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2017 Formatting Instructions

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AAAI Press

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

2275 East Bayshore Road, Suite 160

Palo Alto, California 94303

Abstract

AAAI creates proceedings, working notes, and technical re-

ports directly from electronic source furnished by the authors.

To ensure that all papers in the publication have a uniform ap-

pearance, authors must adhere to the following instructions.

Congratulations on having a paper selected for inclusion in

an AAAI Press proceedings or technical report! This doc-

ument details the requirements necessary to get your ac-

cepted paper published using L

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crosoft Word, instructions are provided in a different doc-

ument. If you want to use some other formatting software,

you must obtain permission from AAAI Press first.

The instructions herein are provided as a general guide for

experienced L

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to format their paper for an AAAI Press publication or re-

port. If you are not an experienced L

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to format your paper. AAAI cannot provide you with support

and the accompanying style files are not guaranteed to work.

If the results you obtain are not in accordance with the spec-

ifications you received, you must correct your source file to

achieve the correct result.

These instructions are generic. Consequently, they do not

include specific dates, page charges, and so forth. Please

consult your specific written conference instructions for de-

tails regarding your submission. Please review the entire

document for specific instructions that might apply to your

particular situation. All authors must comply with the fol-

lowing:

•You must use the latest AAAI Press L

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•Download the author kit.

•Complete, sign, and return by the deadline the AAAI

copyright form (proceedings authors) or distribution li-

cense (technical report authors).

•Read and format your paper source and PDF according to

the formatting instructions for authors.

•Submit your electronic files and abstract using our elec-

tronic submission form on time.

Copyright c

2017, Association for the Advancement of Artificial

Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.

•Submit your copyright form, and any required page or for-

matting charges to AAAI Press so that they are received

by the deadline.

•Check every page of your paper before submitting it.

Copyright

All papers submitted for publication by AAAI Press must

be accompanied by a valid signed copyright form or, in the

case of technical reports, by a valid signed permission to

distribute form. There are no exceptions to this requirement.

You must send us the original version of this form. However,

to meet the deadline, you may fax (1-650-321-4457) or scan

and e-mail the form (pubforms17@aaai.org) to AAAI by the

submission deadline, and then mail the original via postal

mail to the AAAI office. If you fail to send in a signed

copyright or permission form, your paper will not be

published. You will find PDF versions of the AAAI copy-

right and permission to distribute forms in the author kit.

Formatting Requirements in Brief

We need source and PDF files that can be used in a variety

of ways and can be output on a variety of devices. AAAI im-

poses some requirements on your source and PDF files that

must be followed. Most of these requirements are based on

our efforts to standardize conference manuscript properties

and layout. These requirements are as follows, and all papers

submitted to AAAI for publication must comply:

•Your .tex file must compile in PDFL

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.eps figure files.

•All fonts must be embedded in the PDF file — this in-

cludes your figures.

•Modifications to the style sheet (or your document) in an

effort to avoid extra page charges or make your paper fit

are NOT allowed.

•No type 3 fonts may be used (even in illustrations).

•Your title must follow Title Case capitalization rules (not

sentence case).

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package (do not use Computer Modern for the text of your

paper).

•No L

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•Your source must not require use of fonts for non-Roman

alphabets within the text itself. If your paper includes

symbols in other languages (such as, but not limited to

Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Russian and other

Cyrillic languages), you must restrict their use to figures.

•Fonts that require non-English language support (CID

and Identity-H) must be converted to outlines or 300 dpi

bitmap or removed from the document (even if they are in

a graphics file embedded in the document).

•Two-column format in AAAI style is required for all pa-

pers.

•The paper size for final submission must be US letter. No

exceptions.

•The source file must exactly match the PDF.

•The document margins must be as specified in the format-

ting instructions.

•The number of pages and the file size must be as specified

for your event.

•No document may be password protected.

•Neither the PDFs nor the source may contain any embed-

ded links or bookmarks.

•Your source and PDF must not have any page numbers,

footers, or headers.

•Your PDF must be compatible with Acrobat 5 or higher.

•Your L

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sist of a single file (use of the “input” command is not

allowed.

•Your graphics must be sized appropriately outside of

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If you do not follow the above requirements, it is likely

that we will be unable to publish your paper.

What Files to Submit

You must submit the following items to ensure that your pa-

per is published:

•A fully-compliant PDF file.

