Call for papers
We invite submissions from practitioners, researchers, and engineers building computing and ML systems in production. The program committee will be established by August 2026 and will publish final review criteria before the submission deadline.
Conference date: Tuesday, February 16, 2027. All submission dates work backward from that date.
Scope
The SYLEN Annual Conference focuses on computing and ML systems in practice, not theory in isolation. We are particularly interested in work that closes the gap between research, prototypes, and systems that operate under real performance, reliability, security, cost, or organizational constraints.
ML Systems and Evaluation
Training and inference infrastructure, evaluation pipelines, model serving, observability, data quality, and operational lessons from production ML systems.
Distributed Systems and Infrastructure
Compute platforms, storage systems, schedulers, data platforms, networking, deployment workflows, and architecture tradeoffs at scale.
Developer Platforms and Tooling
Compilers, CI/CD systems, testing infrastructure, developer environments, internal platforms, and tooling that materially improves engineering throughput.
Reliability, Security, and Safety
Incident analysis, resilience, trusted ML, isolation, failure handling, abuse resistance, and practical methods for running dependable systems.
Embedded, Edge, and Robotics
Resource-constrained systems, robotics stacks, real-time software, sensor and actuator systems, autonomy infrastructure, and hardware-software integration.
Applied Case Studies
Technical case studies from real deployments across infrastructure, developer platforms, security, applied ML, robotics, and adjacent production systems.
Submission types
Full Paper
8–12 pagesOriginal research, novel methods, or substantial case studies. Intended for double-blind technical review after the program committee is established.
Short Paper
4–6 pagesWork-in-progress, preliminary results, or focused practice reports. Intended for double-blind technical review after the program committee is established.
Practitioner Report
4–8 pagesLessons-learned, deployment experiences, or comparative evaluations from industry or government programs. Intended for single-blind technical review.
Tool Demonstration
2–4 pages + demo slotHands-on demonstration of a tool, platform, or workflow. Demonstrations must be technically substantive - not sales presentations. Reviewed for technical fit after the program committee is established.
Review policy
The program committee will be established by August 2026. Until the committee roster and final process are published, this page describes the intended review model rather than a completed governance structure.
Full papers and short papers are intended for double-blind technical review. Authors should prepare anonymized submissions by removing author names, institutional affiliations, and self-identifying references from the manuscript. Prior work from the same authors may remain in the reference list but should be cited in third person.
Practitioner reports are intended for single-blind technical review. The final process may allow the program committee to consider author background and organizational context when evaluating applicability claims.
The final program committee may desk-reject submissions that are clearly out of scope, below the technical bar, or presented as marketing content rather than engineering work. The publication format for accepted papers will be published before full paper submissions close.
Key dates
Abstract submissions open
July 1, 2026
Program committee established
August 2026
Abstract submission deadline
September 15, 2026
Abstract decisions
October 1, 2026
Full paper submission deadline
November 14, 2026
Notification of acceptance
December 21, 2026
Camera-ready deadline
January 16, 2027
Conference date
February 16, 2027
All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth). Final review criteria, committee roles, and publication format will be published before full paper submissions close.
Formatting and submission
Submissions must be in PDF format. Authors are encouraged to use the ACM or IEEE conference paper template (two-column). Page counts include references. Overly long submissions outside the specified ranges may be returned for revision before review.
Authors may use a standard two-column ACM or IEEE conference paper format. IEEE templates are available through the IEEE conference templates.
Simultaneous submission to other venues that prohibit concurrent review is not permitted. Work that has been published in a substantially similar form is not eligible. Authors unsure about overlap should contact the conference team before submitting.
AI-generated content must be disclosed. Authors may use AI tools for editing and refinement but take full responsibility for the accuracy and integrity of the submitted work.
Submit or inquire
Submit an abstract or ask a scoping question
Submit an abstract by September 15, 2026. If you have a scoping question, email the conference team before preparing a full submission.
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