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Publish and Present Your Work at USENIX Conferences
The program committees of the following conferences are seeking submissions. CiteSeer ranks the USENIX Conference Proceedings among the the top ten highest-impact publication venues for computer science. By submitting a paper to a USENIX conference, you have the opportunity to present your work directly to your peers and to share it with a wide audience of readers of the Proceedings. Please see our Conference Submissions Policy.
Please note: All submission deadline times listed below are for the Pacific time zone. See the original CFP for submission deadlines that are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) or Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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SREcon25 Americas: SREcon25 AmericasMarch 25, 2025–March 27, 2025, Santa Clara, CA, United States
Submissions due: November 4, 2024 - 11:59 pmJoin us in Santa Clara, CA, as we gather to discuss a variety of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) topics. This year we look to explore Site Reliability Engineering in the age of disruption.
SRE operations exist in a world characterized by change and disruption. In recent years this has been in the form of both expected and unexpected fluctuations.
The introduction of new technologies always influences SRE work. The shift from bare metal to cloud infrastructure brought about a new world of tooling, principles, and practices to operations as organizations adapted. Other changes like microservice architectures, DevSecOps, and generative AI have all deeply influenced how we build and maintain large-scale software systems. Technologies like ChatGPT and Copilot have changed everyday work as engineers take advantage of the capabilities for analyzing and generating code and documentation and assisting with decision-making. New technologies also bring about changes in skill requirements for engineers, onboarding processes, and teams are resourced and managed.
While SRE is always changing to accommodate the increasing capabilities of automation, it is also adjusting to the disruptions that layoffs and hiring freezes present. Tradeoff decisions and efforts to optimize can disturb well established practices as organizations adjust to changing market and macro environmental conditions. Outside of everyday operations, software outages impact not only the engineers who build and maintain the software systems but the societies in which they operate. Nowadays, when software goes down, planes are grounded, doctors are unable to read charts, calls are dropped, and mortgages don’t get paid. Adaptability and real -time learning is essential to navigate the disruptions of a dynamic world.
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OSDI '25: 19th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and ImplementationJuly 7, 2025–July 9, 2025, Boston, MA, United States
Abstract registrations due: December 3, 2024 - 2:59 pmThe 19th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation seeks to present innovative, exciting research in computer systems. OSDI brings together professionals from academic and industrial backgrounds in a premier forum for discussing the design, implementation, and implications of systems software. OSDI emphasizes innovative research and quantified or insightful experiences in systems design and implementation.
OSDI takes a broad view of the systems area and solicits contributions from many fields of systems practice, including operating systems, file and storage systems, distributed systems, cloud computing, mobile systems, secure and reliable systems, systems aspects of big data, embedded systems, virtualization, networking as it relates to operating systems, and management and troubleshooting of complex systems. We also welcome work that explores the interface to related areas such as computer architecture, networking, programming languages, analytics, and databases. We encourage contributions with highly original ideas, new approaches, and groundbreaking results.
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USENIX ATC '25: 2025 USENIX Annual Technical ConferenceJuly 7, 2025–July 9, 2025, Boston, MA, United States
Abstract registrations due: January 7, 2025 - 3:59 pmThe 2025 USENIX Annual Technical Conference seeks original, high-quality submissions that improve and further the knowledge of computing systems, with an emphasis on implementations and experimental results. We are interested in systems of all scales, from small embedded mobile devices to data centers and clouds. The scope of USENIX ATC covers all practical aspects related to computer systems, including but not limited to: operating systems; runtime systems; parallel and distributed systems; storage; networking; security and privacy; virtualization; software-hardware interactions; performance evaluation and workload characterization; reliability, availability, and scalability; energy and power management; and bug-finding, tracing, analyzing, and troubleshooting.
We value submissions more highly if they are accompanied by clearly defined artifacts not previously available, including traces, original data, source code, or tools developed as part of the submitted work. We particularly encourage new ideas and approaches.
Submissions must contain original unpublished material that is not under review at any other forum, including journals, conferences, and workshops with proceedings. They will be judged on relevance, novelty, technical merit, correctness, and clarity. An idea or a design that the PC deems flawed can be grounds for rejection. USENIX ATC '25 will employ double-blind reviewing. Papers that are not properly anonymized may be rejected without review.