Event:USENIX 2018

USENIX ATC '18 The 2018 USENIX Annual Technical Conference will take place July 11–13, 2018, in Boston, MA, USA Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association

Important Dates

• Paper titles and abstracts due: Tuesday, January 30, 2018
• Complete paper submissions due: Tuesday, February 6, 2018, 11:59 pm PST
• Notification to authors: Wednesday, April 18, 2018
• Final paper files due: Thursday, May 31, 2018

Co-located Events

• HotStorage '18: 10th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (July 9–10, 2018)
• HotCloud '18: 10th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (July 9, 2018)
• HotEdge '18: USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Edge Computing (July 10, 2018)

Conference Organizers

Program Co-Chairs

• Haryadi Gunawi, University of Chicago
• Benjamin Reed, Facebook

Program Committee

• Rachit Agarwal, Cornell University
• Irfan Ahmad, CachePhysics
• Deniz Altinbuken, Google
• Mahesh Balakrishnan, Yale University and Facebook
• Aruna Balasubramanian, Stony Brook University
• Theophilus Benson, Brown University
• John Bent, Cray Inc.
• Pramod Bhatotia, University of Edinburgh
• Alex Biryukov, University of Luxembourg
• Dhruba Borthakur, Rockset Inc.
• Nathan Bronson, Facebook
• Irina Calciu, VMware Research
• Michael Carbin, MIT
• Vijay Chidambaram, University of Texas at Austin
• David Chu, Google
• Paolo Costa, Microsoft Research
• Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern University
• Yufei Ding, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Pierre-Alain Fouque, University of Rennes 1
• Lakshmi Ganesh, Facebook
• Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Phillipa Gill, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Xiaohui (Helen) Gu, North Carolina State University
• Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Dean Hildebrand, Google
• Michio Honda, NEC Laboratories Europe
• Yu Hua, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
• H. Howie Huang, George Washington University
• Jian Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Ryan Huang, Johns Hopkins University
• David Irwin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Junchen Jiang, University of Chicago and Microsoft Research
• Flavio Junqueira, Confluent
• Asim Kadav, NEC Labs
• Konstantinos Karanasos, Microsoft
• Samira Khan, University of Virginia
• Taesoo Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Achmad Kistijantoro, Institut Teknologi Bandung
• Julia Lawall, Inria/LIP6
• I-Ting Angelina Lee, Washington University in St. Louis
• Tanakorn Leesatapornwongsa, Samsung Research America
• Cheng Li, VMware
• Jinyang Li, New York University
• Xing Lin, NetApp
• Xiaosong Ma, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HKBU, Qatar
• Dahlia Malkhi, VMware Research
• Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Changwoo Min, Virginia Tech
• Iqbal Mohomed, Samsung Research America
• Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Northeastern University
• Vijayan Prabhakaran, Amazon
• Christopher J. Rossbach, University of Texas at Austin and VMware Research
• Russell Sears, Pure Storage
• Siddhartha Sen, Microsoft Research
• Haiying Shen, University of Virginia
• Alex Shraer, Apple
• Keith A. Smith, NetApp
• Brent Stephens, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Christopher Stewart, Ohio State University
• Patrick Stuedi, IBM Research
• Swaminathan Sundararaman, ParallelM
• Lalith Suresh, VMware Research
• Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Pennsylvania State University
• Peter Varman, Rice University
• Shivaram Venkataraman, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Microsoft Research
• Andrew Wang, Cloudera
• Youjip Won, Hanyang University
• Gala Yadgar, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
• Antonia Zhai, University of Minnesota
• Irene Zhang, Microsoft Research
• Yiying Zhang, Purdue University
• Zheng (Eddy) Zhang, Rutgers University

Authors are invited to submit original and innovative papers to the Refereed Papers Track of the 2018 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. We seek high-quality submissions that further the knowledge and under­standing of modern computing systems with an emphasis on implementations and experimental results. We encourage papers that break new ground, present insightful results based on practical experience with computer systems, or are important, independent reproductions/refutations of the experimental results of prior work. USENIX ATC '18 has a broad scope, and specific areas of interest include (but are not limited to):

TOPCIS

• Architectural interaction
• Big data infrastructure
• Cloud and edge computing
• Distributed and parallel systems
• Embedded systems
• Energy/power management
• File and storage systems
• Internet of Things
• Machine learning and systems interactions
• Mobile and wireless
• Networking (WAN, LAN, and datacenter) and network services
• Operating systems
• Reliability, availability, and scalability
• Security, privacy, and trust
• System and network management and troubleshooting
• Usage studies and workload characterization
• Virtualization

USENIX ATC '18 is especially interested in papers broadly focusing on practical techniques for building better software systems: ideas or approaches that provide practical solutions to significant issues facing practitioners. This includes all aspects of system development: techniques for developing systems software; analyzing programs and finding bugs; making systems more efficient, secure, and reliable; and deploying systems and auditing their security.