Submission history
Submitting papers can be frustrating. Therefore, I put up my history of submission to share my experience and see it a bit more objectively. There might not be enough context to understand all the reasons of the decissions, but this should give an idea of the process of publishing.
SODA
Rejected
- Reviews
- weak reject / knowledgable
- reject / expert
- strong accept / knowledgable
- Comments
- Unclear differences with previous approaches
- Typos throughout the paper
Rejected
- Reviews
- reject / knowledgable
- reject / expert
- weak reject / knowledgable
- Comments
- Marginal improvement on the topic
- Too little credit to previous results
Rejected
- Reviews
- weak accept / knowledgable
- weak accept / knowledgable
- accept / no familiarity
- weak reject / expert
- Comments
- No new algorithm, only a new algorithm ananlysis
- Few to none tightness results
Accepted
- Reviews
- Accept / Some familiarity
- Accept / Knowledgeable
- Strong accept / expert
- Comments
- New parametrized complexity on an old open problem
- New and simple algorithmic approach
Rejected
- Reviews
- weak reject / expert
- weak accept / expert
- weak reject / expert
- Comments
- Not good enough for SODA
- No technical contribution
- Little exploration of variants
Accepted
- Reviews
- weak reject
- accept
- accept
- Comments
- Unclear numerical results
- Technical contribution not well connected with lemmas
ICALP
Rejected
- Reviews
- accept
- borderline
- best paper
- weak accept
- Comments
- Typos and technical details
CONCUR
Rejected
- Reviews
- weak reject
- weak reject
- weak accept
- Comments
- Poorly explained motivation
- Unclear objective
STACS
Rejected
- Reviews
- weak accept
- borderline
- weak accept
- Comments
- Unclear motivation for the model
- No deep insights explained
UAI
Rejeceted
- Reviews
- reject / somewhat confident
- reject / not very confident
- weak accept / somewhat confident
- borderline accept / somewhat confident
- Comments
- Lack of originality and novelty
ESA
Rejected
- Reviews
- weak accept
- accept
- weak reject
- weak accept
Mathematics of Operations Research
Accepted
- Comments
- Notation was improved during the submission
- Few points needed clarification