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ijoc-rebuttal

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Use when drafting the response to an INFORMS Journal on Computing (IJOC) decision letter — turning referee objections (especially about experiments and reproducibility) into a point-by-point response with re-run evidence. Builds the rebuttal and revision plan; it does not run new analysis on its own (route to ijoc-data-analysis).

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# Rebuttal Strategy (ijoc-rebuttal)

## When to trigger

- An IJOC **major/minor revision** arrived and you need a response-letter strategy
- Referees challenge the **fairness, scale, or reproducibility** of the computational experiments
- You disagree with a referee on a method point and must push back **without alienating** the associate editor
- You need to convert a long, mixed decision letter into an ordered, checkable revision plan

## The IJOC rebuttal mindset

IJOC revisions are won with **evidence, not rhetoric**. Most consequential objections are computational ("the comparison is unfair," "instances too small," "cannot reproduce"), and the strongest response is a re-run that settles the question: more standard instances, a stronger baseline, more seeds, a performance profile, an updated deposit. Because the **associate editor is undisclosed and single-blind**, write to the substance of each report for a technical reader; never speculate about who wrote what. The AE is reading for whether you took the experiments seriously.

## Structure of the response
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