IISWC 2026: Posters and Short Papers

IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC)
September 27-29, 2026
Boulder, CO, USA.

Tracks
This year we will accept poster abstracts in three tracks: short paper track, regular work-in-progress (WiP) track and PhD forum track. Submissions to regular WiP and PhD forum tracks have a 2-page limit, and short paper track have a 4-page limit. Please use the submission template as mentioned in “Submission guidelines” below. The deadline for all 3 tracks is August 3rd, 2026, 11:59 PM AoE

Topics of interest
Authors are invited to submit extended poster abstracts encompassing ongoing or late breaking research, tools or benchmarks in any of the following fields:

• Characterization of applications in domain
• Characterization of workloads for emerging workloads and architectures
• Characterization of OS, Virtual Machine, middleware and library behavior
• Implications of workloads in system design
• Benchmark methodologies and suites
• Measurement tools and techniques

Submission Guidelines

• Poster abstract submission website: https://iiswc2026posters.hotcrp.com
• Page limit: 4 pages for short paper track, 2 pages for regular WiP and PhD forum track, including references, in PDF format. Single-spaced double column pages using a 10-point size font on 8.5×11 inch using the submission template.
• Submission template: IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings
• Proceedings: Regular WiP and PhD forum poster abstracts will NOT be included in the IISWC 2026 proceedings, so that the authors can resubmit their work to a future conference or journal. Short paper poster abstracts will be included in the IISWC 2026 proceedings.