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This skill provides a comprehensive guide for authors targeting the USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI). It helps in positioning complex systems research, covering core scope areas like operating systems, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure. It details how to frame the contribution, build evidence (artifacts, baselines), and distinguish the work from similar top-tier venues like SOSP and NSDI.

A comprehensive guide detailing the mandatory and optional evaluation phases for academic security artifacts, such as those required for USENIX Security. It covers Phase-1 (availability) checks and Phase-2 (functionality, reproducibility) requirements. Provides best practices for structuring code, managing technical hazards (e.g., dangerous-by-default behavior), and ensuring verifiable, reproducible results for peer review.

This guide provides comprehensive instructions for authors responding to peer reviews and engaging with a shepherd during major security symposium cycles (like USENIX Security). It details the technical mechanics of writing effective rebuttals, addressing compliance gaps (e.g., ethics/disclosure), and managing limited revisions during the post-acceptance shepherding phase.

Outlines the mandatory, multi-stage process for authors preparing final, camera-ready papers for USENIX Security. This guide covers critical post-acceptance steps, including de-anonymizing the manuscript, ensuring all mandated artifacts are permanently available (Open Science policy), updating ethical considerations, and meeting publication standards before final submission deadlines.

A comprehensive audit checklist for designing and evaluating security experiments, adhering to the highest academic standards (e.g., USENIX Security). It guides users through verifying adaptive attacker models, calculating precision at realistic base rates, ensuring statistical honesty for stochastic results, and maintaining ethical compliance when working with live systems.

A comprehensive guide for positioning research papers for top-tier security conferences like USENIX Security. It covers defining coverage against 'Big-Four' and specialty venues, ensuring novelty across multi-cycle academic pipelines, identifying mechanism-level differentiators, and mastering double-blind citation mechanics for maximum impact.

This guide covers the mandatory Open Science appendix for high-level security research. It instructs authors on enumerating all artifacts (code, datasets, configurations), documenting data withholding decisions, and implementing engineering controls (like environment pinning and version tracking) to ensure that published results are independently and reliably reproducible.

This comprehensive guide details the academic submission lifecycle for USENIX Security. It maps out the multi-stage review pipeline, from initial submission through early rejection to final notification. It critically updates authors on the current decision vocabulary (e.g., Shepherd Approval, retired major revisions), emphasizing mandatory review foci like ethics adequacy, threat-model realism, and openness posture for strategic planning.

This comprehensive guide outlines the rigorous, multi-stage submission process for USENIX Security Symposium papers. It covers mandatory formatting rules, including the 13-page main body and required appendices for Ethical Considerations and Open Science. The guide also details critical steps for maintaining double-blind anonymity, managing complex HotCRP deadlines, and avoiding early rejection pitfalls.

This guide outlines the strict formatting and structural guidelines for submitting security conference papers (like USENIX Security). It helps authors determine which material—core mechanisms, proofs, or supplementary data—must remain in the main body to guarantee review visibility, versus what can be safely demoted to optional appendices or external artifacts.

This detailed guide helps researchers determine the optimal top-tier venue (e.g., USENIX Security, IEEE S&P, ACM CCS) for their security research paper. It emphasizes that venue selection must be based on the committee's core expertise and the existence of reusable artifacts, measurements, or systems evidence, ensuring the work has the necessary technical depth to succeed.

This comprehensive guide provides an end-to-end planning framework for USENIX Security Symposium submissions. It assists researchers in selecting the optimal submission cycle, mapping backward timelines from key milestones (like registration), assigning ownership for venue-specific risks (e.g., ethics, reproducibility), and coordinating through the complex post-submission decision process (Accept/Reject).