Camera-Ready Guideline

Deadline of the camera-ready version: July 2, 2021 (AOE).

The ACM Publishing System (TAPS) will be used to upload your camera-ready source files and generate the PDF file of your paper. We describe these steps as follows.

Step #1. Submit the copyright form, then get the URL to the ACM Publishing system

First, you will receive the following email regarding the copyright form of your accepted paper. Please follow the instructions there.

After signing your ACM copyright form, you will receive

(i) an email about ACM copyright text (to be used in Step #3) and
(ii) an email notification to upload your paper to the ACM Publishing System (to be used in Step #4).

It may take a few hours before you receive the email below:

Step #2. Read the following guidelines:

Step #3. Prepare the single-column version of your paper

The ACM Publishing System requires authors to submit the single-column version only (not the two-column version). Then, the system will generate the double-column version automatically (in Step #5).

For Microsoft Word users, please use the following template:
https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submission_template.docx

For LaTeX users, please use the following template and use “manuscript” for the single-column version:
https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-template/acmart-primary.zip

Here are the best practices for LaTeX users to avoid error message in the system.
https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/latex-best-practices

Step #4. Upload the ZIP file of your paper to the ACM Publishing system

Please click the link in the last email obtained in Step #1, and then you will see the following screenshot:

Please prepare the ZIP file of your paper (including source files) according to the instructions in the above screenshot. After uploading your ZIP file, the system will notify you either:

#4.1 Your submission is OK

Please wait for email notification, and then go to Step #5.

#4.2 Error messages

Example 1: ZIP file with incorrect name

Please wait for email notification, and then go to Step #5.
Example 2: ZIP file with incorrect directory structure

Please check the error message, fix it, and then upload your ZIP file again.
Example 3: Other errors or warnings

Please click “Download Validation Error Log” to obtain the detailed error information, for example,

Please check the error message, fix it, and then upload your ZIP file again.

Step #5. Review the generated PDF file

Please click “PDF file”, and check whether you are satisfied with it.

The page limit of this final PDF (double-column generated by the system) would be:

Type	Page Limit
Research	11 pages
Industry	11 pages
Short	5 pages
Demo	5 pages
Vision	5 pages

(Due to the reformatting process in the system, we have already increased the page limit of the final PDF file by 1)

Step #6. Decide whether to “Approve” or “Reject”

If you are satisfied with the generated PDF, click “Approve” in the system.

If you are not satisfied with the generated PDF, click “Reject” in the system, and then you can either choose “Resubmit” or “Contact Support.”

After you choose “Resubmit,” you will go back to Step #4, where you can modify your source files and generate a new PDF. If you are still not satisfied with the generated PDF, you can use the Contact Support option to ask for support from the ACM team, which is supposed to reply your questions within 24 hours.

If there are any questions about the camera-ready version preparation, please contact our proceedings chairs Bin Yang (byang@cs.aau.dk) and Man Lung Yiu (csmlyiu@comp.polyu.edu.hk).