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imc-review-process

Use when reasoning about how an ACM IMC submission is evaluated, covering double-blind multi-round review, the Accept / One-Shot-Revision / Reject decision categories, the reviewer-champion rule and bounded action points, early rejection of consensus-reject papers, shepherding for artifact availability, and how IMC's two-deadline model differs from SIGCOMM/NSDI cycles.

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# IMC Review Process

Model the pipeline before interpreting any single review. IMC's process is built around **two
deadlines a year** and a distinctive middle outcome — **One-Shot-Revision** — that is neither a
plain reject nor an open-ended major revision. The most consequential mental shift for authors
arriving from a single-round conference is that a good-but-incomplete measurement paper has a
*bounded* path to acceptance across deadlines.

## Process model

- Submission and review run on **HotCRP** with **double-blind** anonymity maintained through
  reviewing.
- Review proceeds in **several rounds**. Papers with a **consensus for rejection are notified
  early**, so authors can move the work to another venue without waiting for the full cycle.