EuroSys 2026: Call for Papers

The European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys) is a premier international forum for presenting computer systems research. EuroSys 2026 seeks papers in all areas of computer systems research, including:

• Operating systems
• Distributed systems
• Cloud computing and datacenter systems
• File and storage systems
• Networked systems
• Language support and runtime systems
• Systems security and privacy
• Dependable systems
• Analysis, testing and verification of systems
• Database systems and data analytics frameworks
• Virtualization and virtualized systems
• Systems for machine learning/machine learning for systems
• Mobile and pervasive systems
• Parallelism, concurrency, and multicore systems
• Real-time, embedded, and cyber-physical systems
• Systems for emerging hardware

We encourage papers that span multiple topics and communities. Papers will be judged on novelty, significance, correctness, and clarity.

Separately from the preceding criteria for evaluating research papers, we are also inviting industry researchers to submit well-written, informative Industrial Experience papers relating their experience deploying, evolving, and/or operating their systems. When submitting an Industrial Experience paper, please select the Deployment/industrial experience keyword among the paper topics.

Regardless of paper type, rigorous evaluation is a hallmark of a good systems paper. We strongly recommend reading Gernot Heiser's write-up on Systems Benchmarking Crimes and ensuring you avoid these "crimes" in your evaluation.

Important Dates

EuroSys 2026 adopts a dual-deadline format. All deadlines are anywhere-on-earth (AoE) time.

Spring deadline

• Paper titles and abstracts due: Thursday, May 8, 2025 (AoE)
• Full paper submissions due: Thursday, May 15, 2025 (AoE)
• Reviews available: Wednesday, July 30, 2025 (AoE)
• Author responses due: Friday, August 1, 2025 (AoE)
• Notification to authors: Friday, August 22, 2025 (AoE)
• Camera-ready deadline: Friday, September 26, 2025 (AoE)

Fall deadline

• Paper titles and abstracts due: Thursday, September 18, 2025 (AoE)
• Full paper submissions due: Thursday, September 25, 2025 (AoE)
• Reviews available: Wednesday, January 7, 2026 (AoE)
• Author responses due: Friday, January 9, 2026 (AoE)
• Notification to authors: Friday, January 30, 2026 (AoE)
• Camera-ready deadline: Friday, March 6, 2026 (AoE)

Submission Instructions

• Spring Submission URL: https://eurosys26-spring.hotcrp.com/
• Fall Submission URL: https://eurosys26-fall.hotcrp.com/

Anonymity: Reviewing is double-blind, meaning that the authors' identities will be hidden from the reviewers and vice versa. Authors must make a good faith effort to anonymize their submissions, and they should not identify themselves either explicitly or by implication (e.g., through the references or acknowledgments).

Authors are permitted to post drafts of their submission on e.g. arXiv or as technical reports on their institution's website. However, the submitted version should have a substantially different title, and a different system/tool name (if it uses one) from the draft version.

Authors are welcome to include links to code repositories in their papers. However, authors should ensure that following the link and exploring the repository does not reveal any information about the names of the authors or their affiliations.

Submissions violating the detailed formatting and anonymization rules will not be considered for review. EuroSys applies ACM's policies for plagiarism, conflicts of interest, submission confidentiality, reviewer anonymity, and prior and concurrent paper submission.

Conflicts: When registering and submitting your paper, you will need to provide information about conflicts with PC members. Use the provided guidelines to determine conflicts.

Page limit and formatting: Submissions must have at most 12 pages of technical content, including all text, figures, tables, appendices, etc. Bibliographic references are not included in the 12-page limit.

Use A4 or US letter paper size, with all text and figures fitting inside a 178 x 229 mm (7 x 9 in) block centered on the page, using two columns separated by ≥8 mm (0.33") of whitespace. Use ≥10-point font (typeface Times Roman, Linux Libertine, etc.) on ≥12-point (single-spaced) leading for all text including figure and table captions. Graphs and figures should be readable when printed in grayscale, without magnification. All pages should be numbered. Authors are encouraged to hyperlink their references.

Papers that deviate significantly from the formatting instructions will be administratively rejected.

If you are submitting a revised paper because you received a revise-and-resubmit decision from the previous deadline, you should already have received instructions by email on how to prepare the revision submission. At submission time, please tick the appropriate box in HotCRP for the Fall submission, and also provide the required additional information (Spring submission paper #, supplemental material, and summary of revision).

Author responses will be strictly limited to 1000 words. Providing a response in a PDF file (in which the number of words is not easy to detect) or inlining documents such as revised figures into the response will result in the response being removed.

Open Access

Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs).

Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial or discretionary waiver.

The subsidy will offer:

• $250 APC for ACM/SIG members
• $350 for non-members

This temporary subsidized pricing will apply to all conferences scheduled for 2026.

Contact

For any further information, please contact the PC chairs:

• Roxana Geambasu (Columbia University)
• Peter Pietzuch (Imperial College London)

pc-chairs-2026@eurosys.org