franklee16/academic-research-skills/aaai-workflow

AAAI Workflow

Use this as the project-management skill for an AAAI submission. Replace all dates with the current cycle's official timetable and work backwards from OpenReview cutoffs.

Milestones

• Venue fit: choose Main Track, AI for Social Impact, AI Alignment, or another AAAI program.
• Evidence lock: freeze contribution, baselines, ablations, checklist answers, and supplement.
• Abstract deadline: submit real metadata, title, abstract, authors, subject areas, and conflicts.
• Paper deadline: upload anonymous PDF, reproducibility checklist, supplement, and OpenReview fields.
• Phase 1 risk check: ensure the paper can be understood quickly and does not look checklist-thin.
• Review release: identify whether the paper is in Phase 2 and triage reviews, including AI review

if present.

• Rebuttal: draft a compact, no-URL, no-new-results response using only submitted evidence.
• Decision: archive reviews, rebuttal, decision, and final submitted version.
• Acceptance: submit source files, copyright, camera-ready PDF, registration, presentation plan, and

public artifacts.

Operating rules

• Keep a single checklist for page limit, anonymity, supplement integrity, author limit, and

multiple-submission policy.

• Run a fresh anonymity audit after every PDF or ZIP export.
• Verify ZIP files open and reproduce expected paths before submission.
• Do not leave core evidence to rebuttal.

Output format

[Current stage] idea / experiments / writing / submission / Phase 1 / rebuttal / accepted
[Next official deadline] <date and source, or unknown>
[Critical path] <three tasks that determine readiness>
[Risk register] <page, anonymity, checklist, supplement, policy>
[Owner map] <task -> person or role>