C A L L F O R P A P E R S

ACM SYSTOR 2026
The 19th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference
September 8-9, 2026, Virtual Event

In collaboration with the 3rd Israeli Systems & AI Workshop
September 7, 2026, RedHat Raanana

https://www.systor.org/2026

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

Topics:
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SYSTOR has traditionally welcomed academic and industrial papers
in systems, including storage, cloud and distributed systems,
networking, AI systems and systems security. 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:
- Systems and workload optimization for AI/ML
- AI for systems
- Rack-scale heterogeneous compute, scale-up fabric and orchestration
- Sustainability/carbon footprint of computer and network systems
- Systems security, privacy and trust
- Cloud, edge, data center, and distributed systems
- Big data systems and infrastructure
- Embedded and real-time systems
- Networked, mobile, wireless, peer-to-peer, and sensor systems
- Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability
- File, object, block, KV, and other storage systems
- Systems for emerging storage technologies
- Runtime systems and compiler/programming-language support
- Operating systems, computer architecture, and their interactions
- Virtualization and containerization
- Performance evaluation and workload characterization
- System deployment, operational experience, and production‑scale insights

SYSTOR Tracks:
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Full Papers Track – original research, at most 12 pages,
excluding references
Short Papers Track – original research, at most 5 pages,
excluding references
Posters with Extended Abstract Track – original work presented
as a poster, accompanied by an extended abstract in the
conference proceedings (accepted posters can opt-in for physical
presentation at the Israeli Systems & AI Workshop in person,
SYSTOR physical attendance is not mandatory)

The Israeli Systems & AI Workshop:
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Highlight Papers – papers recently accepted at top-tier
conferences (physical attendance required)

Attendance:
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SYSTOR 2026 will be held virtually on September 8-9,
warmed-up by the Israeli Systems & AI (ISAI) Workshop,
which will be held physically on September 7.

Important Dates - SYSTOR:
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Full and Short Papers Track:

Paper Submission: Thursday, May 21, 2026
Acceptance Notification: Monday, July 13, 2026
Title and Author confirmation: Monday, July 20, 2026
Camera-ready:
- to shepherd: Monday, August 3, 2026
- post shepherd: Monday, August 10, 2026
- recorded talk: Monday, August 31, 2026

Posters with Extended Abstract Track:

Poster & Abstract Submission: Thursday, July 16, 2026
Acceptance Notification: Thursday, July 28, 2026
Title and Author confirmation: Monday, August 3, 2026
Camera ready:
- to shepherd: Monday, August 3, 2026
- post shepherd: Monday, August 10, 2026
- recorded talk: Monday, August 31, 2026

SYSTOR Virtual Conference: September 8-9, 2026
The Israeli Systems & AI Workshop: September 7, 2026


Program Chairs:
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Anand Sivasubramaniam (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Lluis Vilanova (Imperial College London, UK)

Program Committee:
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Adithya Kumar (Meta Platforms)
Alireza Sanaee (Cambridge University)
Assaf Natanzon (Eon)
Avishay Traeger (Red Hat)
Haoran Qiu (Microsoft Azure Research)
Kevin Hsieh (Microsoft Research)
Lingxiao Ma (Tile‑AI)
Ming Liu (UW‑Madison)
Muli Ben‑Yehuda (Hypervisor Technologies)
Nadav Amit (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)
Orit Wasserman (Google Cloud)
Ornà Agmon Ben‑Yehuda (University of Haifa and Nextsilicon)
Pınar Tözün (IT University of Copenhagen)
Roy Nissim (Red Hat AI)
Sudarsun Kannan (Rutgers University)
Surbhi Palande (University of British Columbia)
Yifei Liu (Google)
Zsolt István (TU Darmstadt)
Mark Silberstein (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)

General Chairs:
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Anastasia Braginsky (RedHat, Israel)
Eran Gilad (Regatta Data, Israel)
Amit Golander (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Publication Chair:
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Surbhi Palande (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Poster Chairs:
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Lior Shafir (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Sarel Cohen (Reichman University, Israel)

Publicity Chair:
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Diana Cohen (Technion, Israel)

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

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