Call for Papers: SYSTOR 22
https://www.systor.org/2022/
Submitted by Arik Rinberg

15th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference 
https://www.systor.org/2022
June 13 – 15, 2022, Haifa, Israel

Scope
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 and storage, as well as distinguished keynote lecturers, a poster session, and social events. ACM SYSTOR is designed to appeal to academic and industrial researchers and practitioners, welcoming both students and seasoned professionals.

Topics
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. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Big Data infrastructure
• Cloud, edge, datacenter, and distributed systems
• Deployment, usage, and experience
• 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 security and trust
• System design or adaptation for emerging storage technologies
• Virtualization and containers

Tracks
Full Papers track – original research, at most 10 pages excluding references
Short Papers Track – original research, at most 5 pages excluding references
Highlight Papers Track – papers accepted at top-tier conferences
Posters with Extended Abstract Track – original work presented as poster accompanied by the extended abstract

Important Dates

Full and Short Papers Track
Paper Submission              Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Acceptance Notification      Thursday, April 21, 2022
Camera-ready                     Monday, May 9, 202

Highlight Papers Track
Extended Abstract Submission  Friday, April 1, 2022
Acceptance Notification             Saturday, April 30, 202

Posters with Extended Abstract Track
Poster & Abstract Submission  Monday, March 14, 2022
Acceptance Notification            Thursday, April 14, 2022
Camera-ready                           Monday, May 9, 2022
Conference                               June 13-15, 2022

Program Chairs
Frank Bellosa (KIT, Germany)
Moshe (Mickey) Gabel (University of Toronto, Canada)

Program Committee
Abutalib Aghayev (The Pennsylvania State University)
Adam Morrison (Tel Aviv University)
Angela Demke Brown (University of Toronto)
Arpan Gujarati (University of British Columbia)
Aviad Zuck
Chia-Lin Yang (National Taiwan University)
Christian Wressnegger (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
Daniel Lohmann (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Dejan Kostic (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Eran Gilad (Yahoo Reserach)
Fabio Pierazzi (King’s College London)
Gala Yadgar (Technion)
Geoff Kuenning (Harvey Mudd College)
Haris Volos (University of Cyprus)
Kento Sato (RIKEN)
Lluís Vilanova (Imperial College London)
Lukas Rupprecht (IBM Research – Almaden)
Nadav Amit (VMWare Research)
Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda (CRI, University of Haifa)
Rüdiger Kapitza (TU Braunschweig)
Sam H. Noh (UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology))
Shadi A. Noghabi (Microsoft Research)
Shir Landau Feibish (The Open University of Israel)
Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai (Google)
Tianyin Xu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC))
Youjip Won (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST))
Young-ri Choi (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST))
Youngjae Kim (Sogang University)
Youyou Lu (Tsinghua University)
Yu Hua (Huazhong University of Science and Technology

General Chair
Michal Malka (IBM Research – Haifa, Israel)
Hillel Kolodner (IBM Research – Haifa, Israel)

Poster Chair
Dolev Adas (IBM Research – Haifa, Israel)

Publication Chair
Swati Goswami (University of British Columbia, Canada

Publicity Chair
Arik Rinberg (Technion, Israel

Steering Committee Head
Dalit Naor (The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel

Steering Committee
Michael Factor (IBM Research – Haifa, Israel)
Ethan Miller (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)
Liuba Shrira (Brandeis University, USA)
Dan Tsafrir (Technion, Israel & VMware Research Group, USA)
Erez Zadok (Stony Brook University, USA)

Call for Papers: FCCM 2022

Submitted by Callie Hao

The 30th IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
https://www.fccm.org/
May 15^th – May 18^th, 2022 | New York
Feel free to follow FCCM Linkedin Page and join the FCCM Linkedin Group!

The IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM) is the original and premier forum for presenting and discussing new research related to computing that exploits the unique features and capabilities of FPGAs and other reconfigurable hardware.

FCCM 2022 will be a hybrid event. There will be a live face-to-face conference at NYC and a virtual program. Please refer to the FCCM website for details. At least one author will be required to register and attend the conference. Failure to present at the conference may result in the removal of the submission from IEEE Xplore.

