirmation screen. Record/print the info from the confirmation screen. You should also receive a confirmation by email. You can now check the appearance of your submission by following their directions. For the next 24 hours you can easily make changes to your submission. After that, it is more difficult to make changes, so be sure to check your submission as soon as possible.
- After you are sure everything is OK, and the 24 hour period has passed, click here to fill out the form and submit your report to the department website. You will need the following information:
- Title, Author, and Advisor (if appropriate)
- Your short abstract (as plain text only please)
- The paper number sent to you by the archive (it will look something like this "cs.NI/0303020").
Links:
- Villanova Computing Sciences Technical Reports page
- Villanova Computing Sciences Graduate Independent Studies page
- ACM's CoRR (Computing Research Repository)
- Computer Science technical reports at other institutions:
Send questions and comments to daniel.joyce@villanova.edu