Call for Papers

SYSTOR accepts both full-length and short papers. A short paper is intended for an idea that can be described and evaluated in fewer pages; the goal of the short paper is not for preliminary work or workshop-style position papers.

A good SYSTOR paper should present a novel, compelling solution to a well-motivated problem. The evaluation should demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of the solution in settings that are as realistic as possible, including test applications workloads, system parameters, and assumed constraints. Authors should clearly describe their contribution in the context of prior work, and draw meaningful conclusions from their work.

The program committee also encourages submissions that describe lessons learned from operational (especially large-scale) system deployments. Such submissions are expected to include sufficient details of the system, its design goals, and the methods used for evaluating whether these goals were met.

The program committee will value submissions accompanied by supplemental material such as traces and open-source code that can help reproduce the reported results, and advance additional research in the field.

A small set of outstanding papers will be forwarded to a suitable journal, such as ACM journal Transactions on Storage (TOS) or Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), for a fast-tracked review process for an expanded version of the paper.

As a published ACM author, you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects.

SYSTOR also welcomes academic and industrial posters. See “Call for Papers” above for focus and relevant areas.

A good poster submission will articulate and motivate an interesting problem and describe a new insight or approach to addressing this problem. It will clearly present the work in progress (or attained results), and the expected outcomes from future work. The poster should present these details in a manner that is clear and captivating.

Poster submissions should include a one-page extended abstract, and a draft of the poster. The extended abstracts of accepted posters will be included in the online conference proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. The program committee will review poster submissions in a single-blind manner.

As a published ACM author, you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects.

Please follow the poster formatting instructions. The author kit, which contains the Latex style and template, is available here.

Accepted posters can opt-in for physical presentation at the Israeli Systems & AI Workshop in person.

Research papers (full and short) should be submitted through: https://systor25.hotcrp.com/

Posters should be submitted through: https://systor25posters.hotcrp.com/

ISW-only posters (physical presence required) can be submitted by August 15. Send a title, abstract and name of presenter to Lior Shafir and Sarel Cohen.

Review Process

The program committee will review submissions in a double-blind manner. All submissions should be properly anonymized, and all identifiable information should be removed whenever possible, including obvious self-references. Papers not properly anonymized may be rejected without review.

Any submissions accompanied by a non-disclosure agreement will be returned without review.

Copyright and originality of the work

SYSTOR will enforce ACM’s plagiarism policy regarding copying and resubmitting prior work. Simultaneous submissions are not allowed: any work submitted to SYSTOR must not be under consideration for another workshop, conference, or journal.

AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the earlier of either the first day of the conference or the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

Formatting instructions

Submissions must be printable PDF files. When creating your submission, you must use the sigplan proceedings template of ACM’s acmart Latex class, which is available on the official ACM site. Your main LaTeX file should have the following structure:

Please ensure that your paper satisfies all the above requirements for content and formatting before submission; if you have a question about any of these issues, please email the program chairs.

Additional instructions regarding camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be sent directly to the corresponding authors and will appear here after the authors have been notified.

Arxiv

A paper submitted to SYSTOR can be submitted simultaneously to Arxiv, with some changes. We would like the authors to make an honest effort to preserve anonymity. Please ensure the SYSTOR submission uses a different title and a different system name from the Arxiv version. It would be useful to let the chairs know if there is an Arxiv paper so that we can intervene if PC members find it accidentally and think the submission is plagiarizing the Arxiv paper.

Open Source

The authors of a SYSTOR submission are encouraged to associate a source code repo with their submission, but this repo must be completely anonymized. It is alright if a named (= not anonymized) source code repo exists, so long as it isn’t associated/linked with the submission in any way. An anonymized repo can be a clone of the named repo, which is modified to be anonymous. Another way to do this is https://anonymous.4open.science/ .

Camera-Ready Submission Instructions 

1. Make sure fonts are type 1 (scalable), NOT Type 3 (bit-mapped), and embedded within the document. More details can be found in General Instructions for Proceedings Volumes at www.acm.org/publications/gi-proceedings-current, item #8.
2. Authors must use the ACM classification system. For details see https://dl.acm.org/ccs and instructions in the paper template.
3. Please include paper keywords (specified with the \keywords command in (La)TeX).
4. Please include a short ABSTRACT section for posters. Do not put your entire extended abstract under this section.
5. Papers/posters must not include page numbers in the final manuscript and there is no need to include the “ACM Reference” (to remove these, you may need to use \settopmatter{printacmref=false,printfolios=false}.
6. Be sure that there are no bad page or column breaks, meaning no widows (last line of a paragraph at the top of a column). Section and subsection headings should remain with at least 2 lines of body text when near the end of a page or column.
7. Include the DOI in your paper that you received from ACM (use \acmDOI{####}) and update the ISBN data: \acmISBN{979-8-4007-1181-7}
8. The camera-ready version must include the updated copyright text you received from ACM. If you did not see an email referring to the ACM right management form, please check your SPAM folders. If this form is not received for a paper before the deadline, then that paper cannot be included in the proceedings. Notes on adding copyright text:
   Author(s) receive their copyright text upon completing the eRights form. This information is necessary and must be added to your publication.
   Depending on this copyright text, the authors can take the following action:
   1. If authors use LaTeX they only need to set the correct option to \setcopyright (follow the eRights system option):
      1. acmcopyright ==> The authors transfer the copyright to the ACM (the “traditional” choice).
      2. acmlicensed  ==>The authors retain the copyright but license the publication rights to ACM.
      3. rightsretained ==> The authors retain the copyright and publication rights to themselves or somebody else.
   2. If author(s) use Word they can copy the text they received (the full copyright text is included in the eRights reply)
      Additionally note that the author can access the correct copyright under their paper edit submission link. At the top there is ‘Final version preparation’, which include the copyright text message. There is also a ‘Latex Instruction’ (collapsed) section with exact LaTeX instructions.
9. You should use the default class without font size and without the anonymous flag – \documentclass[sigconf]{acmart,10pt} – this would set 10pt font. Page count remains unchanged.
10. Alongside the camera-ready PDF, you will be required to *submit the source files* for your paper, including ALL files which were used to create the final output (PDF), be they Word, LaTeX, image files, etc. This is mandatory.
11.  The following template contains the required settings: Concise-Paper-Template.zip

Camera-Ready Submission Checks 

• Verify all mandatory fields are filled in both HotCRP and the paper itself (title, authors, abstract, keywords, classification, refs)

• Verify that the correct copyright text is inserted

• Check formatting, margins, font sizes/types etc.

For additional information, refer to: “www.acm.org/publications/gi-proceedings-current“.