Welcome to the 2022 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM). ISMM is a premier forum for research in memory management and solicits papers from areas including but not limited to:

  • Memory system design and analysis
  • Hardware support for memory management
  • Memory management for large-scale data-intensive systems
  • Novel memory architectures
  • Memory management at datacenter and cloud scales
  • Garbage Collection algorithms and implementations
  • Formal analysis and verification of memory management algorithms
  • Compiler analyses to aid memory management
  • Tools to analyze memory usage of programs
  • Memory allocation and de-allocation
  • Empirical analysis of memory intensive programs
  • Formal analysis and verification of memory intensive programs
  • Memory management for machine learning systems
  • Programming and management of emerging or persistent memories

See the Call for Papers for more details.

Virtual Participation

If you cannot join us in-person, you can register to participate in our online component with live streamed talks + Q&A and social interaction and events on Gather.town.

The live-streams for recorded events will be replayed 12 hours later at the corresponding gather.town room.

Keynote

Dates
Plenary
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Tue 14 Jun

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10:00 - 12:00
Welcome and Session AISMM 2022 at Rousseau East +12h
Chair(s): Martin Maas Google Research
10:15
15m
Day opening
Welcome from the Chairs and Conference Reportvirtual
ISMM 2022
David Chisnall Microsoft Research, Michael Lippautz Google
10:30
60m
Panel
Industry panel: Memory management priorities for the next few yearsvirtual
ISMM 2022
11:30
30m
Talk
Reconsidering OS Memory Optimizations in the Presence of Disaggregated Memoryvirtual
ISMM 2022
Shai Bergman Technion, Priyank Faldu ARM, Boris Grot University of Edinburgh, UK, Lluís Vilanova Imperial College London, Mark Silberstein Technion
12:00 - 14:00
12:00
2h
Lunch
Lunchsocial
ISMM 2022

14:00 - 16:00
Session BISMM 2022 at Rousseau East +12h
Chair(s): Chen Ding University of Rochester
14:00
30m
Talk
MemSweeper: Virtualizing Cluster Memory Management for High Memory Utilization and Isolationvirtual
ISMM 2022
AmirHossein Seyri University of Illinois at Chicago, Abhisek Pan Microsoft, Balajee Vamanan University of Illinois at Chicago
14:30
30m
Talk
Replication-based Object Persistence by Reachabilityvirtual
ISMM 2022
Kotaro Matsumoto Kochi University of Technology, Tomoharu Ugawa University of Tokyo, Hideya Iwasaki University of Electro-Communications, Japan
15:00
30m
Talk
Concurrent and Parallel Garbage Collection for Lightweight Threads on Multicore Processorsvirtual
ISMM 2022
Katsuhiro Ueno Niigata University, Atsushi Ohori Tohoku University, Japan
15:30
30m
Break
Social breaksocial
ISMM 2022

16:00 - 17:30
Keynote and ClosingISMM 2022 at Rousseau East +12h
Chair(s): Michael Lippautz Google
16:00
60m
Keynote
We Live in Interesting Timesvirtual
ISMM 2022
Steve Blackburn Google and Australian National University
17:00
15m
Day closing
Closing Remarksvirtual
ISMM 2022
David Chisnall Microsoft Research, