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.

AAAI is a conference, not a journal: it has no standing editor-in-chief and no article-processing charge. The rotating leadership is the per-edition Program Chairs, and the cost model is registration fees, not APCs, at least one author must register at the in-person rate and present in person; AAAI-27 offers no remote option, and a paper without a registered presenter is removed before publication. The AAAI-27 chairs are not recorded in this pack: the AAAI-27 organizers URL still redirects to an older edition's roster, so no official page names them (the AAAI-26 chairs were Chad Jenkins and Matthew Taylor, and those appointments rotate). Re-check the current CFP and conference-organizers page rather than carrying a name or contact forward.

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