Camera-Ready Submission Guidelines

Portal Link:  https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ADC2025

Submission Deadline:

  • Research Paper:  30 Oct, 2025  28 Sep, 2025  (23:59 AoE)
  • Shepherding Paper:  28 Oct, 2025  (23:59 AoE)

All submissions will undergo a plagiarism self-check. By submitting your final camera-ready version, you confirm that all contributions are original and have been checked for plagiarism.

Please read and follow our Editorial Policies.

Preparation and Submission Instructions

The camera-ready paper must NOT exceed 12 pages, including the main content and appendix, but excluding reference pages. Significant changes to the paper content and length are not allowed, but please revise your paper according to the review comments which you believe are helpful to improve the paper quality.

Please note that according to ADC’s author instructions, authors’ names cannot be added or deleted, their order cannot be changed, and the corresponding author cannot be altered at this stage.

Ensure that it strictly adheres to the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format as per the author’s instructions, which can be found here: LNCS Authors Instructions Page.

Both the final pdf copy (.pdf) and source files (.zip) of the camera-ready paper should be submitted:

  • The final paper should be a stand-alone pdf document. Please name your final pdf copy as "PaperType_XXX.pdf", where the PaperType is “research” or “shepherding” and "XXX" is the paper ID you can find in the CMT submission system (e.g.: a research paper with ID 26 should be named research_26.pdf)
  • Final Source Files: A zip file containing all the source files. Please name it "PaperType_XXX_source.zip", where the PaperType is “research” or “shepherding” and "XXX" is the paper ID.
    • The LaTeX submission must include the .tex file and other format documents (such as .cls, .sty, etc.), special font files, images (such as .eps, etc.), bibliography .bib and .bbl files, etc. References should be supplied as bbl files to avoid omission of data while converting from bib to bbl. Please note that hyperlinks cannot be included in reference.
    • For Word or RTF format documents, please provide the complete document.

You also need to submit a signed pdf copy of the form of License to publish proceedings papers:

  • You can download the form here: License to publish form
  • Please complete the form with the authors’ details. The “Proposed Title of the Contribution” is the paper title.
  • Signed by hand by the corresponding author on behalf of all authors of the paper. Please note that digital signatures are not accepted and the form needs to be signed in ink and then scanned. Papers whose copyright has not been transferred on time will not be included in the proceedings.

Please submit the above 2 pdf files and 1 zip file to the CMT submission system. Late submission will not be considered for inclusion in the conference proceedings.

Please ensure that all documents strictly follow the required format and are free of grammatical errors, and all parts of your submission are complete and accurate (The three files are mandatory from the publisher). Submissions with significant errors may not be included in the proceedings.

All submissions will undergo a plagiarism self-check. By submitting your final camera-ready version, you confirm that all contributions are original and have been checked for plagiarism.

Enquiries

For further assistance and any enquiries about camera-ready submissions, please contact Proceeding Co-Chairs via adc2025proceedings@outlook.com.