aaai-workflow

1# AAAI Workflow
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3Use this as the project-management skill for an AAAI submission. Replace all dates with the current
4cycle's official timetable and work backwards from OpenReview cutoffs.
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6AAAI is a conference, not a journal: it has no standing editor-in-chief and no article-processing
7charge. The rotating leadership is the per-edition Program Chairs, and the cost model is registration
8fees, not APCs — at least one author must register at the in-person rate and present **in person**;
9AAAI-27 offers no remote option, and a paper without a registered presenter is removed before
10publication. The AAAI-27 chairs are not recorded in this pack: the AAAI-27 organizers URL still
11redirects to an older edition's roster, so no official page names them (the AAAI-26 chairs were Chad
12Jenkins and Matthew Taylor, and those appointments rotate). Re-check the current CFP and
13conference-organizers page rather than carrying a name or contact forward.
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15## Milestones
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17- Venue fit: choose Main Track, AI for Social Impact, AI Alignment, or another AAAI program.
18- Evidence lock: freeze contribution, baselines, ablations, checklist answers, and supplement.
19- Abstract deadline: submit real metadata, title, abstract, authors, subject areas, and conflicts.
20- Paper deadline: upload anonymous PDF, reproducibility checklist, supplement, and OpenReview fields.
21- Phase 1 risk check: ensure the paper can be understood quickly and does not look checklist-thin.
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