•Your L

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not use the “input” command to include sections of your

paper — every section must be in the single source file).

The only exception is the bibliography, which you may

include separately. Your source must compile on our sys-

tem, which includes the standard L

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•All your graphics files.

•The L

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your compiled source.

•All the nonstandard style files (ones not commonly found

in standard L

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(including, for example, old algorithm style files). If in

doubt, include it.

Your L

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our system (if it does not compile, you may incur late fees).

Do not submit your source in multiple text files. Your sin-

gle L

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ography (formatted using aaai.bst), and any custom macros.

Accompanying this source file, you must also supply any

nonstandard (or older) referenced style files and all your ref-

erenced graphics files.

Your files should work without any supporting files (other

than the program itself) on any computer with a standard

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single tar, zipped, gzipped, stuffed, or compressed archive.

Name your source file with your last (family) name.

Do not send files that are not actually used in the pa-

per. We don’t want you to send us any files not needed for

compiling your paper, including, for example, this instruc-

tions file, unused graphics files, standard style files, and so

forth.

Obsolete style files. The commands for some common

packages (such as some used for algorithms), may have

changed. Please be certain that you are not compiling your

paper using old or obsolete style files.

Using L

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The latest version of the AAAI style file is available on

AAAI’s website. Download this file and place it in the T

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search path. Placing it in the same directory as the paper

should also work. You must download the latest version of

the complete author kit so that you will have the latest in-

struction set and style file.

Document Preamble

In the L

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lowing lines as shown in the example in this subsection. This

command set-up is for three authors. Add or subtract author

and address lines as necessary, and uncomment the portions

that apply to you. In most instances, this is all you need to

do to format your paper in the Times font. The helvet pack-

age will cause Helvetica to be used for sans serif. These files

are part of the PSNFSS2e package, which is freely available

from many Internet sites (and is often part of a standard in-

stallation).

Leave the setcounter for section number depth com-

mented out and set at 0 unless you want to add section num-

bers to your paper. If you do add section numbers, you must

uncomment this line and change the number to 1 (for sec-

tion numbers), or 2 (for section and subsection numbers).

The style file will not work properly with numbering of sub-

subsections, so do not use a number higher than 2.

If (and only if) your author title information will not

fit within the specified height allowed, put \setlength

\titlebox2.5in in your preamble. Increase the height until the

height error disappears from your log. You may not use the

\setlength command elsewhere in your paper, and it may not

be used to reduce the height of the author-title box.

\documentclass[letterpaper]article

%Required Packages

\usepackage{aaai}

\usepackage{times}

\usepackage{helvet}

\usepackage{courier}

\setlength{\pdfpagewidth}{8.5in}

\setlength{\pdfpageheight}{11in}

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%PDFINFO for PDFL

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% Uncomment and complete the following for metadata

(your paper must compile with PDFL

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\pdfinfo{

/Title (Input Your Paper Title Here)

/Author (John Doe, Jane Doe)

/Keywords (Input your paper’s keywords in this optional

area)

}

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%Section Numbers

% Uncomment if you want to use section numbers

% and change the 0 to a 1 or 2

%\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}

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%Title, Author, and Address Information

\title{Title}

\author{Author 1 \and Author 2\\

Address line\\

Address line\\

\And

Author 3\\

Address line\\

Address line}

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%Body of Paper Begins

\begin{document}

\maketitle

...

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%References and End of Paper

\bibliography{Bibliography-File}

\bibliographystyle{aaai}

\end{document}

Inserting Document Metadata with L

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PDF files contain document summary information that en-

ables us to create an Acrobat index (pdx) file, and also al-

lows search engines to locate and present your paper more

accurately. Document Metadata for Author and Title are

REQUIRED.

If your paper includes illustrations that are not compatible

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to convert them. The epstopdf package will usually work

for eps files. You will need to convert your ps files to PDF

however.

Important: Do not include any L

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characters (including accented characters) in the metadata.

The data in the metadata must be completely plain ascii. It

may not include slashes, accents, linebreaks, unicode, or any

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paper (minus all formatting). Input the author names in the

order in which they appear on the paper (minus all accents),

separating each author by a comma. You may also include

keywords in the Keywords field.

Preparing Your Paper

After the preamble above, you should prepare your paper as

follows:

\begin{document}

\maketitle

...

