ACM Sigmetrics 2026: Operational Systems Track

ACM Sigmetrics would like to point the community to a new track which may be of interest to some of you.

Operational Systems Track at ACM Sigmetrics 2026: This is a new track that seeks papers describing deployed systems that are in significant use in a real-world setting.

Papers in this track should focus on principled measurement, modeling, and metrics pertaining to the system. Papers in this track need not necessarily present new ideas as judged by the “academic novelty” standard that we traditionally use for research paper submissions.
Good papers could present how known ideas work in practice, how design principles scale (or do not scale) to large production-scale systems, prove (or, disprove) existing assumptions with real-world data, bring out new performance modeling problems from real-world systems to the attention of the research community, etc.
The paper must describe “lessons learned” in the context of prior approaches known in the literature. Accepted papers in this track will be published as a regular paper along with papers in the research track.

More information at https://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2026/