Call for Papers
Overview
The ACM SIGMETRICS conference solicits papers on the development and
application of state-of-the-art, broadly applicable analytic,
simulation and measurement-based performance evaluation
techniques. The conference provides a high-quality single-track
forum for presenting results and discussing ideas that further our
knowledge and understanding of the measurement, modeling, analysis,
and design of computing and networked systems. Of particular
interest is work that presents new performance evaluation methods or
that creatively applies previously developed methods to make
predictions about, or gain insights into key design trade-offs in a
variety of computing, networked, and cyber-physical systems ranging
from mobile devices and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications to
large-scale cloud computing systems and the smart grid.
Accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems (POMACS) and will be invited to present at the conference.
Topics
We solicit papers describing original and previously unpublished
research. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited
to, the following.
Quantitative measurement, design and evaluation studies of:
- Computer and communication networks, protocols and algorithms
- Wireless, mobile, ad-hoc and sensor networks, IoT applications
- Computer architectures, multi-core processors, memory systems and storage networks
- Operating systems, file systems and databases
- Data processing
- Virtualization, data centers, distributed and cloud computing
- Mobile and personal computing systems
- Energy-efficient computing systems
- Real-time and fault-tolerant systems
- Security and privacy of computing and networked systems
- Software systems and enterprise applications
- Social networks, multimedia systems, service-oriented architectures and Web services
- Large-scale operational systems
- Cyber-physical systems, including the smart grid
Methodologies, formalisms, metrics, solution techniques and algorithms for:
- Analytical modeling techniques and model validation
- Workload characterization and benchmarking
- Performance, scalability, power and reliability analysis
- Sustainability analysis and power management
- System measurement, performance monitoring and forecasting
- Anomaly detection, problem diagnosis and troubleshooting
- Capacity planning, resource allocation, run time management and scheduling
- Quality of service, total cost of ownership and pricing
- Experimental design, statistical analysis, simulation
- Game theory, network economics, and platform design
- Machine learning, big data, and signal processing
Submission guidelines
There are three submission opportunities over the course of the year.
- Summer (submission website)
- Registration of abstract: July 10, 2017
- Paper submission: July 17, 2017
- Author notification: September 22, 2017
- Fall (submission website)
- Registration of abstract: October 16, 2017
- Paper submission: October 23, 2017
- Author notification: December 15, 2017
- Winter (submission website)
- Registration of abstract: February 12, 2018
- Paper submission: February 19, 2018
- Author notification: April 27, 2018
Deadlines are hard and at 5:00pm Eastern Time (New York).
Papers may be submitted to any deadline and, upon acceptance, papers
will be scheduled for publication in the
Proceedings of the ACM on
Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems (POMACS) and
presentation at the ACM Sigmetrics 2018 conference. The journal
publication of accepted papers will appear in the issue of POMACS
immediately following acceptance; thus, before the conference for
papers that are accepted at the first two submission deadlines.
Submitted papers may not exceed 12 pages in the 2-column ACM
format. Figures and tables must be included within the 12 page
constraint, but references may extend beyond the 12 pages.
Additionally, authors may supplement their paper with an appendix.
The length of the appendix is not constrained; however the appendix
may only be used for the purpose of justifying the technical
correctness of their claims stated in the body of the paper, e.g.,
the technical details needed for a proof to be self-contained or
additional experimental validation.
Papers must be submitted electronically in printable pdf form via
the submission site posted on this page.
All submissions will be reviewed using a double-blind review
process. The identity of authors and referees will not be revealed
to each other. To ensure double-blind reviewing, authors names and
affiliations should not appear in the paper and bibliographic
references should be made in such a way as to preserve author
anonymity.
The Reviewing Process
The reviewing process for submissions is a hybrid of the traditional
conference and journal models in computer science. There are three
possible outcomes from the first round of submission:
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Accept with Shepherding: Every accepted paper will be
shepherded in order to insure that important suggestions from the
reviewers are incorporated into the final version of the paper.
This is similar to the “Minor Revision” outcome at a journal.
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One-shot Revision: Papers where the reviewers see promise,
but also issues that need to be addressed before publication, will
receive the option of a “One-shot revision”. This is similar to
the “Major Revision” outcome at a journal. In such cases, the
authors will receive a list of issues that are required to be
addressed before the paper can be accepted. Authors may then
submit a revision of the paper during one of the next two
submission deadlines (possibly Sigmetrics 2019 deadlines). The
revision should include an author response to the issues raised by
the reviewers as part of the appendix of the paper. If the paper
is not submitted within this time then any resubmission is treated
as a new paper. The outcome after resubmission of a “one-shot
revision” will either be “Accept with Shepherding”, "Accept as a
Poster", or “Reject”. If the revision is accepted as a poster or
rejected then any future revision of it may not be resubmitted to
any Sigmetrics deadline within 12-months following the initial
submission of the paper.
