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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span class="">[apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message]</span><br class="" /><span class="">============================================================</span><br class="" /><strong class=""><br class="" /> C A L L F O R P A P E R S<br class="" /> A C M S Y S T O R 2 0 2 1 H Y B R I D<br class="" /> </strong><span class="">14th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference</span><br class="" /><br class="" /><span class=""> June 14 - 16, 2021, Online + Haifa, Israel</span><br class="" /><br class="" /><span class=""> </span><a class="" href="https://www.systor.org/2021/cfp.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class=""><u class="">https://www.systor.org/2021/cfp.html</u></span></a><br class="" /><br class="" /><span class=""> Paper Submission Deadline: March 9, 2021</span><br class="" /><strong class=""><br class="" />Conference Format:</strong><br class="" /><span class="">=================</span><br class="" /><span class="">For the health and safety of our community, the SYSTOR conference</span><br class="" /><span class="">will be held in a </span><strong class="">hybrid</strong><span class=""> format. Physical attendance will not be mandatory.</span><br class="" /><strong class=""><br class="" />Conference Scope:</strong><br class="" /><span class="">=================</span><br class="" /><span class="">The ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR) is an excellent</span><br class="" /><span class="">international forum for interaction across the systems research community.</span><br class="" /><span class="">The program includes innovative, peer-reviewed research papers in the broad area</span><br class="" /><span class="">of systems and storage, as well as distinguished keynote lecturers.</span><br class="" /><span class="">ACM SYSTOR is designed to appeal to academic and industrial researchers</span><br class="" /><span class="">and practitioners, welcoming both students and seasoned professionals.</span><br class="" /><strong class=""><br class="" />Topics:</strong><br class="" /><span class="">=================</span><br class="" /><span class="">SYSTOR welcomes academic and industrial papers in systems and storage,</span><br class="" /><span class="">broadly construed. SYSTOR encourages submissions that describe results from</span><br class="" /><span class="">experimental system prototypes, as well as experience papers describing</span><br class="" /><span class="">practical deployments, and valuable lessons learned from them.</span><br class="" /><br class="" /><span class="">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span><br class="" /><br class="" /><span class="">Big data infrastructure</span><br class="" /><span class="">Cloud, datacenter, and distributed systems</span><br class="" /><span class="">Deployment, usage, and experience</span><br class="" /><span class="">Embedded and real-time systems</span><br class="" /><span class="">Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability</span><br class="" /><span class="">File and storage systems</span><br class="" /><span class="">Networked, mobile, wireless, peer-to-peer, and sensor systems</span><br class="" /><span class="">Operating systems, computer architecture, and their interactions</span><br class="" /><span class="">Performance evaluation and workload characterization</span><br class="" /><span class="">Runtime systems and compiler/programming-language support</span><br class="" /><span class="">Security, privacy, and trust</span><br class="" /><span class="">System design or adaptation for emerging storage technologies</span><br class="" /><span class="">Virtualization</span><br class="" /><strong class=""><br class="" />Tracks:</strong><br class="" /><span class="">=================</span><br class="" /><span class="">Full Papers track - original research, at most 10 pages without the references</span><br class="" /><span class="">Short Papers Track - original research, at most 5 pages without the references</span><br class="" /><span class="">Highlight Papers Track - papers accepted at top-tier conferences</span><br class="" /><span class="">Posters with Extended Abstract Track - original work presented as poster</span><br class="" /><span class=""> accompanied by the extended abstract</span><br class="" /><span class="">Informal Student Presentations - informal presentation of research findings,</span><br class="" /><span class=""> co-located with the poster session</span><br class="" /><strong class=""><br class="" />Important Dates:</strong><br class="" /><span class="">=================</span><br class="" /><span class="">Full and Short Papers Track</span><br class="" /><span class="">Paper Submission March 9, 2021</span><br class="" /><span class="">Acceptance Notification April 25, 2021</span><br class="" /><span class="">Camera-ready May 21, 2021</span><br class="" /><br class="" /><span class="">Highlight Papers Track</span><br class="" /><span class="">Extended Abstract Submission March 19, 2021</span><br class="" /><span class="">Acceptance Notification April 30, 2021</span><br class="" /><br class="" /><span class="">Posters with Extended Abstract Track</span><br class="" /><span class="">Poster & Abstract Submission March 19, 2021</span><br class="" /><span class="">Acceptance Notification April 26, 2021</span><br class="" /><span class="">Camera-ready May 3, 2021</span><br class="" /><br class="" /><span class="">Informal Student Poster Presentations Track</span><br class="" /><span class="">Poster Submission May 14, 2021</span><br class="" /><span class="">Acceptance Notification May 21, 2021</span><br class="" /><strong class=""><br class="" />Program