ase-supplementary

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Use when deciding what belongs in the 10-page ASE (IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering) paper body versus the artifact and supplementary material, splitting content by decision-criticality so nothing that decides acceptance lives outside the reviewed pages under the 10+2 budget.

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ASE Supplementary

Split content by decision-criticality. ASE gives you 10 pages of body (plus 2 for references), and reviewers judge the paper on those pages. The artifact and any supplementary material support reproduction and reuse — they do not carry the argument. The failure mode is exiling a decision-critical result to the artifact and assuming reviewers will dig for it; they judge what is in the body.

The decision-criticality rule

In the body (must be within 10 pages): anything a reviewer needs to accept the paper — the automated task, the technique, the headline results on real subjects, the closest baseline comparison, the key ablation, and the central threats argument.
In the artifact / supplement: everything needed to reproduce or reuse — full configurations, complete result tables, extra subjects, proofs, additional plots, raw logs, and cached model outputs.

If a result decides acceptance, it lives in the body even if space is tight; cut elsewhere.

What each container is for

Content	Where	Why
Task, technique, headline evaluation, closest-baseline comparison, key ablation	Body (≤10 pp)	Decision-critical; reviewers score these
Central threats-to-validity argument	Body	Construct/oracle validity is judged, not reproduced
Data Availability Statement	Body, after Conclusions, inside 10 pp	Mandatory and reviewed
Full config files, seeds, environment	Artifact	Reproduction detail, not an argument
Complete/extra result tables, extra subjects	Artifact / supplement	Support, not headline
Proofs, derivations too long for the body	Artifact / supplement (if the venue permits)	Verification detail
Raw logs, cached LLM outputs, dataset snapshots	Artifact	Provenance and reuse

The reviewer-behavior reality

Reviewers may open the artifact to check a claim, but they will not reconstruct a headline result from raw logs. State every acceptance-deciding number in the body with a pointer to where the artifact backs it.
A pointer to the artifact is a promise the body's claim is verifiable — not a substitute for stating the claim.
Keep the body self-contained: a reader who never opens the artifact should still be able to judge the contribution.

Anonymity across containers

The supplement and artifact are part of the double-anonymous submission: scrub tool names that encode your identity, repository owners, and file paths.
A result table in the artifact that reveals your institution's cluster paths is as much a leak as a name on the PDF.

Space-recovery moves (before cutting content)

[Figures]  merge redundant plots; one figure that carries the argument beats three that decorate.
[Tables]   move exhaustive per-subject tables to the artifact; keep the summary with effect sizes.
[Prose]    delete literature-tour sentences; related work is a delta argument, not a survey.
[Config]   move full configurations to the artifact; keep the one setting that matters in the body.
[Roadmap]  cut over-signposting; the arc should be visible without a paragraph announcing it.

Output format

[Decision-critical in body?] task / technique / headline results / baseline / key ablation / threats — all present within 10pp?
[Data Availability] in body, after Conclusions, inside 10pp?
[Artifact-only] configs / extra tables / proofs / logs / cached outputs -> not decision-critical?
[Self-contained] judgeable without opening the artifact? yes/no
[Anonymity] supplement + artifact scrubbed of identity? yes/no