Operating Systems and Software Platforms

• Scope

This track aims to share research results and experiences in the Operating System and Software Platforms field with researchers and developers. In recent years, we have noticed tremendous growth in the demand for highly-efficient operating systems in various fields. At the same time, software platforms have also become more and more complex, and it imposes new challenging issues never faced before in this field. It is thus clear that nowadays the development and design of operating systems must rely, even more than in the recent past, on specific solutions both in the hardware and in the software components. Moreover, the need to timely tackle changes in the market pushes toward the employment of methodologies to shorten the development time and thrive the evolution of existing products. The solutions to new problems emerging in this setting call for a joint effort from academics and industry.

The designs of high-performance operating systems and software platforms must take into account a wide variety of constraints: Performance, code size, real-time performance, maintainability, energy efficiency, and scalability. This track provides a forum for the presentation of high-quality, original research covering all aspects of operating systems and software platforms design, analysis, implementation, evaluation, and case studies. Many research issues remain open from the limited battery to remote access control, interaction with external devices, assurance in quality of service, context-aware adaptation to the environment, interface modeling, security, and privacy problems that are obstacles to thriving the operating system and software platform technologies. This track focused on all of these research issues related to operating systems and software platforms.

The Major topics of this track include but are not limited to the following: 

• • • Operating systems

    • Virtualization technology

    • Networking, storage simulation techniques for operating systems

    • Distributed operating systems or parallel operating systems code

    • Fault tolerance and robustness for operating systems

    • Scheduling and discrete optimization of systems with timing constraints

    • Mobile platform and mobile applications

    • Embedded system application framework

    • Software platforms in cloud computing

    • Technologies for vehicular cloud computing

    • Software platforms for mobile and handheld devices

    • Location based services and device tracking

    • Mobile remote access infrastructure

    • Battery monitoring and energy saving algorithm

    • Information and services

    • Security of mobile platforms and devices

    • Privacy protection and security

• Contact

Track Chair 

Jinman Jung and, Joonhyouk Jang

Email : jmjung@inha.ac.kr

• Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit original papers in all areas of experimental computing and application development for the technical program via the Software Platforms track hosted by SAC 2026. Submissions fall into the following categories:

• • Original and unpublished research work

  • Reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, and business areas

  • Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains

  • Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems

    • The file format should be in PDF. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. All papers will be fully refereed and undergo a double blind review process by at least three referees. 

    • Prospective papers should be submitted to the track using the START submission system. Submission of the same paper to multiple tracks is not allowed. For more information please visit SAC 2026 Website

• SAC No-Show Policy

  • Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the papers and posters in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for all accepted papers, posters, and invited SRC submissions to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of scheduled papers, posters, and student research abstracts will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library.

• Initial Submission Policy

All submissions must initially be submitted as regular papers.

There is no separate submission track for poster papers.

Based on the outcome of the review process, some submissions—although technically sound—may not be accepted as regular papers due to overall acceptance rate constraints.

In such cases, the Track Chair(s) must obtain approval from the Poster Chair, in coordination with the Program Chairs, before recommending any paper for acceptance as a poster presentation.

• Minimum Length for Review Consideration

While there is no formal minimum page requirement, submissions of fewer than four (4) pages that do not demonstrate substantial contributions may be subject to desk rejection without external review.

This decision will be made at the discretion of the Track Chair(s), in consultation with the Program Chair(s).

• Final Manuscript Page Limits

   •  Regular Papers (accepted for publication): Up to eight (8) pages are included with standard registration. Authors may include up to two (2) additional pages, subject to the extra page charges specified on the SAC 2025 registration website. The maximum allowable length is ten (10) pages.

   •  Poster Papers (recommended for acceptance): Up to two (2) pages are included with standard registration. One (1) additional page may be included, subject to an extra page charge. The maximum allowable length is three (3) pages.

•  Policy Violation – Manipulative Submissions

Any attempt to manipulate the number of accepted papers by submitting or encouraging deliberately short papers with minimal content—solely to inflate acceptance counts—will be treated as a serious breach of SAC track management policy.

If such practices are identified, the corresponding track may be subject to immediate cancellation without prior notice.

•  Important update on ACMs new open access publishing model for 2026 ACM Conferences!

Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 1,800 institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 70-75%).

 Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial or discretionary waiver. To find out whether an APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating institutions in ACM Open and review the APC Waivers and Discounts Policy. Keep in mind that waivers are rare and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM.

Understanding that this change could present financial challenges, ACM has approved a temporary subsidy for 2026 to ease the transition and allow more time for institutions to join ACM Open. The subsidy will offer:

•    $250 APC for ACM/SIG members

•    $350 for non-members

This represents a 65% discount, funded directly by ACM. Authors are encouraged to help advocate for their institutions to join ACM Open during this transition period.

This temporary subsidized pricing will apply to all conferences scheduled for 2026. 

• Regular Paper Submission

• https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sac2026

• SRC Submission

• https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sacsrc2026

Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper: This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library."

• Technical Program Committee

-  Eojin Lee, Department of Computer Engineering, Inha University, South Korea

- Mauro Iacono, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy

- Po-Chun Huang, Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

- Adam Przybylek, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

-  Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

- Jems Pradhan, Microsoft, USA

- Yuan-Hao Chang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Jason Xue, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

- Alejandro Masrur, TU Chemnitz, Germany

- Qiang Duan, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

- Chang Choi, Chosun University, South Korea 

- Pankoo Kim, Chosun University, South Korea 

- Cong-cong Xing, Nicholls State University, USA

- Yanxiao Zhao, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, USA

- Guodong Wang, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, USA

- Zhong Zheng, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA

- Shen Yan, Beijing University of Posts and Telecom, China

- Yousheng Zhou, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecom., China

- Bo Gu, Waseda University, Japan

- Cheng Zhang, Waseda University, Japan

- Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University, USA

- Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University, USA

- Bonchel Gu, Samsung Electronics, South Korea

- Xuefeng Piao, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

- Jaeheung Lee, Kyonggi University, South Korea

- Junyoung Heo, Hansung University, Korea, South

- Taehyoung Kim, Korea Electronics Technology Institute, South Korea

- Miroslav Pajic, University of Pennsylvania, USA

- Yaxiong Zhao, Google Inc., USA

- Carlos Jesus Perez Del Pulgar Mancebo, University of Málaga

- Sheng-Wei Cheng, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

- Liang Zhao, Hitachi Research and Development Co. Ltd, China.

(More TPC members will be added)

• Important Dates

◾Paper Submission: Sep. 26, 2025

◾Paper Author Notification: Oct. 31, 2025

◾Camera-Ready Copies: Dec. 5, 2025

• Track Chairs

For any inquiries please contact the track organisers:

Jinman Jung, Ph.D 

Inha University, Korea

Email : jmjung@inha.ac.kr

Joonhyouk Jang, Ph.D 

Hannam University, Korea

Email : jhjang@hnu.kr