Chairs:</strong><br class="" /><span class="">===============</span><br class="" /><span class="">Vijay Chidambaram (University of Texas at Austin / VMWare Research, USA)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Danny Raz (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)</span><br class="" /><strong class=""><br class="" />Program Committee:</strong><br class="" /><span class="">==================</span><br class="" /><span class="">Aastha Mehta (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems / The University of British Columbia)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Adriana Szekeres (VMWare Research)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Aishwarya Ganesan (VMWare Research)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Amy Tai (VMWare Research)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Andromachi Chatzieleftheriou (Microsoft Research Cambridge)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Anirudh Badam (Microsoft Research Redmond)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Anusha S (Salesforce)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Arpan Gujarati (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Ashvin Goel (University of Toronto)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Avani Wildani (Emory University)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Cristina L. Abad (Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (ESPOL))</span><br class="" /><span class="">Huaicheng Li (Carnegie Mellon University)</span><br class="" /><span class="">James Mickens (Harvard University)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Jeanna Matthews (Clarkson University)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Jonathan Balkind (University of California, Santa Barbara)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Laurent Bindschaedler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))</span><br class="" /><span class="">Lukas Rupprecht (IBM Research Almaden)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Ming Liu (VMWare Research / University of Wisconsin-Madison)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Moshe Gabel (University of Toronto)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Muhammad Shahbaz (Stanford University / Purdue University)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda (University of Haifa)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Patrick P. C. Lee (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Prateek Sharma (Indiana University)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Ram Alaggapan (VMWare Research)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Rob Johnson (VMWare Research)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Sanidhya Kashyap (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL))</span><br class="" /><span class="">Sasha Fedorova (University of British Columbia)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Sudarsun Kannan (Rutgers University)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Thanumalayan Pillai (Google)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Vasily Tarasov (IBM Research Almaden)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Yongle Zhang (Purdue University)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Yosi Gilad (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Youjip Won (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST))</span><br class="" /><span class="">Youngjin Kwon (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST))</span><br class="" /><span class="">Youyou Lu (Tsinghua University)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Yuta Tokusashi (University of Cambridge)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Zhihao Jia (Carnegie Mellon University)</span><br class="" /><strong class=""><br class="" />General Chair:</strong><br class="" /><span class="">==============</span><br class="" /><span class="">Bruno Wassermann (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Michal Malka (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel)</span><br class="" /><strong class=""><br class="" />Poster Chair:</strong><br class="" /><span class="">=============</span><br class="" /><span class="">Idan Levy (RedHat, Israel)</span><br class="" /><strong class=""><br class="" />Publication Chair:</strong><br class="" /><span class="">==================</span><br class="" /><span class="">Joel Nider (University of British Columbia, Canada)</span><br class="" /><strong class=""><br class="" />Publicity Chair:</strong><br class="" /><span class="">================</span><br class="" /><span class="">Michal Friedman (Technion, Israel)</span><br class="" /><strong class=""><br class="" />Local Arrangements Chair:</strong><br class="" /><span class="">=========================</span><br class="" /><span class="">Viktoriia Forykova (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel)</span><br class="" /><strong class=""><br class="" />Steering Committee Head:</strong><br class="" /><span class="">========================</span><br class="" /><span class="">Dalit Naor (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel)</span><br class="" /><strong class=""><br class="" />Steering Committee:</strong><br class="" /><span class="">===================</span><br class="" /><span class="">Michael Factor (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Ethan Miller (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Liuba Shrira (Brandeis University, USA)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Dan Tsafrir (Technion, Israel & VMware Research Group, USA)</span><br class="" /><span class="">Erez Zadok (Stony Brook University, USA)</span></div>
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