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Use when deciding whether a result is SODA-shaped (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) — concrete algorithmic problems, data structures, and discrete mathematics with quantitative progress — versus routing to STOC/FOCS, ESA, ICALP, ITCS, SOSA, ALENEX, SoCG, or a journal, judged from SODA's algorithms-first identity.

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# SODA Topic Selection

SODA's identity: the joint ACM-SIAM venue for the design and analysis of
efficient algorithms and data structures for discrete problems, including the
combinatorics and discrete mathematics that feed them, and admitting
experimental validation alongside theory (SIAM SODA conference pages, checked
2026-07-08). The reviewing bench is the deepest *algorithms-specialist* pool of
any annual venue — which is precisely the fit test: SODA rewards papers whose
value is legible to algorithms experts as progress on concrete problems, not
papers needing a general theory-of-computation audience or a systems audience.

## The three-question fit test

1. **Is there a problem with a bound?** SODA papers move a quantitative frontier:
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