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name: hpca-camera-ready
description: Use when preparing an HPCA camera-ready: inverting every blinding action, applying the IEEE template and rights forms, restoring acknowledgments and the AI-use disclosure, integrating reproducibility badges and DOIs, and preparing the February/March talk in the winter slot.
---

# HPCA Camera-Ready

Use this after acceptance to turn the reviewed paper into an IEEE-published,
badge-ready camera-ready and a winter-slot talk. HPCA is IEEE-published through TCCA,
so the template, rights forms, and badging are IEEE's — do not import ACM
conventions.

## Invert every blinding action

The submission was double-blind; the camera-ready is not. Reverse each anonymization
deliberately, and check that nothing was missed in either direction:

- Restore author names, affiliations, and the correct author order.
- Restore acknowledgments and funding lines that were removed for review.
- De-anonymize artifact links to the real repository.
- Keep the **AI-use disclosure** if content was AI-generated — it moves from an
  anonymous acknowledgment to the final one, it does not disappear.
- Confirm no reviewer-facing anonymity artifact ("Anonymous," "our institution")
  survives anywhere in the PDF or metadata.

## Apply the IEEE template and rights

| Task | What to do |
|---|---|
| Template | Final IEEE camera-ready template; confirm the current page allowance |
| Rights form | Complete the IEEE copyright/eRightslink form; add the required notice |
| Metadata | Set title, authors, and affiliations correctly in the PDF metadata |
| References | Every reference still lists all authors; fix any that slipped |
| Badges | Add earned IEEE reproducibility badge marks per the AE instructions |
| DOI | Confirm the DOI/citation string once assigned |

Confirm the exact camera-ready page allowance on the current instructions — some
cycles grant extra pages over the submission limit, and any earned artifact appendix
may be additional; do not assume.

## Integrate badges and the artifact

If the paper earned IEEE reproducibility badges, place the badge marks as the AE
instructions specify and finalize the **public, de-anonymized artifact release** on
the AE HotCRP. The camera-ready and the released artifact should reference each other
consistently — the badge on the paper points to a real, runnable release.

## Prepare the winter talk

HPCA meets in **February or March**, so the talk lands months after the summer
deadline and the autumn decision — budget for re-immersion. Build the talk around the
same mechanism-to-behavior spine as the paper:

- Open with the measured cost, not the mechanism.
- Show the mechanism as one clear figure a non-specialist architect can follow.
- Give the headline behavior with its instrument named, and one honest limitation.
- Rehearse to the session's time limit; confirm travel, registration, and any visa
  letter early given the winter international slot.

## Camera-ready pass

```text
1. Every blinding action inverted (names, acks, funding, artifact links)
2. AI-use disclosure preserved in the final acknowledgments (if applicable)
3. IEEE template + rights form complete; page allowance confirmed
4. Every reference lists all authors
5. Badge marks placed; public artifact release finalized on AE HotCRP
6. DOI/citation confirmed; PDF metadata correct
7. Talk built on the mechanism-to-behavior spine; travel/registration booked
```

## Output format

```text
[Camera-ready readiness] Ready / Needs fixes / Not ready
[De-anonymization] all blinding inverted? (Y/N)
[IEEE forms] template + rights complete? (Y/N)
[Badges/artifact] marks placed + release finalized? (Y/N/NA)
[Talk] built and rehearsed to time? (Y/N)
[Fixes] <ordered>
```

Reopen the current camera-ready instructions for the page allowance, rights workflow,
and badge placement — all are per-edition.