How to get a number for a technical report
The procedure is explained in German on the following page: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/publikationen/techreports/richtlinien
Summary: you have to send an e-Mail to techreports@iam.unibe.ch and provide the following information:
- the names of the authors
- the title of the report
- the abstract
- a classification according to the classification systems of Computing Reviews (www.reviews.com) or the 'Zentralblatt' (www.emis.de/ZMATH/)
Computing Reviews Classification available at: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/signet/JHSI/cr.html