Once the review process of submissions will be double-blind, authors must prepare their manuscripts without including any indication of their identities or institutional affiliations. Author’s identities will be tracked only by the submission system, and visible only by the track chairs. The program committee members and referees who review the paper will not know the identity of the authors.

To ensure anonymity of authorship, authors must prepare their manuscript as follows:

• Funding sources must not be acknowledged anywhere in the paper.
• Authors’ names and affiliations must not appear on the title page or elsewhere in the paper. Instead, please include under the title the number assigned to your paper by the online paper registration system, for instance, by including the command \finalfalse in your LaTeX source file.
• Research group members, colleagues or other collaborators must not be acknowledged anywhere in the paper.
• It is strongly suggested that the submitted file is named with the assigned submission number. For example, if your assigned paper number is 39352, then name your submitted file 39352.pdf.
• Source file naming must also be done with care. For example, if your name is Jane Smith and you submit a PDF file generated from a .dvi file called Jane-Smith.dvi, one can infer your authorship by looking into the PDF file.
• You must also use care in referring to related past work, particularly your own. For example, avoid mention to your work as “In our previous work [1,2]…”, prefer third person referencing as “In previous work [1,2]…”. Despite the anonymity requirements, you should still include all relevant work of your own in the references, using the above style (omitting them could potentially reveal your identity by negation).

It is the responsibility of authors to do their best to preserve anonymity. Papers that do not follow the guidelines here, or otherwise potentially reveal the identity of the authors, are subject to immediate rejection.