icsme-camera-ready

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Use when preparing an accepted IEEE ICSME paper for its IEEE Xplore camera-ready, covering de-anonymization, the IEEEtran two-column format and page budget, the IEEE eCopyright form, integrating the reviewer-required and author-response changes without scope creep, permanentizing data-availability links, and the ROSE-Festival artifact handoff.

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ICSME Camera Ready

Use this after acceptance. ICSME research papers publish in IEEE Xplore, so the camera-ready is an IEEE production step. There is no revision round, so the camera-ready is where you fold in the changes the reviews and your author response committed to — faithfully, without strengthening claims the PC did not evaluate. Reopen the current IEEE author instructions, the decision email, and the ROSE-Festival and registration pages before advising.

Camera-ready audit

De-anonymize completely: restore the author block, affiliations, acknowledgements, funding, the real tool and repository names, and the real subject-system names that double-anonymity forced you to hide or genericize.
Apply the final format: the IEEEtran two-column conference template, within the page budget (2026: 10 + 2 references), with any camera-ready allowance the acceptance letter states.
Complete IEEE metadata and rights: title/abstract, author order and affiliations, the IEEE copyright / eCopyright form, and the correct IEEE copyright notice on the first page. Add ORCID and index terms/keywords as the template requires.
Integrate reviewer-required and author-response changes faithfully — the clarifications and additions you committed to in the rebuttal — without expanding the claim beyond what was evaluated.
Permanentize open science: replace every anonymized artifact link with a public, licensed, DOI-issuing archive, and update the data-availability statement to point at it.
Confirm registration and presentation obligations; at least one author registers and presents.

De-anonymization sweep

Anonymized at submission	Restore at camera-ready	Watch for
Author block, affiliations, ORCID	Full, correctly ordered	Wrong author order breaks the IEEE Xplore citation
Tool / system name	Real name throughout text, figures, artifact	A leftover placeholder name in a caption
Own subject-system name (genericized)	Real system name where accurate	A generic descriptor surviving next to a real one
Acknowledgements, funding	Restored	Grant numbers required by funders
Self-citations (third person)	Natural first-person where it aids clarity	Over-correcting and double-citing
Artifact link	Public archive DOI	The old anonymized URL surviving in a footnote

IEEE Xplore production checks

[Template]   IEEEtran two-column conference, current revision; no manual margin/font edits
[Metadata]   title, abstract, authors+affiliations+ORCID, index terms all entered and matching PDF
[Rights]     IEEE eCopyright completed; correct copyright notice on the first page
[References] complete, consistent; DOIs where available; within the 2 reference pages
[Figures]    vector where possible; readable in two-column print; captions self-contained
[PDF]        IEEE PDF-eXpress / compliance check passed if required by the current instructions
[Links]      every data-availability and artifact link resolves from a logged-out browser

Worked example: folding in an author-response commitment

In the rebuttal you told the PC the held-out-system result was already in Table 3 and promised to make the construct-validity threat explicit. Camera-ready move: keep Table 3, add one bounding sentence to the threats section making the proxy limitation explicit, restore the real tool and system names in that table, and point the data-availability statement at the now-public artifact — without expanding the claim the PC accepted. Because there was no revision round, the camera-ready is the first and only place these promised edits actually land.

Artifact / ROSE handoff

The camera-ready and the ROSE-Festival artifact evaluation are separate deadlines (the artifact track is shared with SCAM and VISSOFT). Do not wait for the badge result to finalize the paper, but make the data-availability statement consistent with the IEEE badges you pursue (Open Research Object at minimum; Research Object Reviewed if the track grants it). Add any badge acknowledgement only per the current instructions.

Hedged logistics

Page allowances, IEEE rights-form mechanics, keyword/index-term requirements, and the exact camera-ready date change each cycle; confirm against the decision email and current IEEE instructions rather than a prior year. The ICSME 2026 camera-ready date is 待核实 on the access date.

Output format

[Camera-ready status] ready / needs fixes / blocked
[De-anonymization] author block / tool name / own-system name / acks / links restored? yes/no
[IEEE metadata] eCopyright / index terms / ORCID complete? yes/no
[Response-change map] <committed change -> final edit, no scope creep>
[Open science] anonymized links replaced by DOI archive? yes/no
[Remaining owner] <person -> task>