Submissions are solicited on the following topics related to Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCMs) including, but not limited to:

Architectures

• Novel reconfigurable architectures, including overlay architectures
• Architectures for high performance and/or low power computing
• Security assessment and enhancements for reconfigurable computing
• Specialized memory systems including volatile, non-volatile, and hybrid memory subsystems
• Emerging technologies with in-field reconfiguration abilities
• Clusters, data centers, or large systems of reconfigurable devices
• Heterogeneous programmable architectures

Abstractions, Programming Models, and Tools

• Abstractions, programming models, interfaces, and runtimes, including virtualization
• New languages and design frameworks for spatial or heterogeneous applications
• High-level synthesis and designer productivity in general
• Software-Defined-systems (e.g. radio, networks, frameworks for new domains)
• Customizable soft processors systems

Reconfiguration

• Run-time management of reconfigurable hardware
• System resilience/fault tolerance for reconfigurable hardware
• Evolvable, adaptable, or autonomous reconfigurable computing systems
• Security assessment and enhancement of run-time reconfiguration

Applications

• Data center or cluster with reconfigurable applications
• New uses of run-time reconfiguration in applications-specific systems
• Applications that utilize reconfigurable technology for performance and efficiency, and particularly submissions that make comparisons with other highly parallel architectures such as GPUs or DSPs
• Novel use of state-of-the-art commercial FPGAs

Submission Website: https://www.fccm.org/submission

Important Dates:

All deadlines apply to the Anywhere on Earth (UTC – 12) timezone
Abstracts Due (All Papers)                              January 3, 2022
Submissions Due (All Papers)                         January 10, 2022
Workshop Proposals Due                                February 13, 2022
Rebuttal Period                                                February 24 – 28, 2022
Notification of Acceptance (All Papers)            March 21, 2022
Demo Night Submissions                                 April 15, 2022
Notification of Acceptance (Demo Night)         April 18, 2022
Camera-Ready Submission                             April 11, 2022
Early Registration Deadline                             April 19, 2022
Conference                                                      May 15 – May 18, 2021

Organizing Committee:

General Chair                                     Zhiru Zhang (Cornell)
Program Chair                                    Eriko Nurvitadhi (Intel)
Finance Chair                                     Andrew Schmidt (USC ISI)
Hybridization Chair                             Ron Sass (UNCC)
Sponsorship Chairs                            Lana Josipovic (ETH), Guojie Luo (PKU)
Publications Chair                              Gabriel Weisz (Microsoft)
Workshops Chair                                Yun (Eric) Liang (PKU)
Publicity and Website Chair               Cong (Callie) Hao (Georgia Tech)
Expo and Demo-Night Chair              Grace Zgheib (Intel)
Panel Chair                                         Zhenman Fang (SFU)
Local Arrangement Chairs                 Mohamed Abdelfattah (Cornell Tech), Debjit Pal (Cornell)

Paper Formats:

Long papers are limited to 8 pages (excluding references). Short papers are limited to 4 pages (excluding references). Authors are encouraged to submit preliminary work as a short paper. This category is intended for new projects and early results or work that can be concisely presented in the 4-page budget. Submissions accepted as posters will have a one-page extended abstract.

Page restrictions for all formats exclude references, which may use additional pages. Submissions violating the formatting requirements may be automatically rejected. Do not submit the same work as more than one of the formats.

Accepted papers will have the same page lengths as initial submissions. Short papers will have short oral presentations and long papers may have long or short presentations based on committee decisions on time required to present the material.

All submissions should be written in English. An online submission link will be available on the FCCM website. Papers must conform to the US letter-sized IEEE conference proceedings format to be reviewed and published. A conformant LaTeX template is available here and a Microsoft Word template is available here. Overleaf users can find the LaTeX template here.

Review Process:

FCCM uses a double-blind reviewing system. Manuscripts must not identify authors or their affiliations. Authors are encouraged to cite their own work but must not implicitly identify themselves. For example, references that clearly identify the authors (“We build on our previous work…”) should be written as “This work builds on XYZ [citation]”. Do not put a “deleted for double-blind” entry in the reference section.

In the case of widely-available Open Source software, authors should cite the website(s) but not claim to own them. Authors should also remember to mask grant numbers and other government markings during the review process. Note that there are resources to blind open-source repositories for review such as: https://github.com/tdurieux/anonymous_github.  Papers that attempt to identify authors or leverage prior work or institutional support for a competitive advantage in the peer review process will not be considered. Placing a preliminary version of the unpublished paper on arXiv is not disqualifying, but it is also not encouraged; just because a paper can be unblinded by active search will not undermine the spirit of the double-blind review. Artifacts, including open-source designs and tools are encouraged; if there are questions about how to handle blind-review, contact the program chair.

FCCM 2021 includes a rebuttal phase. Specific questions from reviewers will be made available by February 24, 2022. Authors have the option to provide an up to 500-word response by February 28, 2022. Reviewers will consider the responses during final paper deliberations.

Simultaneous Submissions:

Papers must not be simultaneously under review or waiting to appear at another conference or in a journal, and must not be essentially the same as any paper that has been previously published. If a paper contains text or technical content that is similar to a previously published or submitted paper, that other paper should be cited in the FCCM submission, and the differences should be made clear.

