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.

See more details at http://www.systor.org/2018/cfp.html

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

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SYSTOR 2018 solicits submissions in four separate categories:
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Full Papers Track - original research, at most 10 pages, excluding references
Short Papers Track - original research, at most 5 pages, excluding references
Highlight Papers Track - papers accepted at top-tier conferences
Posters with Extended Abstract Track - original work presented as a poster, accompanied by an extended abstract in the conference proceedings
Informal Student Presentations - informal presentation of research findings, co-located with the poster session


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Important Dates:
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Full and Short Papers Track
Paper Submission February 28, 2018 11:59pm PST
Acceptance Notification April 15, 2018
Camera-ready May 6, 2018

Highlight Papers Track
Extended Abstract Submission March 29, 2018 11:59 pm PDT
Acceptance Notification April 24, 2018

Posters with Extended Abstract
Track
Poster & Abstract Submission March 29, 2018 11:59 pm PDT
Acceptance Notification April 22, 2018
Camera-ready May 6, 2018

Informal Student Poster
Presentations Track
Poster Submission May 15, 2018 11:59 pm PDT
Acceptance Notification May 22, 2018

Conference June 4-6, 2018

SYSTOR 2018 will host distinguished keynote speakers, a poster session, and several social events at the conference. Our goal is to provide an excellent forum for interaction across the systems community: international, academic, and industrial, for both students and more established members.