soda-review-process
Use when reasoning about how a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) submission is evaluated — the per-edition program committee under joint ACM-SIAM sponsorship, HotCRP triage of a record-size submission pool, lightweight double-blind refereeing of full versions, the September rebuttal, and October decisions.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill soda-review-process --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 Review Process SODA is run jointly by the SIAM Activity Group on Discrete Mathematics and ACM SIGACT, with a fresh program committee appointed for each edition — there is no standing editorial board, and every policy below is re-decided annually. Anchor facts for the 2027 cycle (checked 2026-07-08 via SIAM SODA27 pages read through search renderings, plus organizer announcements): submission July 9, 2026 AoE on HotCRP; reviews to authors by September 1; responses due September 4; decisions and instructions in October 2026. The 2027 PC chairs were not yet indexed at check time: 待核实. For scale context, SODA 2026's chair reported the largest submission pool in SODA history, roughly a 25% jump year-over-year (reported via the PC chair's public announcement; treat as reported, not official). ## Pipeline anatomy | Phase (2027 anchors) | What happens | Author-side reality | |---|---|---| | July 9 | HotCRP closes | The record is frozen; nothing is added later | | July | Bidding and assignment | Your title-page abstract and topic tags determine who reads you | | July-August | Refereeing, often with external subreviewers | The full version is the reviewed object; depth checks are real
- Pipeline anatomy
- Who reads you: the subreviewer economy
- Lightweight double-blind, referee's view
- What moves a borderline paper
- Interpreting the calendar's silences
- Reading a SODA review packet
- After the decision
- Output format
What does the soda-review-process skill do?
Use when reasoning about how a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) submission is evaluated — the per-edition program committee under joint ACM-SIAM sponsorship, HotCRP triage of a record-size submission pool, lightweight double-blind refereeing of full versions, the September rebuttal, and October decisions.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill soda-review-process --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 909 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.