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name: sigmetrics-camera-ready description: Use when preparing an accepted ACM SIGMETRICS paper for its POMACS camera-ready, covering de-anonymization, the acmsmall template and POMACS journal metadata (DOI, ORCID, CCS concepts), incorporating the shepherd's required changes without scope creep, permanentizing artifact links, and the ACM artifact-badge handoff.

SIGMETRICS Camera Ready

Use this after acceptance. SIGMETRICS research papers are published as POMACS journal articles, so the camera-ready is a journal production step, and it runs through shepherding: an accepted paper is shepherded to ensure the reviewers' required changes land in the final version. Reopen the current POMACS author instructions, the shepherd's list, and any artifact-track page before advising.

Camera-ready audit

• De-anonymize completely: restore the author block, affiliations, acknowledgements, funding, and the real system and trace names that double-anonymity forced you to hide (the Operational Systems Track may already have named them).
• Apply the final format: the ACM acmsmall single-column template, within the page allowance the acceptance/shepherd instructions state.
• Complete POMACS journal metadata: title/abstract, author order, ORCIDs, ACM CCS concepts and keywords, and the DOI-bearing citation once assigned. Journal metadata errors are harder to fix after publication than conference ones.
• Incorporate the shepherd's required changes faithfully — the shepherd verifies that specific reviewer requests are in the final version — without strengthening claims beyond what was evaluated.
• Permanentize reproducibility: replace every anonymized artifact link with a public, licensed, DOI-issuing archive, and make sure the seeded simulator, proofs, and processed data are the reviewed versions.
• Confirm registration and presentation obligations; at least one author presents at SIGMETRICS.

De-anonymization sweep

Anonymized at submission	Restore at camera-ready	Watch for
Author block, affiliations, ORCID	Full, correctly ordered	Wrong author order breaks the DOI citation
System / tool name	Real name throughout text, figures, artifact	A leftover placeholder in a caption or a plot legend
Trace / dataset provenance	Real source named, with access terms	A provenance string still pointing at an anonymizing host
Acknowledgements, funding	Restored	Grant numbers required by funders
Self-citations (third person)	Natural first-person where it aids clarity	Over-correcting and double-citing

POMACS production checks

[Template]   acmsmall single-column, current revision; no manual margin/font edits
[Metadata]   title, abstract, authors+ORCID, CCS concepts, keywords all entered and matching PDF
[References] complete, consistent; DOIs where available (references are unlimited pages)
[Figures]    vector where possible; readable in print; analysis-vs-simulation overlays legible
[Proofs]     final proof appendix matches the shepherded theorem statements and assumptions
[Rights]     ACM e-rights/copyright form completed; correct rights statement on the first page
[Links]      every artifact/data link resolves from a logged-out browser

Worked example: incorporating a shepherd's required change

The shepherd required moving an assumption-validity check from a footnote into the model section and adding the goodness-of-fit figure. Camera-ready move: place the assumption check in the model section with the QQ-plot, restore the real trace name and its access terms, confirm the theorem statement and proof appendix still match, and point the artifact link at the now-public DOI archive — without expanding the bound the reviewers accepted.

Artifact-badge handoff

Where an artifact track runs, badges are typically pursued around acceptance and are separate from the shepherded camera-ready. Make the paper's reproducibility statement consistent with the badges you are pursuing (Available at minimum; Functional/Reusable/Reproduced if the track grants them), and add any badge acknowledgement only per the current instructions.

Hedged logistics

• Page allowances, metadata fields, rights-form mechanics, shepherding timelines, and exact camera-ready dates change each cycle; confirm against the acceptance email, the shepherd's instructions, and current POMACS guidelines rather than a prior year.

Output format

[Camera-ready status] ready / needs fixes / blocked
[De-anonymization] author block / system name / trace provenance / acks / links restored? yes/no
[POMACS metadata] ORCID / CCS / keywords / rights form complete? yes/no
[Shepherd-change map] <required change -> final edit, no scope creep>
[Reproducibility] anonymized links replaced by DOI archive? proofs/simulator final? yes/no
[Remaining owner] <person -> task>