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14th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference

June 14 – 16, 2021, Online + Haifa, Israel

https://www.systor.org/2021/cfp.html

Paper Submission Deadline: March 9, 2021

Conference Format:
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For the health and safety of our community, the SYSTOR conference will be held in a hybrid format. Physical attendance will not be mandatory.
Conference Scope:
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The ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR) is an excellent international forum for interaction across the systems research community.
The program includes innovative, peer-reviewed research papers in the broad area of systems and storage, as well as distinguished keynote lecturers.
ACM SYSTOR is designed to appeal to academic and industrial researchers and practitioners, welcoming both students and seasoned professionals.
Topics:
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SYSTOR welcomes academic and industrial papers in systems and storage, broadly construed. SYSTOR encourages submissions that describe results from experimental system prototypes, as well as experience papers describing practical deployments, and valuable lessons learned from them.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Big data infrastructure
Cloud, datacenter, and distributed systems
Deployment, usage, and experience
Embedded and real-time systems
Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability
File and storage systems
Networked, mobile, wireless, peer-to-peer, and sensor systems
Operating systems, computer architecture, and their interactions
Performance evaluation and workload characterization
Runtime systems and compiler/programming-language support
Security, privacy, and trust
System design or adaptation for emerging storage technologies
Virtualization

Tracks:
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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 with Extended Abstract Track – original work presented as poster accompanied by the extended abstract
Informal Student Presentations – informal presentation of research findings, co-located with the poster session

Important Dates:
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Full and Short Papers Track
Paper Submission                                                           March 9, 2021
Acceptance Notification                                             April 25, 2021
Camera-ready                                                                   May 21, 2021

Highlight Papers Track
Extended Abstract Submission                               March 19, 2021
Acceptance Notification                                              April 30, 2021

Posters with Extended Abstract Track
Poster & Abstract Submission                                  March 19, 2021
Acceptance Notification                                               April 26, 2021
Camera-ready                                                                     May 3, 2021

Informal Student Poster Presentations Track
Poster Submission                                                            May 14, 2021
Acceptance Notification                                               May 21, 2021

Program Chairs:
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Vijay Chidambaram (University of Texas at Austin / VMWare Research, USA)
Danny Raz (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)

Program Committee:
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Aastha Mehta (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems / The University of British Columbia)
Adriana Szekeres (VMWare Research)
Aishwarya Ganesan (VMWare Research)
Amy Tai (VMWare Research)
Andromachi Chatzieleftheriou (Microsoft Research Cambridge)
Anirudh Badam (Microsoft Research Redmond)
Anusha S (Salesforce)
Arpan Gujarati (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)
Ashvin Goel (University of Toronto)
Avani Wildani (Emory University)
Cristina L. Abad (Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (ESPOL))
Huaicheng Li (Carnegie Mellon University)
James Mickens (Harvard University)
Jeanna Matthews (Clarkson University)
Jonathan Balkind (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Laurent Bindschaedler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))
Lukas Rupprecht (IBM Research Almaden)
Ming Liu (VMWare Research / University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Moshe Gabel (University of Toronto)
Muhammad Shahbaz (Stanford University / Purdue University)
Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda (University of Haifa)
Patrick P. C. Lee (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Prateek Sharma (Indiana University)
Ram Alaggapan (VMWare Research)
Redha Gouicem (Technical University Munich)
Rob Johnson (VMWare Research)
Russell Sears (Apple)
Ryan Stustman (University of Utah)
Sanidhya Kashyap (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL))
Sasha Fedorova (University of British Columbia)
Sudarsun Kannan (Rutgers University)
Thanumalayan Pillai (Google)
Vasily Tarasov (IBM Research Almaden)
Yongle Zhang (Purdue University)
Yosi Gilad (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Youjip Won (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST))
Youngjin Kwon (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST))
Youyou Lu (Tsinghua University)
Yuta Tokusashi (University of Cambridge)
Zhihao Jia (Carnegie Mellon University)
General Chairs:
Bruno Wassermann (IBM Research – Haifa, Israel)
Michal Malka (IBM Research – Haifa, Israel)

Posters Chair:
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Idan Levi (Red Hat, Israel)

Publication Chair:
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Joel Nider (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Publicity Chair:
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Michal Friedman (Technion, Israel)

Local Arrangements Chair:
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Viktoriia Forykova (IBM Research – Haifa, Israel)

Steering Committee Head:
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Dalit Naor (The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel)

Steering Committee:
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Michael Factor (IBM Research – Haifa, Israel)
Ethan Miller (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)
Liuba Shrira (Brandeis University, USA)
Dan Tsafrir (Technion, Israel & VMware Research Group, USA)
Gala Yadgar (Technion, Israel)
Erez Zadok (Stony Brook University, USA)

CfP: ACM SYSTOR 2021 HYBRID, June 14 – 16, Online + Haifa, IL – deadline approaching