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Use when auditing an IEEE ICDE research-track submission for round choice, Microsoft CMT setup, conflict declarations, the IEEE 12-page format, single-blind requirements, supplemental-material availability, the June/November two-round calendar, desk-reject triggers, and final-week sequencing for a data-engineering systems paper.

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ICDE Submission

Use this for an ICDE research-track submission audit. Reopen the current edition's Call for Research Papers, Important Dates, and Submission Guidelines before giving deadline-ready advice; ICDE re-declares its rules on a fresh site each year.

Submission audit

Confirm the target track. ICDE runs a research track, an industry and applications track, plus demos/tutorials — route with icde-topic-selection before formatting.
Pick the round consciously. Each ICDE edition takes research papers in two rounds (ICDE 2027: Round 1 paper deadline June 11, 2026; Round 2 November 11, 2026). A paper rejected in Round 1 is not eligible for Round 2 — it waits for the next edition. Choose the round you can actually be ready for, not the nearest one.
Set up Microsoft CMT early: every co-author needs a CMT profile, and conflicts (domain and individual) are author-declared in CMT. A missing conflict is a review-integrity issue, not a formatting nit.
Apply the IEEE double-column template without margin, font, or spacing edits. Long research papers run to 12 pages plus unlimited references (short papers 6 pages plus references, per the ICDE 2026 wording — re-confirm for the current edition).
ICDE is single-blind: author names stay on the paper. Do not anonymize author identity, self-citations, or the repository — that is a SIGMOD reflex, wrong here.
Attach supplemental material (code, data, artifacts). Availability is explicitly considered in the evaluation, so an empty supplement is a scored weakness.
Check the original-work rule: no prior publication longer than roughly four double-column pages covering the same work.

Blocking risks

Submitting to a round the paper cannot be ready for, then being locked out of the same edition's second round after a Round 1 reject.
Overlength main text or an altered IEEE template.
Missing or wrong CMT conflict declarations for any co-author.
No supplemental material where the call expects availability evidence.
A systems claim with no operating point, tuned baselines missing, or cost undisclosed.

Desk-reject and triage table

Trigger	Severity at ICDE	Repair window
Overlength main text	Desk reject	None after the deadline
IEEE template tampering	Desk reject or chair flag	None
Missing CMT conflict for a co-author	Integrity flag, possible desk reject	Only before the deadline
Empty or unrunnable supplement	Scored weakness	Fixable before the deadline
Round-1 reject re-sent to Round 2	Administrative reject	None — wait for next edition
Unfalsifiable performance claim	Review-stage damage	Fixable in the writing/experiments pass

Final-week sequence for a systems paper

Freeze the mechanism description and the claims map so every figure has a home in the text.
Regenerate each figure and table from logged runs so the PDF and supplement cannot diverge.
Fill the supplement: run_all.sh, run_small.sh, a README that orients a reviewer in a minute, and the workload generators with their seeds.
Verify every co-author's CMT profile exists and all conflicts are filed.
Confirm the abstract in CMT matches the PDF abstract, and the paper is within 12 pages.

Format anchors

IEEE two-column layout is tight; wide system diagrams, algorithm blocks, and multi-series throughput plots that fit a one-column draft routinely overflow — compress early.
Every number in the pack (page limit, deadlines, blind policy) describes a specific edition; treat all of them as provisional and re-check the current call.

Output format

[ICDE readiness] Ready / Needs fixes / Not ready
[Round + track] <research/industry, Round 1 or Round 2, with source date>
[Blocking checks] <round-eligibility / page / CMT-conflicts / supplement / IEEE-format>
[Evidence risk] <one systems-evaluation issue>
[Desk-reject risk] <one issue>
[Fix order] <ordered fixes before the round deadline>