The IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS) provides a forum for sharing advanced academic and industrial research focused on performance analysis in the design of computer systems and software. Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished work for possible presentation at the conference. ISPASS 2027 will be held in New York City on May 9–11, 2027.
Topics of interest
Papers are solicited in fields that include the following.
Methodology
- Performance and efficiency (power, area, and so on) evaluation methodologies
- Analytical modelling
- Statistical approaches
- Tracing and profiling tools
- Simulation techniques
- Hardware-accelerated simulation, for example on FPGAs
- Hardware performance counter architectures
- Power, temperature, variability and reliability models for computer systems
- Microbenchmark-based hardware analysis techniques
Foundations of performance and efficiency analysis
- Metrics
- Bottleneck identification and analysis
- Visualization
Analysis of commercial and experimental hardware
- Multi-threaded, multicore and many-core architectures
- Accelerators and graphics processing units
- Memory systems, including storage-class memory
- Embedded and mobile systems
- Enterprise systems and data centers
- HPC and supercomputers
- Computer networks
- Quantum computing
- Emerging technologies
Analysis of emerging workloads and software
- Software written in managed languages
- Virtualization and consolidation workloads
- Datacenter and internet-sector workloads
- Embedded, multimedia, games, telepresence
- Machine learning training and inference workloads
- Application and system code tuning and optimization
- Confirmations or refutations of important prior results
Tool and benchmark papers
In addition to research papers, ISPASS welcomes tool and benchmark paper submissions. The conference is an ideal forum to introduce new tools and benchmarks to the community. These papers will be judged primarily on their potential to enable and amplify future research, which should be clearly motivated in the paper. Authors of accepted tool and benchmark papers are expected to open-source their tool or benchmark before the conference.
There is no separate page limit for tool and benchmark papers.
In-person presentation
ISPASS 2027 is an in-person conference. Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference, in person, by one of its authors. Remote and pre-recorded presentations are not an alternative to attending. Before you submit, make sure that at least one author will be able to travel to New York in May 2027.
Visas. If the presenting author needs a visa to enter the United States, apply early; interview wait times can run to several months. Request an invitation letter promptly, and submit the visa application no later than two weeks after the acceptance notification. Keep proof of the application date: the chairs may ask for it. See Visa Information.
Exceptions. In exceptional circumstances that prevent the authors from travelling, the General and Program Chairs may allow a remote presentation. Examples include a visa that was applied for on time but was refused or not issued before the conference, or a travel ban that applies to the authors. Exceptions are decided case by case. Contact the Program Chair as soon as you know there is a problem, and be ready to show evidence, such as the date of your invitation-letter request and visa application. Requests made shortly before the conference without evidence of a timely visa application will not normally be granted.
Papers that are not presented. An accepted paper that is not presented — in person, or remotely under an exception approved in advance by the chairs — is withdrawn from the proceedings and does not appear in IEEE Xplore.
How to submit
Questions about the call may be sent to the General Chair, Brandon Reagen, or the Program Chair, Jason Lowe-Power.
Full formatting requirements, the page limit, the double-blind policy, the arXiv policy and the conflict-of-interest rules are on the Paper Submission Instructions page.
Extended poster abstracts have their own Call for Posters.