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Use when revising an ACM PODS paper for a precise model and result on the first page, exact theorem statements with matching bounds, complete and self-contained proofs (body plus at-submission appendix), honest assumptions and open cases, double-anonymous wording, and disciplined use of the acmsmall 15-page budget.

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# PODS Writing Style

Use this when revising the main paper. PODS papers are read by database theoreticians, so they need a
**precise model and a precise result stated on the first page** and **proofs a reviewer can verify**.
The failure this skill prevents is a paper whose interesting idea is buried under systems language or
whose theorems are stated loosely enough that no one can tell what was proved.

## Revision rules

- **Lead with the model and the result:** the data-management problem, the exact model (data/query
  model, complexity measure, cost model), the result (a bound, a dichotomy, a semantics, an optimal
  algorithm), why it is tight or complete, and what it settles — all on the first page.
- **State theorems precisely.** Every theorem names its hypotheses, its model, and its exact
  quantities (data vs. combined complexity, worst-case vs. parameterized, exact vs. approximate). A
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