Call for papers.
We invite submissions from practitioners, researchers, and engineers building computing and ML systems in production. The program committee prioritizes technical depth, demonstrated applicability, and honest reporting of results, including negative results.
Conference date: Monday, November 16, 2026. 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. Double-blind reviewed. Accepted full papers are published in the conference proceedings.
Short Paper
4–6 pagesWork-in-progress, preliminary results, or focused practice reports. Double-blind reviewed. Accepted short papers are published in proceedings.
Practitioner Report
4–8 pagesLessons-learned, deployment experiences, or comparative evaluations from industry or government programs. Single-blind reviewed.
Tool Demonstration
2–4 pages + demo slotHands-on demonstration of a tool, platform, or workflow. Demonstrations must be technically substantive - not sales presentations. Abstract reviewed by program committee.
Review policy
Full papers and short papers are reviewed double-blind. Authors must anonymize submissions - remove author names, institutional affiliations, and self-identifying references from the manuscript. Acknowledged prior work from the same authors may remain in the reference list but should be cited in third person.
Practitioner reports are reviewed single-blind. The program committee may consider author background and organizational context in evaluating applicability claims.
The program committee reserves the right to desk-reject submissions that are clearly out of scope, below the technical bar, or presented as marketing content rather than engineering work. Authors submitting primarily to advertise a product should consider the tool demonstration track instead.
Key dates
Abstract submission deadline
June 15, 2026
Abstract decisions
July 1, 2026
Full paper submission deadline
August 14, 2026
Notification of acceptance
September 21, 2026
Camera-ready deadline
October 16, 2026
Conference date
November 16, 2026
All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth). Dates subject to change only if the program committee publishes an explicit update.
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.
Official templates: ACM proceedings template for ACM `sigconf` two-column papers, and IEEE conference templates for IEEE two-column Word or LaTeX submissions.
Simultaneous submission to other venues is not permitted. Work under review elsewhere, or work that has been published in a substantially similar form, is not eligible. Authors unsure about overlap should contact the program committee 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 June 15, 2026. If you have a scoping question, email the program committee before preparing a full submission.
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