\bibliography{Bibliography-File}

\bibliographystyle{aaai}

\end{document}

Incompatible Packages

The following packages are incompatible with aaai.sty

and/or aaai.bst and must not be used (this list is not exhaus-

tive — there are others as well):

•authblk

•fullpage

•hyperref

•natbib

•geometry

•titlesec

•layout

•caption

•titlesec

•savetrees

•T1 fontenc package (install the CM super fonts package

instead)

Illegal Commands

The following commands may not be used in your paper

(this list is exhaustive — there are others; generally, if it al-

ters aaai.sty, it isn’t acceptable):

• \input

• \vspace or vskip (when used before or after a section or

subsection)

• \addtolength

• \columnsep

• \top margin (or text height or addsidemargin or even side

margin)

•trim or clip (used to crop figures)

•any command that globally alters floats, space above and

below figures and tables

Paper Size, Margins, and Column Width

Papers must be formatted to print in two-column format on

8.5 x 11 inch US letter-sized paper. The margins must be

exactly as follows:

•Top margin: .75 inches

•Left margin: .75 inches

•Right margin: .75 inches

•Bottom margin: 1.25 inches

The default paper size in most installations of L

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A4. However, because we require that your electronic pa-

per be formatted in US letter size, you will need to alter

the default for this paper to US letter size. Assuming you

are using the 2e version of L

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cluding the [letterpaper] option at the beginning of your file:

\documentclass[letterpaper]article.

This command is usually sufficient to change the

format. Sometimes, however, it may not work. Use

PDFL

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\setlength{\pdfpageheight}{11in}in your preamble.

Do not use the Geometry package to alter the page

size. Use of this style file alters aaai.sty and will result in

your paper being rejected.

Column Width and Margins. To ensure maximum read-

ability, your paper must include two columns. Each column

should be 3.3 inches wide (slightly more than 3.25 inches),

with a .375 inch (.952 cm) gutter of white space between

the two columns. The aaai.sty file will automatically create

these columns for you.

Overlength Papers

If your paper is too long, turn on \frenchspacing, which

will reduce the space after periods. Next, shrink the size of

your graphics. Use \centering instead of \begin{center}in

your figure environment. For mathematical environments,

you may reduce fontsize. You may also alter the size

of your bibliography by inserting \fontsize{9.5pt}{10.5pt}

\selectfont right before the bibliography (the minimum size

is \fontsize{9.0pt}{10.0pt}.

Commands that alter page layout are forbidden. These

include \columnsep, \topmargin, \topskip, \textheight,

\textwidth, \oddsidemargin, and \evensizemargin (this list

is not exhaustive). If you alter page layout, you will be re-

quired to pay the page fee plus a reformatting fee. Other

commands that are questionable and may cause your paper

to be rejected include \parindent, and \parskip. Commands

that alter the space between sections are forbidden. The ti-

tle sec package is not allowed. Regardless of the above, if

your paper is obviously “squeezed” it is not going to to be

accepted. Before using every trick you know to make your

paper a certain length, try reducing the size of your graphics

or cutting text instead or (if allowed) paying the extra page

charge.

Figures

Your paper must compile in PDFL

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your figures must be .jpg, .png, or .pdf. You may not use

the .gif (the resolution is too low), .ps, or .eps file format for

your figures.

When you include your figures, you must crop them out-

side of L

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viewport 0 0 10 10]... might result in a PDF that looks great,

but the image is not really cropped. The full image can

reappear (and obscure whatever it is overlapping) when page

numbers are applied or color space is standardized.

Type Font and Size

Your paper must be formatted in Times Roman or Nimbus.

We will not accept papers formatted using Computer Mod-

ern or Palatino or some other font as the text or heading type-

face. Sans serif, when used, should be Courier. Use Symbol

or Lucida or Computer Modern for mathematics only.

Do not use type 3 fonts for any portion of your paper,

including graphics. Type 3 bitmapped fonts are designed

for fixed resolution printers. Most print at 300 dpi even if

the printer resolution is 1200 dpi or higher. They also often

cause high resolution imagesetter devices and our PDF in-

dexing software to crash. Consequently, AAAI will not ac-

cept electronic files containing obsolete type 3 fonts. Files

containing those fonts (even in graphics) will be rejected.

