mobisys-camera-ready

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Use when preparing an accepted MobiSys paper for the ACM Digital Library camera-ready — de-anonymization, the ACM double-column final layout and 12-page budget, ACM rights and CCS metadata, delivering any results promised in the rebuttal, coordinating the three artifact badges, registration, and the June in-person talk and demo in Cambridge.

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MobiSys Camera Ready

Use this after acceptance. Reopen the current camera-ready instructions, the ACM rights form, the registration page, and the decision email before advising authors — dates and forms are cycle-specific.

Camera-ready audit

Convert the anonymous submission to the public ACM version: author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, funding, and de-anonymized code/data links.
Apply the current ACM double-column template and page budget. MobiSys 2026 kept a 12-page body including figures and tables; references and appendices sit outside the cap — confirm the final-version rule against the current instructions.
Deliver every result promised in the rebuttal; a promised camera-ready experiment that never appears is a credibility failure the AC may notice.
Complete ACM rights, the CCS concepts/keywords metadata, title/abstract/author-order metadata, and the bibliography.
Coordinate the three artifact badges so passing badges are printed on the paper and recorded in the ACM DL (mobisys-artifact-evaluation).
Confirm registration and the June in-person obligation; MobiSys expects at least one author to present.

What changes between the reviewed and final version

Element	Reviewed (anonymous)	Camera-ready (ACM)
Author block	Stripped	Restored with affiliations
Repository links	Anonymized placeholder	Public, licensed, archival
Screenshots / demo media	Blurred / de-identified	Restored, subject to vendor NDA
Rebuttal promises	Pending	Delivered in body/appendix
Metadata	Minimal	ACM rights + CCS concepts

De-anonymization sweep

Restore the author block, acknowledgements, grants, and any contribution statements the anonymous version stripped.
Replace anonymized repository placeholders with the public, licensed, archival artifact and test every link from a logged-out browser.
Un-blur screenshots and demo media, and restore device/vendor names where they were hidden for review — while respecting any vendor NDA on hardware details.

ACM double-column reflow

Switching the template from anonymous to final mode changes spacing; recheck every page break, figure placement, and wide device-table width after the flip.
Adding the author block, acknowledgements, and funding lines can push the body over budget; confirm the 12 pages still hold rather than assuming.
Keep figure, table, and section numbering identical to the reviewed version so the review and rebuttal record remain traceable to the final text.

Worked example: integrating a promised result

The rebuttal promised a fifth-device measurement to answer a generalization concern. Camera-ready move: add the device to the multi-device table and one sentence of interpretation, regenerate the figure from the artifact so numbers match, and note the device in App. A's provenance table — without restructuring the accepted contribution.

Camera-ready readiness

Final-package checklist:
  PDF: ACM double-column, 12-page body confirmed, numbering unchanged
  metadata: ACM rights, CCS concepts, author order, abstract
  promises: every rebuttal-promised result delivered
  artifacts: badges coordinated, repo de-anonymized and archival
  logistics: registration done, June presenter and demo assigned

Hedged logistics

Registration pricing, ACM rights/OA mechanics, and exact camera-ready dates change every cycle; confirm against the decision email and current instructions.

Output format

[Camera-ready status] Ready / Needs fixes / Blocked
[Final package] <PDF/metadata/ACM rights/artifacts>
[Policy checks] <page/authors/presentation/registration/badges>
[Promise delivery] <rebuttal promise -> final edit>
[Remaining owner] <person -> task>