ACM SIGOPS ATC 2026 Workshop
State Management in Modern Parallel and Distributed Systems
A half-day workshop for researchers and practitioners working on state access, scheduling, migration, reuse, and memory-aware system design.
- Date
- Nov 15, 2026
- Format
- Half day
- Location
- Hong Kong
Why StateSys
State has become the critical systems resource.
Many services now depend on shared or long-lived state for performance, efficiency, and service quality. StateSys 2026 brings together work on how systems organize, access, schedule, evolve, migrate, and reuse state across cloud runtimes, data systems, storage stacks, serverless platforms, stream processing, graph systems, and model serving.
Workshop Date
Sunday, November 15, 2026
Co-located With
ACM SIGOPS ATC 2026
Duration
Half-day workshop
Status
Submissions are open
Call for Papers
Original research, system experience, position papers, and work in progress.
We invite submissions on state management in systems software and infrastructure. Relevant work may address production systems, experimental prototypes, measurement studies, benchmarks, or position papers that clarify open problems.
Submissions are open. Submit papers through the
StateSys 2026 HotCRP site.
Papers must be submitted directly in the required two-column format. The 4-page limit
applies to the resulting two-column PDF and excludes references. Submission instructions
and important dates are listed below.
Submission details and dates Format, length, reviewing model, and schedule
| Format |
Two-column ACM acmart format using
\documentclass[sigplan,10pt]{acmart}, following the
ATC 2026 formatting style.
Submit the PDF in this two-column format; do not use the single-column
manuscript option. Download the official
ACM acmart package from CTAN.
|
|---|---|
| Length | Up to 4 pages in the resulting two-column PDF, excluding references. |
| Appendix | Optional appendices may be included but are not guaranteed to be reviewed. |
| Reviewing | Single-blind; author names and affiliations should appear on submissions. |
| Paper types | Research papers, position papers, system experience reports, negative results, and work in progress are welcome. |
| Paper submission deadline | September 21, 2026, 11:59 p.m. AoE |
|---|---|
| Author notification | October 12, 2026 |
| Camera-ready deadline | October 26, 2026 |
| Workshop | November 15, 2026 |
30-50
expected participants
4-6
paper presentations
1
keynote and panel
Topics
Topics of interest include the following areas.
State Access and Sharing
Access paths, shared state, locality, observability, concurrency, and cross-node access.
State Placement and Scheduling
Partitioning, placement, caching, tiering, and state-aware task and resource scheduling.
State Consistency and Coordination
Consistency models, synchronization, concurrency control, replication, and distributed coordination.
State Migration and Recovery
Migration, checkpointing, fault tolerance, elasticity, and online reconfiguration.
State Evolution and Reuse
Online updates, versioning, lifecycle management, and reuse across requests or tasks.
Stateful Systems and Applications
Data and storage systems, stream and graph processing, serverless platforms, and model serving.
Program
A half-day workshop with talks and discussion.
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Keynote
Invited talk on stateful systems.
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Paper Session
Selected research talks and experience reports.
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Panel
Moderated discussion on state management across systems domains.
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Closing Forum
Open discussion on benchmarks, interfaces, artifacts, and future directions.
Official Listing
Summary for the ATC workshop listing.
StateSys 2026
State Management in Modern Parallel and Distributed Systems
- Date
- November 15, 2026
- Venue
- Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, Sha Tin
- Contact
- shuhao_zhang@hust.edu.cn
Organizers
Organized by systems researchers across HUST, ECNU, and RUC.
Venue
Co-located with ACM SIGOPS ATC 2026 in Hong Kong.
StateSys 2026 is planned as a half-day workshop on November 15, 2026, before the main ATC conference. ATC 2026 runs November 15-18, 2026 at Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, Sha Tin.
ATC 2026
Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, Sha Tin
Conference website