The European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys) is a premier international forum for presenting computer systems research. EuroSys 2026 seeks papers in all areas of computer systems research, including:

Operating systems
Distributed systems
Cloud computing and datacenter systems
File and storage systems
Networked systems
Language support and runtime systems
Systems security and privacy
Dependable systems
Analysis, testing and verification of systems
Database systems and data analytics frameworks
Virtualization and virtualized systems
Systems for machine learning/machine learning for systems
Mobile and pervasive systems
Parallelism, concurrency, and multicore systems
Real-time, embedded, and cyber-physical systems
Systems for emerging hardware

We encourage papers that span multiple topics and communities. Papers will be judged on novelty, significance, correctness, and clarity. The program committee seeks papers that address a significant problem with an interesting and compelling solution whose validity and practicality are clearly demonstrated through rigorous evaluation. A good paper will describe and justify the design and evaluation methodology in detail, draw appropriate conclusions based on evaluation results, honestly present and compare against related prior work, and acknowledge its own limitations. Every paper should clearly articulate the advances that it offers over prior work.

Separately from the preceding criteria for evaluating research papers, we are also inviting industry researchers to submit well-written, informative Industrial Experience papers relating their experience deploying, evolving, and/or operating their systems. These papers will also be judged based on novelty, significance, correctness, and clarity, but vis-a-vis the lessons obtained from these deployments and how valuable they are likely to be for the systems research community. Importantly, we expect the major lessons and claims to be supported through quantitative analyses and rigorous methodology.

Regardless of paper type, rigorous evaluation is a hallmark of a good systems paper. We strongly recommend reading Gernot Heiser’s write-up on Systems Benchmarking Crimes and ensuring you avoid these “crimes” in your evaluation.