soda-related-work
Use when positioning a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper in the algorithms literature — tracing bound lineages across SODA/STOC/FOCS/ESA/ICALP and journals, handling arXiv-first priority culture, citing conference versus journal versions correctly, and self-citation under lightweight double-blind rules.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill soda-related-work --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# SODA Related Work Positioning at SODA is quantitative: the related-work section's job is to establish, bound by bound, exactly where your result sits in a lineage the referees already know. The most common positioning failure is not a missing citation but a *mis-stated bound* — quoting a superseded conference version, missing a stronger journal version, or comparing against the randomized bound when a better deterministic one exists. ## The five lanes to sweep | Lane | Where it lives | What referees check | |---|---|---| | Direct predecessors | SODA/STOC/FOCS/ESA/ICALP proceedings, arXiv | Is the displaced bound the true state of the art? | | Journal consolidations | SICOMP, JACM, ACM ToA, Algorithmica | Did the journal version strengthen the bound you quote? | | Lower bounds / hardness | Same venues + ITCS, CCC | Does a conditional lower bound cap your claimed improvement's meaning? | | Concurrent arXiv postings | arXiv (last ~18 months) | Anything simultaneous that changes the delta | | Adjacent-model results | Distributed (PODC/DISC), parallel (SPAA), geometry (SoCG), dynamic/streaming lines | Incomparable-but-related results a subreviewer will ask about | The concurrent lane
- The five lanes to sweep
- Bound-lineage verification recipe
- arXiv-first culture and priority
- Self-citation under lightweight double-blind
- Bibliography mechanics for dual-version results
- Positioning prose patterns
- Output format
What does the soda-related-work skill do?
Use when positioning a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper in the algorithms literature — tracing bound lineages across SODA/STOC/FOCS/ESA/ICALP and journals, handling arXiv-first priority culture, citing conference versus journal versions correctly, and self-citation under lightweight double-blind rules.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill soda-related-work --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.