ISMM 2025: Call for Papers

The 2025 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM 2025) is soliciting full-length submissions covering new work on all memory management related topics in both software and hardware (and their cooperation), as well as papers presenting confirmations or refutations of important prior results.

ISMM 2025 will be held in-person as part of PLDI'25, sharing the venue and activities at The Westin Josun Seoul, Seoul, South Korea, from June 17 to June 22, 2025.

Submission Types

In addition to regular papers, ISMM 2025 also invites submissions of the following kinds:

• Surveys and comparative analyses: that shed new light on previously published techniques.
• Practitioner reports: describing experience with memory management in production. These papers are not expected to provide novel research contributions but should not have been previously published.
• Intellectual abstracts: where researchers share designs, algorithms, or theory that may be interesting to the memory management community, but not yet evaluated.

Please indicate the submission type (regular paper, survey, practitioner report, or intellectual abstract) with a subtitle.

Areas of Interest

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Garbage collection algorithms and implementations
• Memory allocation and de-allocation
• Memory system design and analysis (both software and hardware)
• Hardware support for memory management
• Memory management for large-scale data-intensive systems
• Memory management at datacenter and cloud scales
• Formal analysis and verification of memory management algorithms
• Compiler analyses to aid memory management
• Tools to analyze memory usage and characteristics of programs
• Empirical analysis of memory intensive programs
• Formal analysis and verification of memory intensive programs
• Memory management for machine learning systems
• Programming and management of emerging or persistent memories
• Caches, memory controllers, memory hierarchies and their management
• Cache coherence and memory consistency
• Processing in memory (including processing near and using memory)
• Memory technology and architecture (SRAM, DRAM, flash, NVM, emerging technologies)
• Security and privacy of memory systems
• Robustness of memory systems
• Low-latency and low-energy memory systems

The symposium also welcomes industry practitioners presenting their recent practice and findings in memory management related to real-world deployments.

Important Dates (AoE / UTC-12h)

• Paper submission: Tuesday, March 18, 2025
• Author response period: Wednesday, April 23 - Friday, April 25, 2025
• Author notification: Saturday, May 3, 2025
• Camera-ready papers due: Thursday, May 15, 2025
• Conference day: Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Submission Guidelines

• All papers must be submitted online in Portable Document Format (PDF).
• Papers should be formatted according to the two-column ACM proceedings format.
• Each paper should have no more than 12 pages, excluding bibliography. References must list all authors (do not use et al.) and use a numeric citation style (e.g., [52]).
• Submissions should be in PDF format and printable on US Letter and A4 sized paper.
• Papers that exceed the length requirement or deviate from the expected format will be rejected.
• Ensure figures and tables are legible even after printing in gray-scale.
• Appendices should be submitted as supplementary material and must also be anonymized.

Formatting Template

Use the sigplan subformat of the acmart format. The first two lines of the LaTeX document should be:

\documentclass[sigplan,10pt,review,anonymous]{acmart}
\settopmatter{printfolios=true,printccs=false,printacmref=false}

Double-Blind Reviewing

ISMM uses double-blind reviewing. Author names and affiliations must be omitted. References to prior work by the authors should be in the third person. Supplementary material must also be anonymized.

For detailed guidelines and common scenarios, please refer to the FAQ on Double-Blind Reviewing: https://pldi23.sigplan.org/track/pldi-2023-pldi#FAQ-on-Double-Blind-Reviewing.

If you have any doubts, contact the Program Chairs.

Declaring Conflicts

Declare potential conflicts during submission, including adviser-advisee relationships, institutional conflicts, financial conflicts of interest, relationships with friends or relatives, and recent co-authorships (last 2 years).

Spurious conflicts are harmful and may lead to rejection. Consult the Program Chair if unsure.

Submission Link

https://ismm25.hotcrp.com