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icalp-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a theoretical computer science result belongs at ICALP (EATCS) and, if so, whether it is a Track A (algorithms, complexity, games) or Track B (automata, logic, semantics, theory of programming) paper, and when distinguishing ICALP from the US theory venues STOC, FOCS, and SODA or from a TCS journal by contribution shape, community, and the LIPIcs open-access model.
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# ICALP Topic Selection
Decide the venue **and the track** before drafting. ICALP — the EATCS International Colloquium on
Automata, Languages, and Programming — is **Europe's flagship theoretical-computer-science
conference** and the annual meeting of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. Its
contribution is a **theorem**: a precise statement in a clean model, proved completely. A paper whose
real deliverable is a system, a benchmark result, or an application with no new theorem is respected
and then rejected as out of scope.
## Two decisions, not one
Routing to ICALP is genuinely two questions:
1. **Is this an ICALP paper at all**, versus STOC/FOCS/SODA, a specialized venue (LICS, CCC, SoCG,