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Use when reasoning about how an ACM PODC submission is evaluated — covering lightweight double-blind review, a program committee that reads proofs, the accept/reject decision with no journal-style revision round, the Brief Announcements track's lighter bar, and how PODC's process differs from DISC, SPAA, and the sequential-theory venues STOC/FOCS/SODA.

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# PODC Review Process

Model the pipeline before interpreting any single review. PODC's process is **proofs-first and
single-shot**: a specialized program committee reads your model and your proof, and the decision is
**accept or reject** — there is **no Major Revision, no journal-style R&R**. The most consequential
mental shift for authors arriving from a software-engineering or ML venue is that there is no second
read to fix a gap in; everything that would go into a revision must be in the initial submission.

## Process model

- Submission and review run on **HotCRP** with **lightweight double-blind** anonymity: identities
  are hidden from reviewers (no author names/affiliations/emails in the submission), a change from
  PODC's historically single-blind practice.
- Each paper is read by program-committee members (often with external subreviewers for specific
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