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name: percom-camera-ready description: Use when preparing an accepted IEEE PerCom paper for its IEEE Xplore camera-ready, covering de-anonymization, the IEEEtran compsocconf template and page budget, IEEE Xplore metadata (PDF eXpress, eCopyright, ORCID, index terms), integrating reviewer-required changes without scope creep, permanentizing the dataset links, and IEEE production checks.

PerCom Camera Ready

Use this after acceptance. PerCom papers publish in IEEE Xplore, so the camera-ready is an IEEE production step with its own machinery — PDF eXpress compliance and the IEEE electronic copyright (eCopyright) form — not just a formatting pass. Reopen the current camera-ready instructions, the decision email, and the registration/presentation pages before advising.

Camera-ready audit

• De-anonymize completely: restore the author block, affiliations, ORCIDs, acknowledgements, funding, and the real testbed/system/dataset names that double-blind review forced you to hide.
• Apply the final format: IEEEtran \documentclass[10pt, conference, compsocconf]{IEEEtran}, within the current page budget (9+1) plus any camera-ready allowance the acceptance letter states.
• Complete IEEE Xplore metadata: title/abstract, author order and ORCIDs, and IEEE index terms / keywords (and ACM CCS concepts if requested). Journal-grade metadata errors are harder to fix after publication than they look.
• Pass PDF eXpress: validate the final PDF through IEEE PDF eXpress for Xplore-compatible fonts and embedding; a PDF that fails eXpress will not be accepted for the proceedings.
• Complete the IEEE eCopyright form: the correct copyright/rights statement must appear on the first page as the form dictates.
• Integrate reviewer-required changes faithfully — without strengthening claims beyond what was evaluated in the (single-round) review.
• Permanentize open data: replace every anonymized dataset/code link with a public, licensed, DOI-issuing archive, and update the availability statement to point at it.
• Confirm registration and in-person presentation: at least one author registers and presents; remote/pre-recorded presentation is not permitted except in stated special circumstances.

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
Testbed / system / dataset name	Real name throughout text, figures, dataset	A leftover placeholder in a caption or figure
Acknowledgements, funding	Restored	Grant numbers required by funders
Self-citations (third person)	Natural first-person where it aids clarity	Over-correcting and double-citing
Dataset/code link	Public archive DOI (IEEE DataPort / Zenodo)	The old anonymized URL surviving in a footnote
Sensor-rig / deployment photos	Real photos if desired	A face or building that needs consent to publish

IEEE Xplore production checks

[Template]   IEEEtran compsocconf, current revision; no manual margin/font edits; 10pt two-column
[Metadata]   title, abstract, authors+ORCID, index terms/keywords entered and matching the PDF
[PDF eXpress] final PDF validated and Xplore-compatible (fonts embedded)
[eCopyright]  IEEE electronic copyright form completed; correct rights line on the first page
[References] complete, consistent; DOIs where available; within the 1 reference page
[Figures]    vector where possible; readable in print greyscale; captions self-contained
[Links]      every dataset/code link resolves from a logged-out browser

Worked example: integrating a rebuttal-driven clarification

The reviewers asked you to make the cross-subject nature of the headline result explicit. Camera- ready move: reorder §4.1 so the leave-one-subject-out F1 leads and the pooled number is clearly secondary, restore the real system name in that table, point the availability statement at the now-public IEEE DataPort dataset, and add the ORCID and index terms — without expanding the claim beyond what the single review round evaluated.

Dataset-release handoff

The camera-ready and any dataset/artifact deposit are related but separate tasks. Do not let the paper's availability statement promise more than the public dataset delivers: align the statement with what you actually deposit (a de-identified dataset under an open license with a DOI), and note honestly anything (raw video, re-identifiable traces) that stays restricted and why (percom-reproducibility, percom-artifact-evaluation).

Hedged logistics

• Page allowances, metadata fields, PDF eXpress and eCopyright mechanics, and exact camera-ready dates change each cycle; confirm against the decision email and current instructions rather than a prior year. Whether a reproducibility-badge track runs is 待核实 per edition.

Output format

[Camera-ready status] ready / needs fixes / blocked
[De-anonymization] author block / system name / acks / links restored? yes/no
[IEEE metadata] ORCID / index terms / eCopyright / PDF eXpress passed? yes/no
[Reviewer-change map] <required change -> final edit, no scope creep>
[Open data] anonymized links replaced by DOI archive? yes/no
[Remaining owner] <person -> task>