icdm-camera-ready

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Use when preparing the ICDM (IEEE International Conference on Data Mining) camera-ready after acceptance - IEEE final formatting and eCopyright, de-anonymizing a triple-blind paper, handling an Accept-as-Short outcome by compressing to short-paper length, registering for in-person presentation, and getting the paper into IEEE Xplore.

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ICDM Camera-Ready

Turn an accepted ICDM paper into the published IEEE version. Three things make ICDM's camera-ready distinctive: you de-anonymize a paper written triple-blind, you may need to compress to short-paper length if the outcome was Accept-as-Short, and publication runs through IEEE (eCopyright, IEEE Xplore) with a mandatory in-person presentation. Verify every deadline and the exact short-paper page length on the current call — these are 待核实.

De-anonymize deliberately

The triple-blind submission hid your identity everywhere; camera-ready is where it comes back.

Restore author names, affiliations, and ORCIDs in the IEEE author block.
Restore acknowledgements and funding/grant numbers.
Rewrite third-person self-citations to first person where natural ("we previously showed").
De-anonymize the cited repository: point it at the real, named project and add the README acknowledgements you stripped for review.

Handle Accept-as-Short

If the notification said "accepted as a short paper," the camera-ready is a compression job, not a formatting job:

Keep in the short body	Move to the repository / cut
The named mechanism and its statement	Full proofs, extended derivations
The single strongest experiment	Secondary experiments and extra datasets
The core discovery-validity argument	Long protocol detail, ablation appendices
A pruned related-work contrast	Padding, background everyone knows

Use the compression map you prepared during icdm-supplementary; the mechanism must survive at short length, with overflow cited in the (now de-anonymized) repository.

IEEE production steps

Camera-ready checklist (verify order/deadlines on the current call):
  1. Recompile in the IEEE two-column template WITHOUT the anonymous/review options.
  2. Fit the final page limit (regular vs short; short length is 待核实).
  3. Run the IEEE PDF validation/eXpress check if required for the proceedings.
  4. Complete IEEE eCopyright / electronic copyright transfer.
  5. Add author block, acknowledgements, funding, ORCIDs, de-anonymized repo link.
  6. Register at least one author for in-person presentation (required to appear).
  7. Upload by the camera-ready deadline; confirm the Xplore-bound final PDF.

Presentation and publication

At least one author must register and present in person in Shenyang for the paper to be included in the proceedings and program.
Accepted papers are published by IEEE and indexed on IEEE Xplore and dblp; the camera-ready is the version of record, so proofread it as final.

Vignette: a de-anonymization that leaked the wrong way

A team rushed camera-ready and left one figure's caption reading "results from the anonymized system," while restoring author names in the header — an inconsistent half-de-anonymization that looked careless in the published record. The fix is a single pass: sweep every "anonymous," "our system (name withheld)," and third-person self-citation, restore the real names and the real repository link, then recompile without the review options and re-read the whole PDF once as the permanent Xplore version.

Output format

[Outcome] Accept (regular) / Accept-as-Short
[De-anonymized] names / acks / funding / self-cites / repo link: complete / gaps
[Length] within regular or short page limit (short = 待核实): pass / over
[IEEE steps] template / eCopyright / PDF check / registration: done / pending
[Presentation] in-person author registered: yes / no
[Final read] whole PDF proofed as the Xplore version of record: yes / no