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focs-review-process

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Use when reasoning about how a FOCS (IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science) submission is evaluated — the TCMF-sponsored program committee, subreferee delegation, double-blind norms the venue adopted years before STOC, the summer decision arc, and what each outcome means for a theory paper.

When to use

• reasoning about FOCS evaluation
• understanding TCMF-sponsored program committee
• subreferee delegation
• double-blind norms
• summer decision arc
• interpreting FOCS outcomes
• predicting the review pipeline

When not to use

• writing camera-ready versions
• drafting author responses
• selecting topics for submission
• preparing supplementary materials

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