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soda-topic-selection

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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.

When to use

• deciding if a result is SODA-shaped
• routing to STOC/FOCS, ESA, ICALP, ITCS, SOSA, ALENEX, SoCG, or a journal
• evaluating concrete algorithmic problems
• evaluating data structures
• evaluating discrete mathematics with quantitative progress
• applying the three-question fit test
• adjudicating borderline cases
• identifying anti-fit signals

When not to use

• results needing a general theory-of-computation audience
• results needing a systems audience
• new complexity-theoretic barriers or models
• bold new problems with modest technical depth
• contributions where a known result becomes simple
• contributions focused on implementation and measurement
• computational geometry core
• distributed or parallel model as the point

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