CAV Camera Ready

Use this after acceptance. CAV papers are published open access as Springer LNCS chapters, so the camera-ready is a Springer production step with its own metadata and rights forms. Reopen the current LNCS author instructions, the decision email, and the artifact-track page before advising.

Camera-ready audit

• De-anonymize (Regular and Application papers): restore the author block, affiliations, acknowledgements, funding, and the real tool/solver and repository names that double-blind review forced you to hide. (Tool and Industrial papers were never anonymized.)
• Apply the final LNCS format: the llncs document class, within the category page allowance and any camera-ready extension the acceptance letter grants, with correct running heads and the Springer copyright line.
• Complete Springer LNCS metadata: title/abstract, author order and ORCIDs, corresponding author, affiliations, and keywords — entered in the Springer system and matching the PDF exactly. Metadata errors are harder to fix after the volume is published than formatting ones.
• Integrate reviewer-required changes faithfully — the scoping edits and added clarifications the reviews and rebuttal committed to — without strengthening claims beyond what was evaluated.
• Permanentize the artifact/open-science links: replace any anonymized artifact link with a public, licensed, DOI-issuing archive, and make the paper's availability statement point at it.
• Complete the open-access / copyright forms: CAV proceedings are open access, so confirm the correct license and the open-access consent/rights form for the volume.

De-anonymization sweep (anonymized categories)

Anonymized at submission	Restore at camera-ready	Watch for
Author block, affiliations, ORCID	Full, correctly ordered	Wrong author order breaks the LNCS citation and DOI metadata
Tool / solver / prover name	Real name throughout text, figures, artifact	A leftover anonymized name in a caption or a benchmark path
Acknowledgements, funding	Restored	Grant numbers required by funders
Self-citations (third person)	Natural first-person where it aids clarity	Over-correcting and double-citing
Artifact / repository link	Public archive DOI + tool homepage	The old anonymized URL surviving in a footnote

LNCS production checks

[Template]   llncs document class, current revision; correct running heads; no manual margin edits
[Metadata]   title, abstract, authors+ORCID, affiliations, corresponding author, keywords entered
             in the Springer system and matching the PDF
[References] complete, consistent; DOIs where available; venue strings correct (do not misattribute
             a TACAS/FMCAD paper to CAV)
[Figures]    vector where possible; cactus/scatter plots readable in print; captions self-contained
[Rights]     Springer open-access consent-to-publish / copyright form completed for the volume
[Links]      every artifact and availability link resolves from a logged-out browser

Worked example: integrating a rebuttal commitment

The reviews required scoping the generality claim to the supported theory and moving a lemma's full proof into the paper. Camera-ready move: narrow the claim sentence to the theory actually covered, promote the lemma proof from the appendix into the correctness section (space permitting) or keep it clearly in the appendix with a body pointer, restore the real tool name in the benchmark tables, and point the availability statement at the now-public DOI archive — without expanding the claim the PC accepted.

Artifact-badge handoff

The camera-ready and the AEC evaluation are separate deadlines, and the badge outcome may arrive after the camera-ready is due. Do not block the paper on the badge; but make the paper's availability statement consistent with the badges you are pursuing (Available at minimum; Functional/Reusable if granted), and add any badge acknowledgement only per the current LNCS/AEC instructions.

Hedged logistics

• Page allowances, metadata fields, the open-access rights mechanics, and exact camera-ready dates change each cycle; confirm against the decision email and current Springer LNCS instructions rather than a prior year (camera-ready date for 2026 is 待核实).

Output format

[Camera-ready status] ready / needs fixes / blocked
[De-anonymization] author block / tool name / acks / links restored (if applicable)? yes/no
[LNCS metadata] ORCID / author order / affiliations / keywords / rights form complete? yes/no
[Reviewer-change map] <required change -> final edit, no scope creep>
[Open science] anonymized links replaced by DOI archive? availability statement updated? yes/no
[Remaining owner] <person -> task>