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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">[ Apologies if you receive this multiple times ]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"> Call for Papers: SYSTOR 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"> June 4-6, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"> Haifa, Israel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">We invite you to submit original and innovative papers to SYSTOR 2018, The 11th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">The conference will take place June 4-6, 2018 in Haifa, Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.systor.org">http://www.systor.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">SYSTOR has a broad scope, promoting experimental and practical computer systems research encompassing the following topics:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">* Big data infrastructure<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">* Cloud, datacenter, and distributed systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">* Deployment, usage, and experience<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">* Embedded and real-time systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">* Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">* File and storage systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">* Networked, mobile, wireless, peer-to-peer, and sensor systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">* Operating systems, computer architecture, and their interactions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">* Performance evaluation and workload characterization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">* Runtime systems and compiler/programming-language support<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">* Security, privacy, and trust<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">* System design or adaptation for emerging storage technologies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">* Virtualization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;background:white">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</span><span lang="EN">. We solicit paper submissions in five separate categories:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">* Full Papers track - original research, at most 10 pages without the references<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">* Short Papers Track - original research, at most 5 pages without the references<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">* Highlight Papers Track - papers accepted at top-tier conferences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">* Posters with Extended AbstractTrack - original work presented as poster accompanied by the extended abstract<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">* <a href="https://www.systor.org/2018/cfp.html#Informal">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Informal Student Presentations</span></a> - informal presentation of research findings, co-located with the poster session<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Formatting and submission instructions:<a href="http://www.systor.org/2017/cfp.html"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">
</span></a><a href="http://www.systor.org/2018/cfp.html%0d">http://www.systor.org/2018/cfp.html</a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">* Full and Short Papers Track <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN">* Paper Submission February 28, 2018
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN">* Acceptance Notification April 15, 2018 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN">* Camera-ready May 6, 2018 <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">* Highlight Papers Track <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN">* Extended Abstract Submission March 29, 2018
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN">* Acceptance Notification April 24, 2018 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">* Posters with Extended Abstract Track <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt"><span lang="EN">* Poster & Abstract Submission March 29, 2018
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN">* Acceptance Notification April 22, 2018 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN">* Camera-ready May 6, 2018 <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">* Informal Student Poster Presentations Track <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN">* Poster Submission May 15, 2018
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN">* Acceptance Notification May 22, 2018 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><b><span lang="EN">Program Chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><span lang="EN">* Gala Yadgar (Technion, Israel)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><span lang="EN">* Donald E. Porter (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><b><span lang="EN">General Chair:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><span lang="EN">* David Breitgand (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><b><span lang="EN">Posters Chair:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><span lang="EN">* Michael Shapira (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><b><span lang="EN">Publication Chair:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><span lang="EN">* Ittay Eyal (Technion, Israel)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><b><span lang="EN">Publicity Chair:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><span lang="EN">* Maayan Goldstein (Nokia, Bell Labs, Israel)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><b><span lang="EN">Steering Committee Head:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><span lang="EN">* Dalit Naor (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><b><span lang="EN">Steering Committee:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><span lang="EN">* Michael Factor (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><span lang="EN">* Ethan Miller (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><span lang="EN">* Liuba Shrira (Brandeis University, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><span lang="EN">* Dan Tsafrir (Technion, Israel)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><span lang="EN">* Erez Zadok (Stony Brook University, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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