Fortunately, there are effective workarounds that will pre-

vent your file from embedding type 3 bitmapped fonts. The

easiest workaround is to use the required times, helvet, and

courier packages with L

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in this way will still use Computer Modern for the mathe-

matics. To make the math look good, you’ll either have to

use Symbol or Lucida, or you will need to install type 1

Computer Modern fonts — for more on these fonts, see the

section “Obtaining Type 1 Computer Modern.”)

If you are unsure if your paper contains type 3 fonts, view

the PDF in Acrobat Reader. The Properties/Fonts window

will display the font name, font type, and encoding proper-

ties of all the fonts in the document. If you are unsure if your

graphics contain type 3 fonts (and they are PostScript or en-

capsulated PostScript documents), create PDF versions of

them, and consult the properties window in Acrobat Reader.

The default size for your type should be ten-point with

twelve-point leading (line spacing). Start all pages (except

the first) directly under the top margin. (See the next sec-

tion for instructions on formatting the title page.) Indent ten

points when beginning a new paragraph, unless the para-

graph begins directly below a heading or subheading.

Obtaining Type 1 Computer Modern for L

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you use Computer Modern for the mathematics in your

paper (you cannot use it for the text) you may need

to download type 1 Computer fonts. They are available

without charge from the American Mathematical Society:

http://www.ams.org/tex/type1-fonts.html.

Title and Authors

Your title must appear in mixed case (nouns, pronouns, and

verbs are capitalized) near the top of the first page, cen-

tered over both columns in sixteen-point bold type (twenty-

four point leading). This style is called “mixed case.” Au-

thor’s names should appear below the title of the paper, cen-

tered in twelve-point type (with fifteen point leading), along

with affiliation(s) and complete address(es) (including elec-

tronic mail address if available) in nine-point roman type

(the twelve point leading). (If the title is long, or you have

many authors, you may reduce the specified point sizes by

up to two points.) You should begin the two-column format

when you come to the abstract.

Formatting Author Information Author information can

be set in a number of different styles, depending on the num-

ber of authors and the number of affiliations you need to dis-

play. For several authors from the same institution, use \and:

\author{Author 1 \and ... \and Author n\\

Address line \\ ... \\ Address line}

If the names do not fit well on one line use:

\author{Author 1}\\

{\bf Author 2}\\ ... \\ {\bf Author n}\\

Address line \\ ... \\ Address line}

For authors from different institutions, use \And:

\author{Author 1\\ Address line \\ ... \\ Address line

\And ... \And Author n\\

Address line\\ ... \\ Address line}

To start a separate “row” of authors, use \AND:

\author{Author 1\\ Address line \\ ... \\ Address line\\

\AND

Author 2 \\ Address line \\ ... \\ Address line\\

\And

Author 3 \\ Address line \\ ... \\ Address line\\

}

If the title and author information does not fit in the

area allocated, place \setlength\titlebox{height}after the

\documentclass line where {height}is 2.5in or greater.

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The copyright notice automatically appears if you use

aaai.sty. If you are creating a technical report, it is not nec-

essary to include this notice. You may disable the copyright

line using the \nocopyrightcommand. To change the entire

text of the copyright slug, use: \copyrighttext {text}. Either

of these must appear before \maketitle. Please be advised,

however, that if you disable or change the copyright line and

transfer of copyright is required, your paper will not be pub-

lished.

Credits

Any credits to a sponsoring agency should appear in the ac-

knowledgments section, unless the agency requires different

placement. If it is necessary to include this information on

the front page, use \thanks in either the \author or \title

commands. For example:

\title{Very Important Results in AI\thanks{This work is sup-

ported by everybody.}}

Multiple \thanks commands can be given. Each will result in

a separate footnote indication in the author or title with the

corresponding text at the botton of the first column of the

document. Note that the \thanks command is fragile. You

will need to use \protect.

Please do not include \pubnote commands in your docu-

ment.

Abstract

Follow the example commands in this document for creation

of your abstract. Further indentation is not required. Do not

include references in your abstract!

Page Numbers

Do not ever print any page numbers on your paper.

Text

The main body of the paper must be formatted in ten-point

with twelve-point leading (line spacing).

