Call for Papers

8th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2017)

Mumbai, India


September 2-3, 2017


The Eighth SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems will be held in Mumbai, India.
Building on the success of its predecessors, APSys 2017 will continue to be a lively 
forum for systems researchers and practitioners across the world to meet, interact, 
and collaborate with their peers from the Asia/Pacific region.  APSys takes a broad 
view of systems and solicits papers from various fields of systems, including but 
not limited to:

Operating systems, their interaction with hardware architecture and programming languages
Virtualization and its novel applications
File and storage systems
Networked systems including both wired and wireless networks
Mobile, wireless, embedded and pervasive systems
Cloud computing and data center management
Edge computing and peer to peer systems
Systems for Big Data Analytics
Distributed systems, theory and practice
Internet of Things
System energy characterization and optimization
Testing and verification of computer systems
Measurement, monitoring, and modeling
Reliability, scalability, and fault tolerance
Security and privacy
Systems for machine learning and AI
Heterogeneous systems, GPU computing, and novel hardware accelerators
Experience with deployed systems
Application of interesting research ideas to computer systems, such as machine learning 
and stochastic modeling.

The workshop favors works with an experimental flavor such as measurement and prototyping.

Submission Guidelines
Submissions should be six or fewer pages in length excluding references, formatted in standard 
ACM two-column conference style with 10-pt font size. Reviewing will be double-blind : no author 
or affiliation information should appear in the submission. The authors should additionally follow 
the best practice in order not to disclose their identities implicitly. A submission may present 
preliminary results, propose a new research direction, provide insightful retrospective, or offer 
a provocative viewpoint on an important systems topic. Papers will be selected based on their 
likelihood of generating insightful technical discussions at the workshop and influencing future 
systems research. Relevant attributes include originality, technical merit, clarity, and technical 
relevance. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the workshop, which will be published 
in the ACM Digital Library. Consistent with standard scholarly practice, the authors should not 
have substantially similar work in review anywhere else.

Submissions should be made online at the APSys 2017 submission site.


Important Dates
Abstract due: June 2, 2017, 23:59 AOE (Anywhere on Earth)
Submission due: June 9. 2017 23.59 AOE
Notification to authors: July 12, 2017
Shepherd deadline: July 24, 2017
Camera-ready due: July 31, 2017
Workshop: Sept 2-3, 2017