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Use to model the ITCS reviewing pipeline — a program committee plus external reviewers, conceptual-novelty weighting, lightweight double-blind, no author-response/rebuttal phase, and a single accept/reject decision — and to understand where the (limited) author leverage actually is.

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# ITCS Review Process

Understanding how ITCS decides tells you where your effort matters — and at ITCS, almost all of
it matters *before* the deadline, because there is **no rebuttal, no revise-and-resubmit, and no
second round.** The submission is judged as it stands. This skill models the pipeline so you can
calibrate expectations and pre-empt the objections you will never get to answer.

## The pipeline

1. **Registration then submission.** Title/abstract/authors/conflicts lock ~2 days before the
   paper (early September); the abstract drives PC bidding. Then the anonymized full PDF with
   complete proofs is uploaded to HotCRP.
2. **PC + external review.** A program committee (order of a few dozen members) handles the load;
   PC members review directly or solicit **external reviewers** (subreferees) for expertise. The
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