Citations

Citations within the text should include the author’s last

name and year, for example (Newell 1980). Append lower-

case letters to the year in cases of ambiguity. Multiple au-

thors should be treated as follows: (Feigenbaum and Engel-

more 1988) or (Ford, Hayes, and Glymour 1992). In the case

of four or more authors, list only the first author, followed by

et al. (Ford et al. 1997).

Extracts

Long quotations and extracts should be indented ten points

from the left and right margins.

This is an example of an extract or quotation. Note the

indent on both sides. Quotation marks are not necessary

if you offset the text in a block like this, and properly

identify and cite the quotation in the text.

Footnotes

Avoid footnotes as much as possible; they interrupt the read-

ing of the text. When essential, they should be consecu-

tively numbered throughout with superscript Arabic num-

bers. Footnotes should appear at the bottom of the page, sep-

arated from the text by a blank line space and a thin, half-

point rule.

Headings and Sections

When necessary, headings should be used to separate major

sections of your paper. Remember, you are writing a short

paper, not a lengthy book! An overabundance of headings

will tend to make your paper look more like an outline than

a paper. The aaai.sty package will create headings for you.

Do not alter their size nor their spacing above or below.

Section Numbers The use of section numbers in AAAI

Press papers is optional. To use section numbers in L

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uncomment the setcounter line in your document preamble

and change the 0 to a 1 or 2. Section numbers should not be

used in short poster papers.

Section Headings. Sections should be arranged and

headed as follows:

Acknowledgments. The acknowledgments section, if in-

cluded, appears after the main body of text and is headed

“Acknowledgments.” This section includes acknowledg-

ments of help from associates and colleagues, credits to

sponsoring agencies, financial support, and permission to

publish. Please acknowledge other contributors, grant sup-

port, and so forth, in this section. Do not put acknowledg-

ments in a footnote on the first page. If your grant agency

requires acknowledgment of the grant on page 1, limit the

footnote to the required statement, and put the remaining

acknowledgments at the back. Please try to limit acknowl-

edgments to no more than three sentences.

Appendices. Any appendices follow the acknowledg-

ments, if included, or after the main body of text if no ac-

knowledgments appear.

References The references section should be labeled

“References” and should appear at the very end of the paper

(don’t end the paper with references, and then put a figure by

itself on the last page). A sample list of references is given

later on in these instructions. Please use a consistent format

for references. Poorly prepared or sloppy references reflect

badly on the quality of your paper and your research. Please

prepare complete and accurate citations.

Illustrations and Figures

Figures, drawings, tables, and photographs should be placed

throughout the paper near the place where they are first dis-

cussed. Do not group them together at the end of the pa-

per. If placed at the top or bottom of the paper, illustrations

may run across both columns. Figures must not invade the

top, bottom, or side margin areas. Figures must be inserted

using the \usepackage{graphicx}. Number figures sequen-

tially, for example, figure 1, and so on.

The illustration number and caption should appear under

the illustration. Labels, and other text with the actual illus-

tration must be at least nine-point type.

Low-Resolution Bitmaps. You may not use low-

resolution (such as 72 dpi) screen-dumps and GIF

files—these files contain so few pixels that they are always

blurry, and illegible when printed. If they are color, they

will become an indecipherable mess when converted to

black and white. This is always the case with gif files, which

should never be used. The resolution of screen dumps can be

increased by reducing the print size of the original file while

retaining the same number of pixels. You can also enlarge

files by manipulating them in software such as PhotoShop.

Your figures should be 300 dpi when incorporated into your

document.

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sometimes put portions of the figure or table or an equation

in the margin. If this happens, you need to scale the figure or

table down, or reformat the equation. Check your log file!

You must fix any overflow into the margin (that means no

overfull boxes in L

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simply be eliminated. Nothing is permitted to intrude into

the margin or gutter.

Using Color. Your paper will be printed in black and

white and grayscale. Consequently, because conversion to

grayscale can cause undesirable effects (red changes to

black, yellow can disappear, and so forth), we strongly sug-

gest you avoid placing color figures in your document. Of

course, any reference to color will be indecipherable to your

reader.

Drawings. We suggest you use computer drawing soft-

ware (such as Adobe Illustrator or, (if unavoidable), the

drawing tools in Microsoft Word) to create your illustra-

tions. Do not use Microsoft Publisher. These illustrations

will look best if all line widths are uniform (half- to two-

point in size), and you do not create labels over shaded ar-

eas. Shading should be 133 lines per inch if possible. Use

Times Roman or Helvetica for all figure call-outs. Do not

use hairline width lines — be sure that the stroke width of

all lines is at least .5 pt. Zero point lines will print on a laser

printer, but will completely disappear on the high-resolution

devices used by our printers.

