SYSTOR provides a forum for interaction across the systems and storage community: international, academic, and industrial, for both students and more established members. We solicit high-quality experimental and practical research papers encompassing all aspects of computer systems. Research papers will be published by the ACM.

In addition to research papers, SYSTOR hosts distinguished keynote speakers, highlighted papers from recent top conferences, a poster session, and social and cultural activities.

SYSTOR 2016 will be held in Haifa from June 6 to 8, 2016.


Call for Papers

We invite you to submit your work for presentation at SYSTOR 2016, the 9th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference. The conference will take place June 6–8, 2016 in Haifa, Israel.

SYSTOR organizers aim to provide an excellent international forum for interaction across the systems research community, appealing and useful to academic and industrial researchers, welcoming both students and seasoned professionals. Following this goal, SYSTOR 2016 will host distinguished keynote speakers and offer an interactive poster session as well as social events.

SYSTOR promotes experimental and practical computer systems research and welcomes both academic and industrial contributions, including the following topics:

Operating systems, computer architecture, and their interactions
Distributed, parallel, and cloud systems
Networked, mobile, wireless, peer-to-peer, and sensor systems
Runtime systems and compiler/programming-language support
File and storage systems
Security, privacy, and trust
Virtualization
Embedded and real-time systems
Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability
Deployment, usage, and experience
Performance evaluation and workload characterization

SYSTOR 2016 solicits submissions in four separate categories:

Full Papers track - original research, at most 10 pages without the references
Short Papers Track - original research, at most 5 pages without the references
Highlight Papers Track - papers accepted at top-tier conferences
Posters Track - original work presented as poster accompanied by the extended abstract
Formatting instructions will be published when submission site is open.


Important Dates

Full and Short Papers Track
Paper Submission March 11, 2016
Acceptance Notification April 15, 2016
Camera-ready May 6, 2016

Highlight Papers Track
Extended Abstract Submission May 6, 2016
Acceptance Notification May 20, 2016

Posters Track
Extended Abstract Submission April 8, 2016
Acceptance Notification April 22, 2016
Camera-ready May 6, 2016

Conference June 6-8, 2016