aaai-camera-ready

# AAAI Camera Ready Use this after AAAI acceptance. Reopen the current camera-ready email, publication/attendance page, author kit, copyright instructions, and proceedings source-file requirements. ## Camera-ready checklist - Apply the current AAAI proceedings template and page rules. AAAI-27 allocates accepted main-track papers 7 proceedings pages plus up to 2 acknowledgement/reference pages, with an option to purchase up to two additional technical-content pages at $300 each. Camera-ready source files are due 2026-12-14. - Prepare source files as required: LaTeX or Word source, figures, bibliography, style files, and a high-resolution PDF. - Add author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, funding, and ethical disclosures where required. - Keep all references from the submitted paper unless superseded, and explain major citation updates conservatively. - Resolve reviewer-facing clarity issues without changing the scientific identity of the paper. - Complete copyright transfer and any AAAI Digital Library metadata. - Ensure at least one author registers and presents the paper, unless current exceptional-circumstance procedures apply. ## AAAI Press production gotchas AAAI Press compiles the proceedings from your source, so a PDF that looks fine locally can still be kicked back. The two-column AAAI style is strict about a few things that trip up authors arriving from single-column or NeurIPS-style submissions: - Do not alter margins, font sizes, or column gap; AAAI explicitly forbids style hacks to gain space. If you need room, purchase technical pages instead of shrinking the template. - Disable `\pdfoutput` overrides and embed all fonts; non-embedded fonts are a common rejection. - Move references and acknowledgments into the pages that do not count against the technical limit, per the current rule, rather than padding the main body. - Restore author block, funding, and ethics statements that were stripped for double-blind review. ## Deanonymization sweep Acceptance reverses the anonymity discipline: now identity must be present and correct, while stale blind-mode placeholders must go. Walk the paper, supplement, and code for "Anonymous", redacted citations to your own prior work, and `\\if-blind` toggles still set to blind. ## Worked vignette A knowledge-representation paper lands at 7.5 technical pages after restoring the author block and an ethics statement. Decision: it cannot shrink the template, so the author buys one extra technical page (within the current cap), keeps references on the non-counting pages, and re-runs the deanonymization sweep before uploading source to AAAI Press. ## Release plan - Replace anonymous code/data links with durable public repositories or archives. - Publish a project page only if it is stable, accurate, and does not overclaim beyond the paper. - Preserve a copy of the submitted PDF, reviews, rebuttal, accepted PDF, source package, and artifact release for future journal extensions. ## Output format ```text [Camera-ready state] Ready / Needs fixes / Blocked [Proceedings files] <PDF/source/bib/figures/supplement> [Page status] within limit / extra pages needed / over limit [Publication obligations] copyright / registration / presentation / metadata [Final fixes] <ordered list before upload> ```