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ISMM is a premier forum for research specialized in memory management. This year we have accepted 12 papers out of 22 submissions from both academia and industry and from countries in Asia, Europe, Australia, and North America. Every accepted paper is assigned a shepherd who helps the authors improve the final version of their paper. Please browse the entire program here.

Accepted Papers

Title
A bounded memory allocator for software-defined global address spaces
ISMM
Block-Free Concurrent GC: Stack Scanning and Copying
ISMM
CBufs: Efficient, System-Wide Memory Management and Sharing
ISMM
Characterizing Emerging Heterogeneous Memory
ISMM
Fast Non-intrusive Memory Reclamation for Highly-Concurrent Data Structures
ISMM
Hardware Support for Protective and Collaborative Cache Sharing
ISMM
Keynote talk: Rethinking Memory System Design
ISMM
Media Attached
Liveness-Based Garbage Collection for Lazy Languages
ISMM
Opening Remarks
ISMM
Persistence Programming Models for Non-Volatile Memory
ISMM
Prescient Memory: Exposing Weak Memory Model Behavior by Looking into the Future
ISMM
Rethinking a Heap Hierarchy as a Cache Hierarchy: A Higher-Order Theory of Memory Demand (HOTM)
ISMM
Rust as a Language for High Performance GC Implementation
ISMM
Understanding and Improving JVM GC Work Stealing at the Data Center Scale
ISMM

Call for Papers

ISMM solicits full-length submissions covering new work on memory management topics, as well as papers presenting confirmations or refutations of important prior results. Surveys and comparative analyses that shed new light on previously published techniques are also welcome.

All papers must be submitted on-line in Portable Document Format (PDF). The submission web site is: https://ismm16.hotcrp.com/

Submissions will be read by the program committee and designated reviewers, and judged on scientific merit, innovation, readability, and relevance. Papers previously published or already being reviewed by another conference are not eligible; if a closely related paper has been submitted elsewhere, the authors must notify the program chair (see the SIGPLAN republication policy). Submissions must be in English, formatted to print on US Letter (8.5 x 11 inches) paper, and no more than 10 pages (not including bibliography, excluding well marked appendices) in standard ACM SIGPLAN conference format: two columns, nine-point font (or larger) on a ten-point baseline (or larger), with columns 20pc (3.33in) wide and 54pc (9in) tall, and a column gutter of 2pc (0.33in). Detailed formatting guidelines are available at the URL below, along with formatting templates or style files for LaTeX. Papers should be self-contained and auxiliary material will not be accepted. Papers that violate these guidelines will be rejected by the program chair. Program committee members are not required to read appendices, and so a paper should be intelligible without them. All accepted papers will appear in the published proceedings. http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm

Double-Blind Reviewing

The ISMM paper reviewing process uses double-blind reviewing and provides an opportunity for rebuttal. In double-blind reviewing, the authors are anonymous to the reviewers, just as reviewers are anonymous to the authors. Authors are required to make reasonable efforts not to disclose their identities to reviewers. For example, you should not give your names nor mention your institution, research group, project name, etc. Where necessary for flow, you could say “the XYZ project” and add in a footnote that the name is withheld. Discuss your own prior work in the third person, as you would other related work. Avoid making paper drafts too public, to reduce the possibility of inadvertently revealing your identities to reviewers. Reviewers, for their part, will be honor-bound not to try to discover authors’ identities, which will be known only by the program chair until a suitable point in the program committee’s deliberations. We are using this process because research indicates that author anonymity reduces bias in reviewing.

