Submission site is now open:
https://hotstorage23.hotcrp.com/
The 15th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage ʼ23),
will take place in person on Sunday, July 9th, 2023 in Boston, MA
a day before
17th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ’23)
and the
2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC ʼ23).
The workshop is sponsored by ACM, runs in cooperation with USENIX,
and its proceedings will appear in the ACM Digital Library.
Important Dates
- Paper submissions due:
Thursday, March 30, 2023, AoE
- Notification to authors: Friday, May 19, 2023, AoE
- Final papers due: Thursday, June 8, 2023, AoE
Venue
In 2023 the workshop will return to in-person format after a few years
of being virtual because of COVID-19 pandemic. It will be hosted at
Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. The location and date of
the workshop - just a day before
17th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ’23)
and the
2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC ʼ23) - were selected to promote submissions and attendance
of the workshop.
Overview
The HotStorage workshop provides a forum for cutting-edge storage research,
a place where academic researchers and industry practitioners can discuss
new opportunities and challenges in storage technology. Submissions should
propose new research directions, explore non-traditional approaches, or
report on noteworthy or counterintuitive learnings and experience in emerging
areas. Submissions will be judged on their originality, technical merit,
topical relevance, and the likelihood of leading to insightful discussions
that will influence future storage systems design and applications.
In keeping with the goals of the HotStorage workshop, the review process
will favor submissions that are forward-looking and open-ended. If you are
only a couple of months away from submitting to FAST, NSDI, EuroSys, VLDB,
OSDI, SOSP, ASPLOS, SoCC, etc. you are probably already past the sweet spot
for HotStorage. If you have a forward-looking or unorthodox idea or new research,
and some evidence or early working system to support your view, but still have
open questions, please consider bringing your work to HotStorage. The program
committee will also welcome position papers that solicit discussion on
controversial topics, introduce emerging methods and paradigms, or call
out for new research directions.
Topics of Interest
HotStorage '23 welcomes innovative submissions in the broad areas of storage,
data management, data applications, and cross-disciplinary topics that relate
to these. Some specific areas are listed below but the list is not exhaustive:
- Application- and workload-specific storage
- Archival and backup storage
- Caching, tiering, and replication
- Cloud storage
- Disaggregated and distributed storage
- Energy-efficient storage
- File systems
- Flash/SSD
- Key-value and NoSQL stores
- Memory-centric storage systems
- Mobile and edge device (sensors, home, and IoT, etc.) storage
- New storage hardware, DPUs, persistent memory
- Next generation storage (DNA, glass)
- Performance modeling and prediction for storage
- Programming models and compilers for storage
- Quality of service for storage
- Security and privacy of storage
- Storage reliability, erasure coding
- Storage systems for ML and applying ML to storage systems
What to Expect from the Workshop
HotStorage’23 will be a one-day in-person workshop with presentations of
each paper followed by a discussion. At least one author of each accepted
paper must attend the workshop to participate in discussions and answer
questions; if you have any questions or concerns about attending the
workshop as a presenting author, please contact the program co-chairs via
chairs23@hotstorage.org to
discuss. Presentation details and guidelines will be communicated to the
authors of the accepted papers.
Submission Instructions
Submissions must be no longer than five (5) two-column pages excluding
references and should be submitted electronically via the submission form at
https://hotstorage23.hotcrp.com/.
Indicating Paper Type. Authors should indicate one of two paper
types in both the submission and on HotCRP: Position
or Regular. Paper titles should be prefixed by their type in the
submission. For example, "Position: XYZ". Position titles should explicitly
state and argue for a position; the more interesting or forward-looking the
position, the better the paper is a match for HotStorage. Position papers
may also be used to put forward a vision for storage systems. Regular papers
might contain a new and interesting result that is at an early stage and not
yet ready for a conference submission.
Papers should be submitted electronically as a PDF. All text and figures
must fit within a 7"x9" text block, centered on the page, using two columns
with .33 inches of separation. The paper should be typeset using a 10-point
font (Times New Roman or similar) with a 12-point (single-spaced)
leading.
Please follow paper formatting instructions. The author kit,
which contains the Latex style and template, is available
here. Please ensure that your paper satisfies all the above requirements
for content and formatting before submission; if you have a question about
any of these issues, please email the program chairs
chairs23@hotstorage.org.
Additional instructions regarding camera-ready versions of accepted papers
will be sent directly to the corresponding authors and will appear here
online closer to the deadline.
Originality
Submissions to HotStorage '23 may not be under consideration for any other
venue. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues,
submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes
dishonesty or fraud. HotStorage, like other scientific and technical
conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action
against authors who have committed them. We are following the
ACM
Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions Policy for the policy we
are following. Questions? Contact the program chairs.
Anonymizing
The review process is double-blind. Authors must not be identified in the
submissions, either explicitly or by implication. When it is necessary to
cite your own work, cite it as if it were written by a third party. Do not
say "reference removed for blind review." Papers from industry may identify
the company or the product. For example, it is acceptable to talk about
Company X's Product Y (X and Y need not be blinded). Papers accompanied by
nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. Accepted submissions
will be treated as confidential prior to publication on the HotStorage '23
website; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as
confidential.
All papers will be available online to registered attendees before the
workshop. If your accepted paper should not be published prior to the event,
please notify the chairs. The papers will be available online to everyone
beginning on the first day of the workshop.
Declaring and Avoiding Conflicts
When registering a submission, all its co-authors must provide information
about conflicts with the HotStorage '23 program committee (PC) members. You
are conflicted with a member if: (1) you are currently employed at the same
institution, have been previously employed at the same institution within
the past two years, or are going to begin employment at the same institution;
(2) you have a past or present association as thesis advisor or advisee (no
time limit); (3) you have collaborated on a project, publication, grant
proposal, or editorship within the past two years; or (4) you have spouse
or first-degree relative relations.
Do not declare a conflict if you discussed your submission with a PC
member before the HotStorage '23 PC lists were publicized. Do not declare
a conflict merely because you wish to avoid a review from a specific
committee member; such unethical behavior might result in immediate
rejection. All conflicts will be reviewed to ensure the integrity of
the reviewing process.
Authors and others are prohibited from directly or indirectly communicating
with any HotStorage ’23 PC member about any potentially submitted paper. All
requests should be made exclusively to chairs. Violations of these guidelines
may seek remedies as stipulated by the ACM.
We look forward to receiving your submissions!
Vasily Tarasov (IBM Research) and Yiying Zhang (University of California, San Diego)
HotStorage '23 Program Chairs
chairs23@hotstorage.org
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