| name | icsme-camera-ready |
| description | Use when preparing an accepted IEEE ICSME paper for its IEEE Xplore camera-ready, covering de-anonymization, the IEEEtran two-column format and page budget, the IEEE eCopyright form, integrating the reviewer-required and author-response changes without scope creep, permanentizing data-availability links, and the ROSE-Festival artifact handoff. |
ICSME Camera Ready
Use this after acceptance. ICSME research papers publish in IEEE Xplore, so the camera-ready is
an IEEE production step. There is no revision round, so the camera-ready is where you fold in the
changes the reviews and your author response committed to — faithfully, without strengthening claims
the PC did not evaluate. Reopen the current IEEE author instructions, the decision email, and the
ROSE-Festival and registration pages before advising.
Camera-ready audit
- De-anonymize completely: restore the author block, affiliations, acknowledgements, funding,
the real tool and repository names, and the real subject-system names that double-anonymity forced
you to hide or genericize.
- Apply the final format: the IEEEtran two-column conference template, within the page budget
(2026: 10 + 2 references), with any camera-ready allowance the acceptance letter states.
- Complete IEEE metadata and rights: title/abstract, author order and affiliations, the IEEE
copyright / eCopyright form, and the correct IEEE copyright notice on the first page. Add ORCID and
index terms/keywords as the template requires.
- Integrate reviewer-required and author-response changes faithfully — the clarifications and
additions you committed to in the rebuttal — without expanding the claim beyond what was evaluated.
- Permanentize open science: replace every anonymized artifact link with a public, licensed,
DOI-issuing archive, and update the data-availability statement to point at it.
- Confirm registration and presentation obligations; at least one author registers and presents.
De-anonymization sweep
| Anonymized at submission | Restore at camera-ready | Watch for |
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| Author block, affiliations, ORCID | Full, correctly ordered | Wrong author order breaks the IEEE Xplore citation |
| Tool / system name | Real name throughout text, figures, artifact | A leftover placeholder name in a caption |
| Own subject-system name (genericized) | Real system name where accurate | A generic descriptor surviving next to a real one |
| Acknowledgements, funding | Restored | Grant numbers required by funders |
| Self-citations (third person) | Natural first-person where it aids clarity | Over-correcting and double-citing |
| Artifact link | Public archive DOI | The old anonymized URL surviving in a footnote |
IEEE Xplore production checks
[Template] IEEEtran two-column conference, current revision; no manual margin/font edits
[Metadata] title, abstract, authors+affiliations+ORCID, index terms all entered and matching PDF
[Rights] IEEE eCopyright completed; correct copyright notice on the first page
[References] complete, consistent; DOIs where available; within the 2 reference pages
[Figures] vector where possible; readable in two-column print; captions self-contained
[PDF] IEEE PDF-eXpress / compliance check passed if required by the current instructions
[Links] every data-availability and artifact link resolves from a logged-out browser
Worked example: folding in an author-response commitment
In the rebuttal you told the PC the held-out-system result was already in Table 3 and promised to
make the construct-validity threat explicit. Camera-ready move: keep Table 3, add one bounding
sentence to the threats section making the proxy limitation explicit, restore the real tool and
system names in that table, and point the data-availability statement at the now-public artifact —
without expanding the claim the PC accepted. Because there was no revision round, the camera-ready is
the first and only place these promised edits actually land.
Artifact / ROSE handoff
The camera-ready and the ROSE-Festival artifact evaluation are separate deadlines (the artifact
track is shared with SCAM and VISSOFT). Do not wait for the badge result to finalize the paper, but
make the data-availability statement consistent with the IEEE badges you pursue (Open Research
Object at minimum; Research Object Reviewed if the track grants it). Add any badge acknowledgement
only per the current instructions.
Hedged logistics
- Page allowances, IEEE rights-form mechanics, keyword/index-term requirements, and the exact
camera-ready date change each cycle; confirm against the decision email and current IEEE
instructions rather than a prior year. The ICSME 2026 camera-ready date is 待核实 on the access
date.
Output format
[Camera-ready status] ready / needs fixes / blocked
[De-anonymization] author block / tool name / own-system name / acks / links restored? yes/no
[IEEE metadata] eCopyright / index terms / ORCID complete? yes/no
[Response-change map] <committed change -> final edit, no scope creep>
[Open science] anonymized links replaced by DOI archive? yes/no
[Remaining owner] <person -> task>
