/ccs-camera-ready

name: ccs-camera-ready
description: Use when preparing an accepted ACM CCS paper for the ACM Digital Library proceedings, covering de-anonymization, the ACM sigconf final format, ACM rights and eRights forms, badge placement from artifact evaluation, incorporation of shepherd and minor-revision requirements, disclosure-timing coordination, registration, and in-person presentation.

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 `sigconf` final 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 `sigconf` build 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

[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>