The ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR) is an international forum for interaction across the systems research community. The program includes innovative, peer-reviewed research papers in the broad area of systems, as well as distinguished keynote lecturers, and a poster session. ACM SYSTOR is designed to engage academic and industrial researchers and practitioners, welcoming both students and seasoned professionals.
Call for Papers
SYSTOR has traditionally welcomed academic and industrial papers in systems, including storage, cloud and distributed systems, networking, and systems security, 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:
- Systems and workload optimization for AI/ML systems
- Sustainability/carbon footprint of computer and network systems
- System security and trust
- Big Data infrastructure
- Cloud, edge, data center, and distributed systems
- 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
- System deployment, usage, and experience
- System design or adaptation for emerging storage technologies
- Virtualization and containers
- Storage 3.0
- Systems for AI and AI for Systems
SYSTOR 2025 solicits submissions in two separate categories:
- Full Papers Track – original research, at most 12 pages, excluding references
- Short Papers Track – original research, at most 5 pages, excluding references
Attendance
Systor 2025 will be held virtually on September 8–9, followed by the Israeli Systems Workshop (ISW), which will be held physically in Haifa on September 10
| Full and Short Papers Track | |
| Paper Submission | Thursday, May 15, 2025 |
| Acceptance Notification | Thursday, July 10, 2025 |
| Conference | September 8-10, 2025 |
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.
Research papers (full and short) should be submitted through: https://systor25.hotcrp.com/
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:
| % use the base acmart.cls
% use the sigplan proceeding template with the default 10 pt fonts % nonacm option removes ACM-related text in the submission. \documentclass[sigplan,nonacm]{acmart} % enable page numbers \settopmatter{printfolios=true} \begin{document} \title{…} \begin{abstract} … \end{abstract} \maketitle % should come after the abstract % Add the paper content here % use the ACM bibliography style \bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format} \bibliography{…} \end{document} |
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/ .