Photographs and Images. Photographs and other images

should be in grayscale (color photographs will not reproduce

well; for example, red tones will reproduce as black, yellow

may turn to white, and so forth) and set to a minimum of 300

dpi. Do not prescreen images.

Resizing Graphics. Resize your graphics before you in-

clude them with LaTeX. You may not use trim or clip op-

tions as part of your \includgraphics command. Resize the

media box of your PDF using a graphics program instead.

Fonts in Your Illustrations You must embed all fonts in

your graphics before including them in your LaTeX docu-

ment.

References

The aaai.sty file includes a set of definitions for use in for-

matting references with BibTeX. These definitions make the

bibliography style fairly close to the one specified below.

To use these definitions, you also need the BibTeX style file

“aaai.bst,” available in the author kit on the AAAI web site.

Then, at the end of your paper but before \enddocument,

you need to put the following lines:

\bibliographystyle{aaai} \bibliography{bibfile1,bibfile2,...}

The list of files in the \bibliography command should be

the names of your BibTeX source files (that is, the .bib files

referenced in your paper).

The following commands are available for your use in cit-

ing references:

\cite: Cites the given reference(s) with a full citation. This ap-

pears as “(Author Year)” for one reference, or “(Author Year;

Author Year)” for multiple references.

\shortcite: Cites the given reference(s) with just the year. This

appears as “(Year)” for one reference, or “(Year; Year)” for

multiple references.

\citeauthor: Cites the given reference(s) with just the author

name(s) and no parentheses.

\citeyear: Cites the given reference(s) with just the date(s)

and no parentheses.

Warning: The aaai.sty file is incompatible with the hy-

perref and natbib packages. If you use either, your references

will be garbled and your paper will not be published.

Formatted bibliographies should look like the following

examples.

Book with Multiple Authors

Engelmore, R., and Morgan, A. eds. 1986. Blackboard Sys-

tems. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.

Journal Article

Robinson, A. L. 1980a. New Ways to Make Microcircuits

Smaller. Science 208: 1019–1026.

Magazine Article

Hasling, D. W.; Clancey, W. J.; and Rennels, G. R. 1983.

Strategic Explanations in Consultation. The International

Journal of Man-Machine Studies 20(1): 3–19.

Proceedings Paper Published by a Society

Clancey, W. J. 1983b. Communication, Simulation, and In-

telligent Agents: Implications of Personal Intelligent Ma-

chines for Medical Education. In Proceedings of the Eighth

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence,

556–560. Menlo Park, Calif.: International Joint Confer-

ences on Artificial Intelligence, Inc.

Proceedings Paper Published by a Press or Publisher

Clancey, W. J. 1984. Classification Problem Solving. In Pro-

ceedings of the Fourth National Conference on Artificial In-

telligence, 49–54. Menlo Park, Calif.: AAAI Press.

University Technical Report

Rice, J. 1986. Poligon: A System for Parallel Problem Solv-

ing, Technical Report, KSL-86-19, Dept. of Computer Sci-

ence, Stanford Univ.

Dissertation or Thesis

Clancey, W. J. 1979b. Transfer of Rule-Based Expertise

through a Tutorial Dialogue. Ph.D. diss., Dept. of Computer

Science, Stanford Univ., Stanford, Calif.

Forthcoming Publication

Clancey, W. J. 1986a. The Engineering of Qualitative Mod-

els. Forthcoming.

Producing Reliable PDF

Documents with L

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Generally speaking, PDF files are platform independent and

accessible to everyone. When creating a paper for a proceed-

ings or publication in which many PDF documents must be

merged and then printed on high-resolution PostScript RIPs,

several requirements must be met that are not normally of

concern. Thus to ensure that your paper will look like it does

when printed on your own machine, you must take several

precautions:

•Use type 1 fonts (not type 3 fonts)

•Use only standard Times, Nimbus, and CMR font pack-

ages (not fonts like F3 or fonts with tildes in the names or

fonts—other than Computer Modern—that are created for

specific point sizes, like Times˜19) or fonts with strange

combinations of numbers and letters

•Embed all fonts when producing the PDF

•Do not use the [T1]fontenc package (install the CM super

fonts package instead)

Creating Output Using PDFL

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By using the PDFT

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gether (unless you use a package that calls for metafont).

