tacas-camera-ready

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Use when preparing an accepted TACAS (ETAPS) paper for its Springer LNCS camera-ready, covering de-anonymization of a double-blind research paper, the llncs.cls format and LNCS metadata (ORCID, references, the Springer copyright/consent-to-publish form), the gold-open-access CC-BY licensing, integrating reviewer-required changes without scope creep, permanentizing artifact links, and adding earned ETAPS artifact badges to the title page.

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TACAS Camera Ready

Use this after acceptance. TACAS papers publish in Springer LNCS as a gold-open-access (CC-BY) volume, so the camera-ready is an LNCS production step with a Springer rights form, not just a formatting pass. Reopen the current LNCS author instructions, the acceptance email, and the ETAPS/TACAS artifact and registration pages before advising.

Camera-ready audit

De-anonymize (research papers only): a regular research paper was double-blind — restore the author block, affiliations, ORCIDs, acknowledgements, funding, and the real tool and repository names. A tool / case-study paper was single-blind and already named; just confirm correctness.
Apply the final LNCS format: llncs.cls, within the camera-ready page allowance stated in the acceptance letter (references and appendix handled per the current instructions).
Complete LNCS metadata: title/abstract, correct author order with ORCIDs, references consistent with DOIs where available, and the running head. LNCS metadata errors are harder to fix after publication than conference ones.
Integrate reviewer-required changes from the reviews and rebuttal faithfully — without strengthening claims beyond what was evaluated (or beyond what the artifact supports).
Add earned badges: if the AEC awarded Available / Functional / Reusable, add the badge(s) to the title page per the current guidelines.
Permanentize the artifact: replace any anonymized or placeholder location with a public, licensed, DOI-issuing archive (Zenodo/figshare/Software Heritage), and make the paper point at it.
Complete the Springer rights form: ETAPS proceedings are gold open access under CC-BY; submit the consent-to-publish / license form correctly so the paper is released open access with copyright retained by the authors.

De-anonymization sweep (research papers)

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

(A single-blind tool/case-study paper skips this sweep — it was never anonymized.)

LNCS production checks

[Template]   llncs.cls, current revision; no manual margin/font edits
[Metadata]   title, abstract, authors + ORCID, running head all entered and matching the PDF
[References] complete, consistent; DOIs where available; per the reference/appendix instructions
[Figures]    vector where possible; readable in print; captions self-contained
[Rights]     Springer consent-to-publish / CC-BY license form completed correctly
[Badges]     earned Available/Functional/Reusable badge(s) placed on the title page
[Links]      every artifact / benchmark link resolves from a logged-out browser

Worked example: integrating a reviewer-required fix

The reviewers required stating the timeout in the benchmark table and adding a validation note for the soundness claim. Camera-ready move: add the timeout and machine to the table caption, add one sentence pointing to the witness-validation script, restore the real tool name throughout (research paper), point the artifact reference at the now-public Zenodo DOI, and add the earned Functional badge to the title page — without expanding the claim the reviewers accepted.

Hedged logistics

Page allowances, metadata fields, the rights-form mechanics, badge placement, and exact camera-ready dates change each cycle; confirm against the decision email and current LNCS/ETAPS instructions rather than a prior year.

Output format

[Camera-ready status] ready / needs fixes / blocked
[Category] research (de-anonymize) / tool|case-study (already named)
[De-anonymization] author block / tool name / acks / links restored? yes/na
[LNCS metadata] ORCID / references / running head / rights form complete? yes/no
[Badges] earned badge(s) added to title page? yes/na
[Reviewer-change map] <required change -> final edit, no scope creep>
[Open science] anonymized/placeholder links replaced by DOI archive? yes/no