CCS Artifact Evaluation

Use this for artifact packaging around CCS. CCS runs an optional artifact-evaluation process after acceptance; passing artifacts earn ACM badges that appear on the paper's first page. Reopen the current call for artifacts for the exact badge set, submission form, and deadlines.

The ACM badge ladder

Badge	What it certifies	What the committee does
Artifacts Available	The artifact is publicly archived with a stable identifier	Confirms the artifact is retrievable and permanent
Artifacts Evaluated - Functional	The artifact runs and does what the paper says	Executes it against the documented steps
Artifacts Evaluated - Reusable	It exceeds functional quality and others can reuse it	Judges structure, documentation, and reusability
Results Reproduced	The main paper results are independently reproduced	Reruns experiments and checks they support the claims

Available is about archival permanence; Functional and Reusable are about quality; Results Reproduced is the highest bar and requires the committee to regenerate your headline numbers.

Artifact plan

• Decide which claims the artifact must support: the exploit, the defense overhead, the measurement pipeline, or the protocol implementation.
• Make the security claim turnkey: one documented command per headline result, with expected output, runtime, and the hardware assumed.
• Anonymize nothing at this stage, artifact evaluation is post-acceptance and single-blind or open, but do pin versions, dependencies, and a container so it runs on a clean machine.
• For dangerous artifacts (working exploits, malware, live attack tooling), gate access, document safe-handling, and follow the responsible-disclosure posture from the paper.
• Justify anything withheld: licensing, disclosure embargo, subject safety, or premature-release risk, and offer partial, synthetic, or redacted substitutes that still let evaluators check the method.