Thursday, December 28, 2006

ACM Categories and Subject Descriptors

This link contains information on what to write in the Categories and Subject Descriptors section of ACM papers. The sections are separated into a tree like structure.

For my stuff, I would write the following in latex:
\category{D.4.6}{Operating Systems}{Security and Protection}[Access Control]
\category{K.6.5}{Management of Computing and Information Systems} {Security and Protection}


This would turn out like:
D.4.6 [Operating Systems]: Security and Protection — Access Control ; K.6.5 [Management of Computing and Information Systems]: Security and Protection

Exact output would depend on which template you use.

5 comments:

Swaprava Nath said...

But how to know the numbers of a certain category or subject descriptor? e.g., wireless networking or stochastic geometry !!

Dana Zhang said...

There are links from
http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998/
that you can use to help you work that out. For example, you can see them all here
http://www.acm.org/about/class/ccs98-html
or use
http://portal.acm.org/ccs.cfm?part=author&coll=portal&dl=GUIDE
and iteratively click areas that sound like they could be related.

Swaprava Nath said...

Well, that helps. Thanks Dana !

abunoah said...

thanks for this Dana!!!

Steve said...

The joys of CRC deadlines