SOSP 2026 Call for Papers

The 32nd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) seeks innovative research related to the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment of computer systems software. The conference will be held from September 29th - October 2nd, 2026 in Clarion Congress Hotel Prague, Prague, Czechia.

Important Dates

Event	Date	Link
Deadline to register abstracts	March 26, 2026 (AoE)	HotCRP Submission Site
Submission deadline	April 1, 2026 (AoE)	HotCRP Submission Site
Reviews available for author response	TBD
Author response due	TBD
Author notification	July 3rd, 2026
Camera ready due	August 28, 2026	HotCRP Submission Site
Workshops	September 29, 2026	Workshops Site
Conference	September 30, 2026	Conference Site
Artifact evaluation deadlines	TBD	Sysartifact-website

Topics

SOSP takes a broad view of systems and solicits contributions from many fields of systems practice, including: operating systems, file and storage systems, distributed systems, cloud computing, mobile and edge systems, secure and reliable systems, systems aspects of big data and machine learning, embedded and real-time systems, virtualization, networking as it relates to operating systems, and management and troubleshooting of complex systems.

Submission Criteria

Submissions will be judged on novelty, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. A good paper will:

• Motivate a significant problem;
• Propose and implement an interesting, compelling solution;
• Demonstrate the practicality and benefits of the solution;
• Draw appropriate conclusions;
• Clearly describe the paper's contributions; and
• Clearly articulate the advances beyond previous work.

Artifact Evaluation

SOSP will continue the successful tradition of running an optional Artifact Evaluation process.

Authors have a few days after acceptance notifications to register their artifact, then a few more days to polish them for evaluation. The artifact evaluation process is cooperative.

Originality

Submissions should contain original, unpublished material. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism is not allowed.

Prior or concurrent workshop publication does not preclude publishing a related paper in SOSP. Prior or concurrent publication in non-peer-reviewed contexts, like arXiv.org, technical reports, talks, and social media posts, is explicitly permitted.

Resubmissions

Submitting a paper that had been previously submitted to and not accepted by another conference is permitted, although authors are expected to have improved the paper to address substantive issues raised in previous reviews.

Anonymity

SOSP will use double-blind reviewing. Please make a good faith attempt to anonymize your submission. Avoid identifying yourself or your institution explicitly or by implication.

Supplementary Material

Authors may optionally include supplementary material as a separate document. PC members are not required to read this optional supplementary material, so the submission must stand alone without it.

Formatting

Papers will be submitted electronically in PDF format via the web submission form(TBD).

Submissions may have at most 12 pages of technical content, including all text, figures, tables, 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 in) of whitespace. Use 10-point font (typeface Times Roman, Linux Libertine, etc.) on 12-point (single-spaced) leading.

For Latex, we recommend you use:

\documentclass[sigplan,10pt]{acmart}
\renewcommand\footnotetextcopyrightpermission[1]{}
...
\settopmatter{printfolios=true}
\maketitle
\pagestyle{plain}
...

Confidentiality

Reviewing will be done mostly by members of the program committee, with limited use of outside reviewers. Submissions will be treated as confidential.

Conflicts

To avoid conflicts of interest in the review process, when you register and submit your paper, we ask that you provide information about conflicts between any of the authors of your submission and PC members.

Author Response Period

SOSP will provide an opportunity for authors to respond to reviews prior to final consideration of the papers at the program committee meeting. Authors must limit their responses to (a) correcting factual errors in the reviews or (b) directly addressing questions posed by reviewers.

Accepted Papers

Papers selected by the program committee will be subject to revision and approval by a program committee member acting as a shepherd. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to supply electronic versions of their papers and encouraged to supply source code and raw data to help others replicate and understand their results, as part of an artifact evaluation process. To facilitate broad technical discussion, all accepted papers will be made available online in advance of the conference.

Submission Information

Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format via the web submission form (TBD).

Questions

Any questions about paper submissions can be emailed to program@sosp26.cit.tum.de.