External Review Committee

ISMM 2016 follows the practice introduced in earlier ISMM’s of using a separate External Review Committee (ERC) as part of the reviewing process. The ERC complements the Program Committee (PC) by providing expert reviews. The same reviewing standards apply to the ERC as for the PC. However, ERC members review only around four papers each, do not participate in the PC meeting, but will review and determine the fate of PC submissions. The purpose of the ERC is to increase the breadth and depth of the reviewer pool, thus increasing the likelihood of conflict-free expert reviews. This approach should be more practical with double-blind reviewing than ad hoc expert review assignments (as used by a number of conferences). The formal selection process, transparency of its constituency, and the fact that each reviewer will review multiple papers should increase the quality and accountability of reviews as compared to traditional ad hoc expert review assignments. Rebuttal The rebuttal process will occur in March 2016 (see Important Dates), and will give the authors opportunity to respond succinctly to factual errors in reviews, before the program committee meets to make its decisions. The committee may, but need not, respond to rebuttals or revise reviews at or after the committee meeting.

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08:50 - 10:10
KeynoteISMM at Sierra Madre South
Chair(s): Zheng Zhang Rutgers University
08:50
10m
Talk
Opening Remarks
ISMM
09:00
70m
Talk
Keynote talk: Rethinking Memory System Design
ISMM
Onur Mutlu ETH Zurich
Media Attached
10:30 - 12:10
Concurrent Memory ManagementISMM at Sierra Madre South
Chair(s): Ben L. Titzer Google
10:30
25m
Talk
Block-Free Concurrent GC: Stack Scanning and Copying
ISMM
Erik Österlund Linnaeus University, Sweden, Welf Löwe Linnaeus University
10:55
25m
Talk
Characterizing Emerging Heterogeneous Memory
ISMM
Du Shen College of William and Mary, Xu Liu College of William and Mary, Felix Lin Purdue University
11:20
25m
Talk
Hardware Support for Protective and Collaborative Cache Sharing
ISMM
Raj Parihar University of Rochester, Jacob Brock University of Rochester, Chen Ding University of Rochester, Michael Huang University of Rochester
11:45
25m
Talk
Fast Non-intrusive Memory Reclamation for Highly-Concurrent Data Structures
ISMM
Dave Dice Oracle Labs, Maurice Herlihy Brown University, Alex Kogan Oracle Labs
13:30 - 15:10
Non-traditional and Datacenter Scale Memory SystemISMM at Sierra Madre South
Chair(s): Steve Heller Two Sigma
13:30
25m
Talk
Understanding and Improving JVM GC Work Stealing at the Data Center Scale
ISMM
13:55
25m
Talk
Persistence Programming Models for Non-Volatile Memory
ISMM
14:20
25m
Talk
CBufs: Efficient, System-Wide Memory Management and Sharing
ISMM
Yuxin Ren he George washington university, Gabriel Parmer The George Washington University, A: Gedare Bloom Howard University, Teo Georgiev The George Washington University
14:45
25m
Talk
A bounded memory allocator for software-defined global address spaces
ISMM
Fabrice Rastello INRIA, France, Albert Cohen INRIA, Francois Gindraud Joseph Fourier University, France;, Francois Broquedis Universite Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1
15:30 - 17:10
Modeling, Characterization, and ToolsISMM at Sierra Madre South
Chair(s): Hans-J. Boehm Google
15:30
25m
Talk
Rust as a Language for High Performance GC Implementation
ISMM
Yi Lin Australian National University, Steve Blackburn Australian National University , Tony Hosking Australian National University, Data61, and Purdue University, Michael Norrish NICTA
15:55
25m
Talk
Prescient Memory: Exposing Weak Memory Model Behavior by Looking into the Future
ISMM
Man Cao Ohio State University, Jake Roemer Ohio State University, Aritra Sengupta Ohio State University, Michael D. Bond Ohio State University
16:20
25m
Talk
Rethinking a Heap Hierarchy as a Cache Hierarchy: A Higher-Order Theory of Memory Demand (HOTM)
ISMM
Pengcheng Li , Hao Luo University of Rochester, Chen Ding University of Rochester
16:45
25m
Talk
Liveness-Based Garbage Collection for Lazy Languages
ISMM
Prasanna Kumar IIT Bombay, Amitabha Sanyal IIT Bombay, Amey Karkare IIT Kanpur