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This skill acts as a comprehensive workflow router for authors preparing Operations Research (OR) manuscripts for top-tier journals. It guides the user through the entire modeling-to-submission lifecycle, mapping the necessary stages—from initial theory development and literature positioning to computational data analysis and final contribution framing. Its purpose is to ensure methodological rigor and adherence to the journal's specific, multi-stage norms.

This tool polishes academic prose for Operations Research (OR) manuscripts, ensuring adherence to strict house styles like INFORMS. It enforces critical rules such as an equation-free introduction, a text-only abstract under 200 words, and clear theorem-proof exposition. Use this when your draft is complete and needs to meet the rigorous standards of an OR publication.

A comprehensive guide for researchers preparing system artifacts for major conferences like OSDI. It outlines best practices for structuring deliverables, ensuring permanent and resolvable archiving (e.g., using Zenodo/DOI), and maximizing reproducibility. The guide emphasizes meeting the current academic standard for verifiable and functional system submissions.

A comprehensive guide detailing the necessary author response techniques for high-stakes academic conferences, particularly focusing on the shift from traditional rebuttals to structured, mandated revision cycles (shepherding). It covers pre-submission pre-mortems, managing mandated changes using a change matrix, and maintaining professional rigor throughout the review process. Ideal for PhD students and researchers.

A comprehensive guide for authors preparing the camera-ready version of a scientific paper for the OSDI conference. It details the critical final stages of publication, including mandatory content expansion (up to 14 pages), de-anonymization processes, integrating artifact appendices, and coordinating the successful public release strategy for the entire system and paper.

A comprehensive guide for structuring academic system evaluation papers (e.g., OSDI). It dictates how to frame experiments around core research questions, select robust baselines, utilize realistic workloads (including adversarial tests), and apply rigorous measurement disciplines (e.g., reporting distributions, p99s) while maintaining conciseness within strict page limits.

This guide provides expert advice on structuring the "Related Work" section for top-tier systems conferences (like OSDI, SOSP, NSDI). It emphasizes that the section must function as a "difference ledger," detailing the mechanism-level distinctions between your proposed system and all prior art. Learn how to categorize competitors, cite historical ancestors, manage anonymity, and rigorously verify all venue citations to maximize impact.

Provides a rigorous framework for ensuring the reproducibility of systems research presented at conferences like OSDI. It mandates maintaining a comprehensive, machine-readable provenance ledger that records hardware specifications, software dependencies, workload traces, and measurement policies throughout the entire experimental lifecycle, preventing 'artifact drift' and ensuring verifiable results.

A comprehensive guide detailing the rigorous peer-review pipeline of top academic conferences (like OSDI). It covers multi-round double-blind review, strategies for conditional acceptance, heavy shepherding, and optimizing your paper's structure to survive early triage rounds. Essential reading for researchers aiming to publish high-impact, publishable work.

A comprehensive pre-upload audit checklist for authors submitting to OSDI conferences. This guide meticulously covers critical rules, including strict page limits (12 pages), mandatory anonymization techniques (institution and system names), adherence to specific submission deadlines, and best practices for managing HotCRP field data to ensure a flawless submission.

A guide detailing the rigorous process of triaging supplementary material for highly constrained academic venues like OSDI. It outlines how to determine if material belongs in the initial 12-page body, the final paper appendix, or the public artifact, ensuring the submission meets reviewer expectations while adhering to strict page limits.

A comprehensive guide for researchers deciding the optimal venue for systems projects, such as OSDI, SOSP, or NSDI. It provides structured tests (built-and-measured, operational experience) and scoping criteria to help authors determine if their work is a research contribution or a production-level lesson, ensuring projects are routed to the correct academic conference before significant time is spent writing.