Reviewer Conflicts：

Authors must register any program-committee conflicts as they submit their paper. Conflicts can include those that have co-authored a paper in the past 3 years, those that have current or shared institutional affiliation within the past year, or other situations in which the relationship would prevent a reviewer from being objective. Note that if an undeclared conflict is discovered, or a conflict is declared in an attempt to “game” the review process, the submission may be rejected. If you believe you may have a conflict with the program chair, please contact the program chair well in advance of the submission deadline.

Best Paper Award and a Special Section for the Best FCCM 2022 Papers in ACM TRETS:

FCCM 2022 will continue the tradition of having a best long and short paper award. We will also invite the authors of the best papers to extend their work to be considered for publication in a special section of ACM’s Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS) for FCCM 2022.

Special Note to Authors:

Across all topics (and especially for application papers) successful manuscripts will include sufficient details to reproduce the results presented (e.g., full part numbers, software versions). Application papers should not just be an implementation of an application on an FPGA, but should show how reconfigurable technology is leveraged by the application, and should ideally contain insights and lessons that can be carried forward into future designs.  Additional suggestions and guidelines are available on www.fccm.org. See the ACM/TCFPGA Hall-of-Fame (hof.tcfpga.org) and the set of previous FCCM Best Paper winners (wiki.tcfpga.org/FCCMBest) for outstanding examples of FCCM papers.

Questions：

Questions about this call, submissions, and potential submissions should be directed to the program chair, Eriko Nurvitadhi.

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Call for Papers: ISCA 2022
https://iscaconf.org/isca2022
Submitted by Zehra Sura

The International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) is the premier forum for new ideas and experimental results in computer architecture. The conference specifically seeks particularly forward-looking and novel submissions. In 2022, the 49th edition of ISCA will be held in New York City, New York, USA.

Important Dates:
Abstract Deadline: November 16, 2021 at 11:59 PM AoE
Full Paper Deadline: November 23, 2021 at 11:59 PM AoE
Rebuttal/Revision Period: February 7–17, 2022
Author Notification: March 2, 2022

Topics:
Papers are solicited on a broad range of topics, including (but not limited to):
Processor, memory, and storage systems architecture
Multiprocessor systems
Datacenter-scale computing
IoT, mobile, and embedded architecture
Interconnection network, router, and network interface architecture
Accelerator-based, application-specific, and reconfigurable architecture
Architectural support for programming languages or software development
Architectural support for interfacing with accelerators
Architectural support for security, virtual memory, and virtualization
Instruction-, thread-, and data-level parallelism
Dependable processor and system architecture
Architecture for emerging technologies and applications, including machine learning, novel memory technologies, quantum computing, etc.
Effects of circuits or technology on architecture
Architecture modeling and simulation methodologies
Evaluation and measurement of real computing systems

Industry Track:
This year, ISCA has an industry track for submissions that provide retrospective evaluations of real working products, or of planned products that were cancelled but present interesting insights or lessons learned. Note that the industry track is not meant for student intern projects, and any such papers will be rejected without consideration. Industry track papers are due in January 2022.

Organizers:
General Chairs: Valentina Salapura (AMD) and Mohamed Zahran (NYU)
Program Chair: Fred Chong (UChicago)
Program Vice-Chair: Lingjia Tang (Michigan)

Call for Papers: MLSys 2022
https://mlsys.org/
Submitted by Carole-Jean Wu

The MLSys research community is rapidly growing, both in academia and industry. This area historically has not been particularly well addressed by existing Machine Learning or Systems focused conferences. To bridge this gap, we have the MLSys conference for research spanning ML and systems. The goal is to make a home for exceptional research by creating a venue to showcase the work that occurs at the intersection of systems and machine learning and a community with expertise in both areas to evaluate the work.

The MLSys conference aims to elicit new connections amongst these fields, including identifying best practices and design principles for learning systems, as well as developing novel learning methods and theory tailored to practical machine learning workflows.

Important Dates:

• Paper submission deadline: Oct 08, 2021
• Author rebuttal period: Dec 08 to Dec 15, 2021
• Decision notification: Jan 14, 2022
• Camera ready: Mar 04, 2022
• Conference: Apr 11 to Apr 14, 2022

Topics: Papers are solicited on a broad range of topics, including (but not limited to):

• Efficient model training, inference, and serving
• Distributed and parallel learning algorithms
• Privacy and security for ML applications
• Testing, debugging, and monitoring of ML applications
• Fairness, interpretability and explainability for ML applications
• Data preparation, feature selection, and feature extraction
• ML programming models and abstractions
• ML compilers and runtime
• Programming languages for machine learning
• Visualization of data, models, and predictions
• Specialized hardware for machine learning
• Hardware-efficient ML methods
• Machine Learning for Systems
• Systems for Machine Learning

Organizers:
General Chair: Diana Marculescu
Program Chairs: Yuejie Chi and Carole-Jean Wu