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ijoc-workflow

Use when deciding which ijoc-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing a manuscript from idea through rebuttal for an INFORMS Journal on Computing (IJOC) submission. Routes — it does not replace — the specialized skills.

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# IJOC Workflow Router (ijoc-workflow)

## Overview

This is the router. It tells you **which ijoc-* skill to use at the current stage** of a manuscript aimed at the *INFORMS Journal on Computing* (IJOC) — the INFORMS journal at the **intersection of operations research / management science and computer science**. IJOC judges a paper on its **computational and/or methodological advance**: algorithm design and analysis, exact and heuristic optimization, integer/stochastic/robust programming, simulation, computational probability, machine learning for OR, data-science methodology, and the software/computational tooling that makes OR work. A clever application alone does not clear the bar; the *computing* must be the contribution.

Operational tells that you are at IJOC and not a sibling: the author **selects one of the journal's 10 technical areas** at submission via **ScholarOne** (mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijoc); the **Area Editor desk-rejects roughly 40%** of submissions and the **associate editor's identity is never disclosed** to authors; review is **single-blind** (reviewers see author names); and IJOC runs a **distinctive reproducibility regime** — accepted papers deposit code/data in the **IJOC Software and Data Repository on GitHub** (the INFORMSJoC organization), which snapshots a tagged release and mints a **separate code DOI (`…<U+200B>.cd`)** alongside the article DOI. Editor-in-chief: **David L. Woodruff** (UC Davis), succeeding Alice E. Smith (whose term ended 2025-12-31); confirmed via INFORMS (检索于 2026-06-22;以官网为准). Re-verify volatile specifics on the official INFORMS pages.

## When to trigger

- The user asks "what should I do next?" on an IJOC-bound paper
- A draft's binding constraint (scope fit, algorithmic claim, experiments, exhibits, deposit) needs naming
- Work is ping-ponging between method design, computational experiments, framing, and the response letter
- An IJOC decision letter arrived and the user must switch into revision mode
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