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Reject: If the paper is rejected it may not be resubmitted
to any Sigmetrics deadline within 12-months following the initial
submission of the paper.
Policies
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Papers must follow the standard ACM format. Templates for the
standard ACM format can
be found
at this link. Authors should use the "sigconf" proceedings
template. No changes to margins, spacing, or font sizes are
allowed from those specified by the style files. Papers violating
the formatting guidelines will be returned without review.
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SIGMETRICS is double-blind, meaning that authors should make a
good faith effort to anonymize papers. As an author, you should
not identify yourself in the paper either explicitly or by
implication (e.g., through the references or
acknowledgments). However, only non-destructive anonymization is
required. For example, system names may be left un-anonymized, if
the system name is important for a reviewer to be able to evaluate
the work. Specifically, please take the following steps when
preparing your submission:
- Remove authors' names and affiliations from the title page.
- Remove acknowledgment of identifying names and funding sources.
- Use care in naming your files. Source file names, e.g., Joe.Smith.dvi, are often embedded in the final output as readily accessible comments.
- Use care in referring to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer unable to grasp the context. Instead, a good solution is to reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other piece of related work.
- If you need to reference another submission at SIGMETRICS’18 on a related topic, reference it as follows: "A related paper describes the design and implementation of our compiler [Anonymous 2018]." with the corresponding citation: "[Anonymous 2018] Under submission. Details omitted for double-blind reviewing."
- If you cite anonymous work, you should also send the deanonymized reference(s) to the PC chairs in a separate email.
- Work that extends an author's previous workshop paper is welcome, but authors should (a) acknowledge their own previous workshop publications with an anonymous citation and (b) explain the differences between the SIGMETRICS submission and the prior workshop paper. A rule of thumb is that a prior workshop publication should be at most 6 pages long.
- Publication of a pre-submission version of the submission on your personal website, institutional archive, or the arxiv is allowed.
- Blinding is intended to not be a great burden. If blinding your paper seems too burdensome, please contact the program co-chairs and discuss your specific situation.
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It is ACM policy not to allow double submissions, where the same
paper is submitted to more than one conference/journal
concurrently. Any double submissions detected will be immediately
rejected from all conferences/journals involved. It is considered
a double submission for a paper that is being considered for a
one-shot revision to be submitted to another conference/journal
before being withdrawn from the Sigmetrics process. This applies
to all papers, including those papers whose authors plan to opt
out of POMACS publication to publish in another journal. Thus,
authors who wish to opt out of POMACS can only submit to a journal
after they have received a decision from Sigmetrics.
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Rejected papers may not be resubmitted within 12 months of the
initial submission of the work. Any resubmissions within this
period will be rejected without review.
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Submissions must present original research. However, previous
publication of preliminary work as an extended abstract at a
workshop is acceptable as long as the submission includes
substantial new material. A rule-of-thumb is that the workshop
paper should be no longer than 6 pages in length. See the note
above for information on how to ensure double-blind submission in
such cases.
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Authors have the option to “opt-out” of publication in the ACM
POMACS journal if they would like to publish their work in a
journal in field outside of computer science. If choosing this
option, authors must still present their work at the conference.
Additionally, a 1-2 page abstract of the work must be included in
the conference proceedings. This abstract is required to contain
a link to an online version of the full paper that will be
maintained for at least 2 years.
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Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be
considered. All submissions will be treated as confidential prior
to publication; rejected submissions will be permanently treated
as confidential.
Authors uncertain whether their submission meets these guidelines
should contact the Program Co-Chairs.
Ethical Considerations
Papers describing experiments with users or user data (e.g., network
traffic, passwords, social network information), should follow the
basic principles of ethical research, e.g., beneficence (maximizing
the benefits to an individual or to society while minimizing harm to
the individual), minimal risk (appropriateness of the risk versus
benefit ratio), voluntary consent, respect for privacy, and limited
deception. When appropriate, authors are encouraged to include a
subsection describing these issues. Authors may want to consult the
Menlo
Report for further information on ethical principles, or the
Allman/Paxson
IMC '07 paper for guidance on ethical data sharing.
Authors must, as part of the submission process, attest that their
work complies with all applicable ethical standards of their home
institution(s), including but not limited to privacy policies and
policies on experiments involving humans. Note that submitting
research for approval by one's institution's ethics review body is
necessary, but not sufficient—in cases where the PC has concerns
about the ethics of the work in a submission, the PC will have its
own discussion of the ethics of that work. The PC’s review process
may examine the ethical soundness of the paper just as it examines
the technical soundness.
Contact the SIGMETRICS'18 PC chairs
at sigmetrics18chairs@cs.wisc.edu
in case of questions or concerns.