ACM SIGOPS ATC 2026 Workshop
StateSys 2026
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.
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.
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.
Call for Papers
Original research, system experience, position papers, and work in progress.
The call for papers covered state management in systems software and infrastructure. Topics included production systems, experimental prototypes, measurement studies, benchmarks, or position papers that clarify open problems.
Submissions are closed.
The submission deadline was September 28, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. Anywhere on Earth (AoE). The original submission requirements and dates remain available below for reference.
Submission requirements & important dates Original CFP · for reference
| 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.
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| 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. |
| Publication | Non-archival; presentation and discussion only, with no proceedings or ACM Digital Library publication. |
| Paper types | Research papers, position papers, system experience reports, negative results, and work in progress are welcome. |
| Paper submission deadline | September 28, 2026, 11:59 p.m. AoE |
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| Author notification | October 12, 2026 |
| Workshop | November 15, 2026 |
30-50
expected participants
4-6
paper presentations
1
invited talk
Organizers
Organized by systems researchers across HUST, ECNU, and RUC.
