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name: mobisys-submission description: Use when auditing a MobiSys submission for HotCRP readiness — the paper-registration prerequisite, the single December UTC deadline, the 12-page double-column body including figures and tables, double-blind anonymity including device and trace giveaways, desk-reject triggers, and final-week submission sequencing.

MobiSys Submission

Use this for a MobiSys paper submission audit. Reopen the current Call for Papers, the mobisys<yy>.hotcrp.com/deadlines page, and the ACM template before giving deadline-ready advice.

Submission audit

• Confirm the target is the MobiSys main conference, not a workshop, poster, or demo track.
• Complete paper registration (title, abstract, authors, conflicts) before the registration cutoff that precedes the paper deadline — missing it forfeits the upload.
• Apply the current ACM double-column template without margin, font, or spacing hacks. MobiSys 2026 capped the body at 12 single-spaced numbered pages including figures and tables; references and appendices sit outside the cap.
• Enforce double-blind anonymity in the paper, appendix, supplement, demo media, code, file names, and metadata — including device serial numbers, account handles in screenshots, internal codenames, and repository owners in trace paths.
• Confirm concurrent-submission and prior-publication status; do not have the same work under review at another archival venue when the CFP forbids it.
• Verify the submission is on the correct per-edition HotCRP site and that the upload matches the registered abstract.

Blocking risks

• Missing paper registration, or a late upload against the single December UTC cutoff.
• Overlength body, or figures/tables that push past 12 pages (they count).
• Identity leak in the PDF, supplement, demo media, screenshots, or trace paths.
• Simulation-only evidence where on-device measurement is expected (mobisys-experiments).
• Dual submission to another archival venue.

Desk-reject and triage table

Trigger	Severity at MobiSys	Repair window
Overlength body (figures counted)	Desk reject	None after the deadline
Template tampering	Desk reject or chair flag	None
Identity leak in PDF, media, or trace paths	Desk reject	None
Missing paper registration	Cannot submit	Only before the registration cutoff
Undefined energy boundary / single-device result	Review-stage damage	Fixable only before the deadline

Final-week sequence for an on-device systems paper

1. Freeze the system and regenerate every figure from logged device runs so the PDF and artifact cannot diverge.
2. Run the anonymity sweep including screenshots, demo media, and trace-path device strings.
3. Confirm the 12-page body still holds after figure placement; move overflow to the appendix.
4. Strip PDF metadata, notebook authorship fields, and repository owner strings.
5. Confirm the HotCRP abstract matches the PDF abstract, then upload before the UTC cutoff — there is no second deadline this cycle.

Format anchors

• MobiSys uses a two-column ACM layout; wide device tables and multi-panel latency/energy plots that fit a one-column draft routinely overflow, so compress early rather than on deadline night.
• The page count and rules above describe the 2026 cycle; treat every number as provisional and recheck the current CFP before relying on it.

Output format

[MobiSys readiness] Ready / Needs fixes / Not ready
[Blocking checks] <registration/deadline/page/anonymity/evidence/dual-submission>
[On-device-evidence risk] <one issue>
[Desk-reject risk] <one issue>
[Fix order] <ordered fixes before submission>