CCS Camera Ready
Use this after acceptance or after clearing a minor revision. Reopen the current CCS camera-ready instructions, the ACM rights form, the registration page, and the notification or shepherd email before advising authors.
Camera-ready audit
- Convert the anonymous submission to the public proceedings version: author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, funding, and artifact links restored.
- Apply the ACM
sigconffinal template and the ACM rights-management block; the DOI, the conference reference string, and the copyright notice come from the ACM eRights system. - Incorporate exactly what the shepherd or the minor-revision decision required, without expanding the contribution beyond what was reviewed.
- Place any artifact-evaluation badges earned (Available, Functional, Reusable, Results Reproduced) as instructed; badge placement is part of the ACM camera-ready workflow.
- Confirm the final title and abstract match the HotCRP-registered title and abstract if the cycle froze them at registration.
- Coordinate disclosure timing: the public proceedings version and any released exploit or advisory should not appear before the agreed vendor-disclosure date.
Badge placement map
| Badge earned in artifact evaluation | Where it goes | What to confirm |
|---|---|---|
| Artifacts Available | First page, with the archival DOI/URL | The archive is public and permanent before camera-ready |
| Artifacts Evaluated - Functional | First page | The committee's functional result is final |
| Artifacts Evaluated - Reusable | First page | Documentation matches the reusable claim |
| Results Reproduced | First page | The reproduced results match the camera-ready numbers |
De-anonymization sweep
- Restore the author block, acknowledgements, grants, and contribution statements the anonymous version stripped.
- Rewrite third-person self-citations into natural first person where it improves clarity.
- Replace anonymized repository placeholders with the public, licensed, archived artifact and test every link from a logged-out browser.
- Re-check that de-anonymizing did not silently reveal an embargoed vendor before its patch.
ACM proceedings reflow
- Switching from the submission build to the final
sigconfbuild changes spacing; recheck every page break, protocol figure, and wide result table after adding the author block. - Material that fit the 12-page anonymous body can overflow once affiliations, acknowledgements, and the rights block are added; confirm the final length against the camera-ready page instruction rather than assuming.
- Keep theorem, protocol, and section numbering identical to the reviewed version so the meta-review and shepherd record stay traceable.
Worked example: integrating a shepherd requirement
The shepherd asked that the adaptive-attack results move from the appendix into the main evaluation. Camera-ready move: promote the adaptive table into Section 6, add one sentence interpreting the degraded defense numbers honestly, and leave the full attack derivation in the appendix — without strengthening any claim the reviewers did not see.
Hedged logistics
- Registration pricing, the exact camera-ready and rights-form deadlines, and badge-placement mechanics change every cycle; confirm against the notification email and current instructions.
Output format
text[Camera-ready status] Ready / Needs fixes / Blocked [Final package] <PDF / source / bib / ACM rights form / badges / artifacts> [Policy checks] <format / authors / disclosure timing / registration / presentation> [Reviewer-change map] <shepherd/revision requirement -> final edit> [Remaining owner] <person -> task>
