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Use when planning a CIKM project calendar across the May abstract/paper gates, June short-track gates, August notification and camera-ready, and the November conference, including the post-submission phase now live in the 2026 cycle, multi-track coordination, and fallback planning toward CIKM 2027 or sibling venues.
Passed 22 of 24 test cases with the skill, and 13 of 24 without it.
and 15 more in the full report
11 fixed11 passed either way0 still failing2 broke
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
One of 11 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
At 5 weeks prior to the CIKM paper deadline in our backward preparation schedule, what format milestone and layout check must be completed?
| Checked | Without skill | With skill |
|---|---|---|
| The response specifies drafting in ACM two-column format at 5 weeks. | Passed | Passed |
| The response emphasizes measuring page length with appendices included at 5 weeks. | Missed | Passed |
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CIKM runs a spring-submission, autumn-meeting year. The verified 2026 shape (source map, 2026-07-08): full-paper abstract May 16 and paper May 23; short, resource, and demo abstracts May 30 and papers June 6; notification for the listed tracks August 7; camera-ready August 20; conference November 7-11 in Rome — every cutoff 11:59 PM AoE. Replace these anchors with the current important-dates page before acting on any of them; CIKM re-issues its calendar annually under a new host committee.
As of 2026-07-08 all CIKM 2026 submission gates have closed. A team holding a submission is in the review-wait phase; a team without one is planning CIKM 2027. That split defines two working modes:
Mode A — paper under review (July → August 7). Do the work whose absence hurts in
August: keep the experimental environment runnable rather than dismantled, pre-draft
the camera-ready fixes you already know about, prepare the public artifact that the
anonymized submission could not name, and hold arXiv or publicity moves that conflict
with what was declared on the EasyChair form. If a response mechanism materializes
(unconfirmed for 2026 — 待核实), cikm-author-response takes over on short notice.
Mode B — aiming at the next edition. The May/November rhythm is a planning prior only until the 2027 site posts dates. Build backward from a provisional mid-May gate and treat the abstract deadline as the real freeze: title, abstract, author list — authorship is frozen there under the ACM policy — and the track choice.
| Weeks before the paper deadline | Milestone for an IR/mining/KM paper |
|---|---|
| 10 | Track chosen (cikm-topic-selection); datasets and baselines secured |
| 7 | Core results in; mechanism ablations scheduled |
| 5 | Draft in ACM two-column format — appendices count inside the budget, so measure now |
| 3 | Internal read by someone from the other community lane the paper claims |
| 1.5 | Abstract gate: final title/abstract/authors/track in EasyChair |
| 1 | Anonymity sweep, GenAI Usage Disclosure section written, reviewer nomination assigned |
| 0 | PDF upload; declared arXiv status matches reality |
Two CIKM-specific traps in that table. First, the abstract deadline is one week
test cases passed, vs 13 / 24 without
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