PDFL

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from L

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that all your graphics and images must be available in a for-

mat that PDFL

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PDFL

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fonts. If you find that it is not doing so in your case, it is

likely that one or more fonts are missing from your system

or are not in a path that is known to PDFL

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dvipdf Script Scripts such as dvipdf which ostensibly by-

pass the Postscript intermediary should not be used since

they generally do not instruct dvips to use the config.pdf file.

dvipdfm Do not use this dvi-PDF conversion package.

Ghostscript

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Graphics

If you are still finding type 3 fonts in your PDF file, look at

your graphics! L

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graphics files as well for font problems.

Proofreading Your PDF

Please check all the pages of your PDF file. Is the page size

A4? Are there any type 3, Identity-H, or CID fonts? Are all

the fonts embedded? Are there any areas where equations

or figures run into the margins? Did you include all your

figures? Did you follow mixed case capitalization rules for

your title? Did you include a copyright notice? Do any of

the pages scroll slowly (because the graphics draw slowly

on the page)? Are URLs underlined and in color? You will

need to fix these common errors before submitting your file.

Improperly Formatted Files

In the past, AAAI has corrected improperly formatted files

submitted by the authors. Unfortunately, this has become an

increasingly burdensome expense that we can no longer ab-

sorb. Consequently, if your file is improperly formatted, it

will not be included in the publication. If time allows, how-

ever, you will be notified via e-mail (with a copy to the pro-

gram chair) of the problems with your file and given the op-

tion of correcting the file yourself (and paying a late fee)

or asking that AAAI have the file corrected for you, for an

additional fee. If you opt to correct the file yourself, please

note that we cannot provide you with any additional advice

beyond that given in your packet. Files that are not corrected

after a second attempt will not be included in the publica-

tion.

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If you use L

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paper. Convert your paper to L

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Naming Your Electronic File

We request that you name your L

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last name (family name) so that it can easily be differenti-

ated from other submissions. If you name your files with the

name of the event or “aaai” or “paper” or “camera-ready”

or some other generic or indecipherable name, you bear all

risks of loss — it is extremely likely that your file may be

overwritten.

Submitting Your Electronic Files to AAAI

Submitting your files to AAAI is a two-step process. It is

explained fully in the author registration and submission in-

structions. Please consult this document for details on how

to submit your paper.

Inquiries

If you have any questions about the preparation or submis-

sion of your paper as instructed in this document, please

contact AAAI Press at the address given below. If you have

technical questions about implementation of the aaai style

file, please contact an expert at your site. We do not provide

technical support for L

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To avoid problems, please keep your paper simple, and do

not incorporate complicated macros and style files.

AAAI Press

2275 East Bayshore Road, Suite 160

Palo Alto, California 94303

Telephone: (650) 328-3123

E-mail: See the submission instructions for your par-

ticular conference or event.

Additional Resources

L

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that software, and this document didn’t help or some

items were not explained clearly, we recommend you read

Michael Shell’s excellent document (testflow doc.txt V1.0a

2002/08/13) about obtaining correct PS/PDF output on

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general application as well). It is available at www.ctan.org

in the tex-archive.

Acknowledgments

AAAI is especially grateful to Peter Patel Schneider for his

work in implementing the aaai.sty file, liberally using the

ideas of other style hackers, including Barbara Beeton. We

also acknowledge with thanks the work of George Ferguson

for his guide to using the style and BibTeX files — which

has been incorporated into this document — and Hans Gues-

gen, who provided several timely modifications, as well as

the many others who have, from time to time, sent in sug-

gestions on improvements to the AAAI style.

The preparation of the L

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plement these instructions was supported by Schlumberger

Palo Alto Research, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Morgan Kauf-

mann Publishers, The Live Oak Press, LLC, and AAAI

Press. Bibliography style changes were added by Sunil Is-

sar. \pubnote was added by J. Scott Penberthy. George Fer-

guson added support for printing the AAAI copyright slug.

Additional changes to aaai.sty and aaai.bst have been made

by the AAAI staff.

Thank you for reading these instructions carefully. We look

forward to receiving your electronic files!