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name: eurosys-submission description: Use when auditing a EuroSys submission before a HotCRP upload — abstract registration versus full-paper gates, the 12-page technical-content budget with free references, the acmart sigplan review/anonymous template and text block, double-blind hygiene, and the CFP warning that formatting or anonymization violations are not reviewed.

EuroSys Submission

Run this audit before touching the round's HotCRP instance. Anchors below are the EuroSys 2027 cycle as rendered on 2026-07-08 from 2027.eurosys.org/cfp.html and the eurosys27-spring / eurosys27-fall HotCRP sites. EuroSys reissues its CFP per edition and per round, so the live CFP always outranks this file.

The two gates of a round

Each EuroSys round opens with abstract registration one week before the paper deadline. Registration is where the title, abstract, author list, topics, and conflicts become fixed inputs to reviewer assignment; the paper upload a week later only swaps in the PDF.

2027 fall round item	Value (verified 2026-07-08)
Abstract registration	September 17, 2026, AoE
Full paper	September 24, 2026, AoE
Portal	eurosys27-fall.hotcrp.com
Notification	January 29, 2027

The spring 2027 round (abstracts May 7, papers May 14, 2026) has already closed as of 2026-07-08, so a new submission today is a fall-round submission.

Length and layout rules

• 12 pages of technical content, maximum. References ride free — as many pages as needed. Do not starve the bibliography to rescue a figure.
• Paper size A4 or US letter, with every character and figure inside a 178 x 229 mm (7 x 9 in) block, two columns separated by at least 8 mm.
• LaTeX authors are pointed at acmart with the sigplan option, in review mode:

\documentclass[sigplan,twocolumn,review,anonymous]{acmart}
% Use the paper ID issued at abstract registration, not author names:
\acmSubmissionID{123}

• The CFP states that submissions violating the formatting or anonymization rules will not be considered for review. At EuroSys this is not an idle threat — it is the cheapest filter the chairs have across two rounds of load.

Anonymity as EuroSys defines it

The standard asked for is a good-faith effort, judged by whether identity leaks "explicitly or by implication":

• No names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or grant IDs anywhere in the PDF.
• Third-person self-citation; never "as we showed in [7]".
• Scrub PDF metadata and embedded file properties before upload.
• If the paper describes a deployment only your organization runs, abstract the operator without inventing data.
• Linked repositories must be anonymized mirrors, not lab GitHub accounts.

Pre-upload checklist

Check	Pass condition
Abstract registered on time	HotCRP entry exists before the abstract gate
Page budget	≤ 12 pages before the references begin
Text block	Nothing outside 178 x 229 mm; column gap ≥ 8 mm
Template mode	review,anonymous options active; paper ID on page 1
Identity sweep	Metadata, acknowledgments, self-citations, repo links clean
Dual submission	Not concurrently under review at another archival venue
Resubmission legality	Not a same-season EuroSys reject from the previous edition
Topics and conflicts	Complete in HotCRP, since assignment runs off them

That resubmission row is EuroSys-specific: a paper rejected at a given round may not return until the same round of the next edition, so confirm the manuscript's EuroSys history before registering it (see eurosys-review-process).

Habits imported from other venues that break here

• From USENIX venues: expecting a single-column submission format or an appendix allowance — EuroSys reviews in the two-column ACM layout, and anything beyond references needs the round's explicit permission (待核实).
• From NeurIPS-style venues: expecting a checklist to carry the reproducibility story — EuroSys has no checklist ritual; the evidence discipline lives in the paper and the artifact instead.
• From journals: expecting to update the manuscript during review — between the paper gate and notification the PDF is frozen; plan the submission as final, not as an opening bid.
• From single-deadline conferences: treating the abstract gate as optional paperwork — at EuroSys it fixes reviewer bidding inputs, and a sloppy registered abstract buys mismatched reviewers.

HotCRP field audit

The PDF is half the submission; the form is the other half.

• Title and abstract in HotCRP must match the PDF exactly — divergence confuses bidding and looks careless at PC time.
• Topic selections drive assignment within a broad PC; choose the two or three that name the paper's jury, not every topic it touches.
• Conflicts: declare per the CFP's definition, comprehensively, once — chairs audit both missing and padded conflict lists.
• Author list completeness at registration matters even though reviewers never see it: it is the basis of conflict screening.
• Any round-specific questions (artifact intent, ethics statements, AI-use declarations — 待核实 per round) get real answers, not placeholders.

Last-72-hours order of operations

1. Freeze the evaluation numbers; regenerate every plot from the frozen data.
2. Rebuild with the review-mode template and re-check the page count — review mode and camera mode paginate differently.
3. Run the identity sweep on the final PDF, not on an earlier draft.
4. Register the abstract early; HotCRP lets you refine the PDF until the paper gate.
5. Re-open the CFP once more: EuroSys rounds occasionally adjust rules mid-cycle.

Output format

[EuroSys gate] fall 2027 round (or current round per live CFP)
[Readiness] upload-ready / fixable / blocked
[Format findings] <page budget / text block / template / paper ID>
[Anonymity findings] <leak locations or clean>
[Policy findings] <dual submission / resubmission ban / conflicts>
[Ordered fixes] <what to do before the abstract and paper gates>