Please Note: The ASPLOS 2020 meeting has been canceled due to due to COVID-19. Please read the latest details here.

Call for Papers

Main conference:

25th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems

Abstract submissions August 9, 2019 (4:59:59pm PDT)
Full paper submissions August 16, 2019 (4:59:59pm PDT)
Author response October 28-November 1, 2019
Author Notification November 20, 2019
Artifact submission (optional) December 4, 2019
Final copy deadline January 20, 2020

ASPLOS is the premier forum for interdisciplinary systems research, intersecting computer architecture, hardware and emerging technologies, programming languages and compilers, operating systems, and networking. The 25th ASPLOS will be held in Lausanne, Switzerland, a beautiful town on the shores of Lake Geneva, conveniently located in the center of Europe, and at EPFL.

Like its predecessors, ASPLOS 2020 invites papers on ground-breaking research at the intersection of the ASPLOS disciplines: architecture, programming languages, operating systems, and related areas. Non-traditional topics are especially encouraged. The importance of cross-cutting research continues to increase as we grapple with the end of Dennard scaling, the explosion of big data, the scale of computing from ultra-low power wearables to exascale systems, the need for sustainability, and the growth of human-centered applications. ASPLOS embraces systems research that addresses new problems in innovative ways. Research may target diverse goals such as performance, energy and thermal efficiency, resiliency, security, privacy, sustainability, applicability to future technologies, applications, and environments. The review process will be sensitive to the challenges of multidisciplinary work and emerging areas.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

- - Existing and emerging platforms at all scales, from embedded to cloud
  - Traditional and extreme environments, from implantable to space
  - Internet services, cloud computing, and datacenters
  - Multicore architectures and systems
  - Heterogeneous architectures and accelerators
  - Systems for enabling parallelism at an extreme scale
  - Programming models, languages, and compilation for all platforms
  - Managing, storing, and computing big data
  - Virtualization and virtualized systems
  - Memory/storage technologies and architectures
  - Power, energy, and thermal management
  - Security, reliability, availability, and sustainability
  - Verification and testing, and their impact on design and security
  - Systems and hardware support for machine learning
  - Non-traditional computing systems, including emerging devices

Call for Research Artifacts

Submissions to ASPLOS often comprise far more than the paper– they include supporting materials such as code, data, models, experimental workflows or results that are crucial to evaluating the conclusions drawn in the paper. To promote the reproducibility of experimental results and to encourage authors to provide useful artifacts that help the community quickly validate and compare alternative approaches, ASPLOS 2020 includes an artifact evaluation process. We invite authors of accepted ASPLOS 2020 papers to submit their supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation process based on the ACM Artifact Review and Badging policy, a standard for systems conferences including CGO, PLDI, PPoPP and SuperComputing.

The Artifact Evaluation process is run by a separate committee whose task is to assess how the artifacts support the work described in the papers. This submission is voluntary and will not influence the final decision regarding the papers. Please note that the artifact submission deadline is shortly after notification of the paper’s acceptance– authors should prepare in advance to ensure time for artifact assembly and documentation. Camera-ready papers that successfully go through the Artifact Evaluation process will include an Artifact Appendix and will receive a set of ACM badges printed on the camera-ready papers. Additional information is available on the ASPLOS 2020 AE web page.

Important Dates:

Artifact submission: December 4, 2019
Artifact decision: January 15, 2020
Reproducibility discussion: TBA

Important Links:

Call for Workshop Proposals

Workshop proposals are solicited for ASPLOS 2020 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Workshops will be held on Monday, March 16, 2020 and Tuesday, March 17, 2020.

Proposals in the interplay between programming languages, computer architecture, operating systems, and user interfaces to deal with challenges — such as, power, performance, resilience, and programmer productivity — in emerging areas — such as datacenter/cloud computing, systems based on non-volatile memory technologies, large-scale data analysis, smart infrastructure, and extreme scale computing — are encouraged.

Please include the following in your proposal:

Title of the workshop
Organizers and their affiliations
Sample call for papers
Duration – Half-Day or Full Day
Preferred Day – Monday or Tuesday
If the workshop was held previously, please include the location (conference), date, and the number of attendees.

Proposals should be submitted via e-mail to Michael Carbin (mcarbin@csail.mit.edu) with the subject “ASPLOS2020 Workshop Proposal”. Submissions will be acknowledged via e-mail.

Feel free to contact Michael with questions about the suitability of a workshop for ASPLOS or for any other related matters.

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: Monday, November 4, 2019*
Notification: Monday, November 18, 2019

Call for Tutorial Proposals

Tutorial proposals are solicited for ASPLOS 2020 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Tutorials will be held on Monday, March 16, 2020 and Tuesday, March 17, 2020.

Proposals for both half- and full-day tutorials are solicited on any topic that is relevant to the ASPLOS audience. In previous years, tutorials seeking to achieve either of the following goals have been particularly successful:

Describe an important piece of research infrastructure.
Educate the community on an emerging topic.

Please include the following in your proposal:

Title
Presenter(s) and contact information
Proposed duration– Half-Day or Full Day
1-2 paragraph abstract suitable for tutorial publicity
1 paragraph biography per presenter suitable for tutorial publicity
1-3 page description (for evaluation). This should include:
- Tutorial scope and objectives
- Topics to be covered
- Target audience
- If the tutorial has been held previously, the location (i.e., conference), date, and number of attendees.

Proposals should be submitted via e-mail to Michael Carbin (mcarbin@csail.mit.edu) with the subject “ASPLOS2020 Tutorial Proposal”. Submissions will be acknowledged via e-mail.

Feel free to contact Michael with questions about the suitability of a tutorial for ASPLOS or for any other related matters.

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: Monday, November 4, 2019*
Notification: Monday, November 18, 2019

*Correction: Previously listed as Monday, November 1, 2019

Call for WACI

The Wild and Crazy Ideas (WACI) session is a time-honored tradition at ASPLOS that frees researchers from the shackles of realism, removes the blinders of short-term thinking, and opens the scientific mind to uncharted frontiers. Since 1998, WACI has provided a counterweight to the conservative impulses wrought by the traditional peer review path.

This is your moment to propose something huge—something no one else is talking about. Craft a talk proposal that:

Falls within the ASPLOS purview: Your idea should combine elements of at least two of architecture, programming languages, and operating systems.
Is not (yet) publishable research: Propose something neither you nor anyone else in the community is actually working on—for example, because it seems only barely feasible, because it requires thinking far into the future, because it strays into intellectual domains too far from core ASPLOS expertise, or because it directly contradicts the conventional wisdom.
Might change the world: Your idea must be enormous. Unshackle your ambition.

Ideas may also be funny—we encourage it!—but we think ideas are funniest when they build on an element of real, world-changing, convention-challenging research thought.

Submit a one-paragraph abstract of your idea by January 31 via the submission form [https://forms.gle/oCn7YMRjDyNdTKz28 ]. If the WACI chairs select your abstract for a talk, here’s what you can expect:

You write a longer version of your idea (limit: two pages) for publication on the WACI website.
The WACI chairs work with you to craft an excellent, compact, entertaining talk for the WACI session in Lausanne.

Contact the WACI chairs, Adrian Sampson and Christina Delimitrou, with any questions.