sensys-camera-ready
DocumentsUse when preparing an accepted SenSys camera-ready — de-anonymizing the double-column ACM final, completing ACM rights and metadata, restoring acknowledgments, landing the awarded ACM artifact badges onto the paper, releasing traces and firmware within their constraints, and planning the in-person talk and demo for the merged audience.
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SenSys Camera-Ready
Acceptance flips the paper from anonymous-under-review to a permanent ACM DL record. The camera-ready is a checklist of irreversible steps: de-anonymize completely, get the ACM rights and metadata exactly right, land any artifact badges onto the printed paper, and prepare to present to a room that now spans the merged SenSys/IPSN/IoTDI communities. A metadata or rights slip here is corrected only by a painful post-publication erratum.
De-anonymize completely
Everything double-blind suppressed now goes back — and nothing may be missed:
[ ] Author names, affiliations, and emails restored on the paper.
[ ] Acknowledgments and funding/grant numbers added back.
[ ] Self-citations returned to first person where natural.
[ ] Artifact links de-blinded to their permanent public homes (with DOIs).
[ ] PDF metadata now correctly names authors (was scrubbed for review).
Run the inverse of the submission blindness sweep: the risk now is an un-restored acknowledgment or a still-anonymized repo link, not a leak.
ACM rights and metadata
The ACM e-rights process gates the final. Complete it precisely:
| Item | Action | Failure cost |
|---|---|---|
| e-rights form | Choose the license/transfer the process offers; get the exact rights text + DOI | Wrong rights block on the PDF |
| Rights stamp | Paste ACM's rights text and conference string verbatim into the template | Reprint / erratum |
| Author metadata | Names, affiliations, ORCIDs match the form and the PDF | ACM DL record errors |
| Title/abstract | Match the accepted paper exactly | Indexing mismatch |
| Template version | Use the ACM double-column version the CFP names (待核实 per cycle) | Production rejection |
Extra camera-ready pages are sometimes granted for reviewer-requested additions; confirm the exact allowance for the cycle before spending them.
Coordinate the artifact badges onto the paper
If you pursued badges (sensys-artifact-evaluation), the camera-ready is where awarded badges are
attached to the printed paper and the ACM DL metadata. Confirm:
[ ] Each awarded badge (Available / Functional / Reproduced) appears on the final PDF.
[ ] The permanent artifact DOI in the paper matches the archived deposit.
[ ] Released traces/firmware honor their consent/NDA/location constraints (sensys-reproducibility).
[ ] The public repo README maps claims → the script/trace that reproduces each figure.
Do not release sensor data, firmware, or deployment locations you have not cleared — the public release is permanent.
Plan the talk and demo
SenSys is in-person; presenting to the merged audience means a room with sensor-networks, embedded, IoT, and on-device-AI expertise all present:
- Lead with the physical problem, not the architecture — the same first-page arc as the paper
(
sensys-writing-style), compressed to a few minutes. - Show the measurement, not just the claim: a power trace or a latency CDF lands harder than a bullet saying "efficient."
- A live or recorded demo of the node/deployment is unusually persuasive at SenSys; if you demo, rehearse the failure modes (a dead battery on stage is avoidable).
- Anticipate the merged audience's questions: an IPSN-rooted reviewer asks about the protocol; an IoTDI-rooted one about deployment; an embedded-AI one about footprint. Have all three ready.
Final camera-ready sequence
1. De-anonymize fully; inverse blindness sweep passes.
2. ACM e-rights complete; rights text + DOI stamped verbatim in the template.
3. Metadata (authors, ORCIDs, title, abstract) matches the form and PDF.
4. Awarded badges + artifact DOI on the final PDF; public release cleared.
5. Compile in the correct template version; re-read the produced PDF.
6. Talk + demo built from the measured-behavior arc; merged-audience Q&A prepared.
Output format
[Deanon] de-anonymization complete? un-restored items listed
[Rights] ACM e-rights done; rights text + DOI stamped — pass/gap
[Metadata] authors/ORCIDs/title/abstract consistent across form and PDF
[Badges] awarded badges + artifact DOI on the final; release cleared
[Talk] talk/demo built from the measured-behavior arc; Q&A ready
[Open] the one irreversible item still unconfirmed before the deadline