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atc-writing-style

Use when drafting or revising an ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, formerly USENIX ATC) systems paper — writing a self-standing two-page extended abstract for the round-one gate, structuring the implementation-and-measurement narrative, reporting costs beside gains, and holding the two-column 12-page budget.

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# ATC Writing Style

Write for two audiences in two rounds. In round one, two reviewers read only your **two-page
extended abstract**; in round two, 3-4 reviewers read the full paper. The abstract is **review-only,
not published, and must stand alone**. So ATC writing has a demand no single-round venue makes: the
paper's core argument must fit, self-contained, into two pages *and* expand faithfully into twelve.

## The self-standing extended abstract (round-one surface)

A round-one reviewer who reads only the abstract should finish knowing:

1. **The systems problem** — a pain a builder or operator recognizes, in the first breath.
2. **Why the current design is inadequate** — the specific limitation your work removes.
3. **The contribution** — the system or technique, stated as what it *does*, not "novel."