How Are Award-winning Systems Research Artifacts Prepared (Episode 2)

Editor’s notes: As more and more systems research conferences start to adopt artifact evaluation (AE), we invite Manuel Rigger and Arpan Gujarati to share their practices and experience on preparing award-winning systems research artifacts — their artifacts received the Distinguished Artifact Awards at OSDI’20.  In the first edition, Manuel shared his practice of building and maintaining SQLancer, an automatic testing tool … Read more

People of Systems & Architecture: Karin Strauss & Luis Ceze

With most systems and architecture conferences taking the online route, we figured it’s a great time to get to know a few people in the systems/architecture research community. People of Systems & Architecture is a series of interviews conducted since last year, and continues in the same vein as the People of PL, People of POPL, and the People of … Read more

How Are Award-winning Systems Research Artifacts Prepared (Episode 1)

Editor’s notes: As more and more systems research conferences start to adopt artifact evaluation (AE), we invite Manuel Rigger and Arpan Gujarati to share their practices and experience on preparing award-winning systems research artifacts — their artifacts received the Distinguished Artifact Awards at OSDI’20.  In the first edition, Manuel Rigger from ETH Zurich will tell … Read more

Why We Should Include One-Shot Revision in our Review Process

Editor’s notes: The post originally appeared on the SIGARCH blog. We cross-post it because it is very relevant to the SIGOPS community. We hope the cross-posting can trigger discussions on improving the publication process of the SIGOPS community. Including one-shot revision in our peer review process could lead to lower overall reviewing load, better mental … Read more