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icalp-writing-style
Use when shaping the exposition of an ICALP (EATCS) theory paper — stating the model before the theorem, putting a legible theorem statement and its improvement over prior bounds on the first page, structuring the 15-page body around the argument while full proofs live in the appendix/full version, and meeting the correctness-and-clarity bar of Track A and Track B referees.
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# ICALP Writing Style
Build the ICALP skeleton: **model → theorem → improvement → technique → complete proof**. ICALP
referees are subject experts who will *check* the mathematics, so the writing has two jobs at once —
make the contribution **legible on the first page**, and make the proofs **verifiable** in the body,
appendix, and full version. The 15-page body is a hard budget; exposition, not omission, is how you
fit.
## The first-page arc
1. **State the model, then the theorem.** Fix the exact setting — the computational model, the
complexity measure, the class of objects — *before* the claim. "Fully dynamic, deterministic,
worst-case update time" comes before "n^{o(1)}."
2. **Put a legible theorem statement in the abstract.** A specialist should read the abstract and know