2025 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization
October 12-14, 2025 Irvine, USA
Registration is now open! Early registration deadline: September 27, 2025.
Accepted papers are now available.
Student travel grants are now open for application (deadline: September 5, 2025 AoE).
Call for posters is now available: Short Paper, Regular WiP, and PhD Forum.
- Submission Deadline for Posters and Short Papers: September 1, 2025 (11:59pm AoE)
- Notification: September 12, 2025
Artifact evaluation instructions are now available.
Important Dates:
- Paper Submission Deadline:
June 21, 2025June 30, 2025 (11:59pm AoE) - Author Response Period:
July 24–31, 2025July 27 – August 3, 2025 (11:59:59 PM EDT) - Decision Notification:
August 12, 2025August 13, 2025 - Camera-ready Deadline:
September 1, 2025 (11:59pm AoE)September 5, 2025 (11:59pm AoE)
Artifact Evaluation Dates:
- AE Registration Deadline: August 18, 2025 (11:59pm AoE)
- AE Submission Deadline: August 22, 2025 (11:59pm AoE)
- AE Decision Notification: August 29, 2025
Poster Submission Dates:
- Submission Deadline for Posters and Short Papers: September 1, 2025 (11:59pm AoE)
- Notification: September 12, 2025
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This symposium is dedicated to the understanding and characterization of workloads that run on all types of computing systems. New applications and programming paradigms continue to emerge rapidly as the diversity and performance of computers increase. On one hand, improvements in computing technology are usually based on a solid understanding and analysis of existing workloads. On the other hand, computing workloads evolve and change with advances in microarchitecture, compilers, programming languages, and networking communication technologies. Whether they are smart phones and deeply embedded systems at the low end or massively parallel systems at the high end, the design of future computing machines can be significantly improved if we understand the characteristics of the workloads that are expected to run on them.
This symposium, sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and the Technical Committee on Computer Architecture, will focus on characterizing and understanding emerging applications in consumer, commercial and scientific computing.
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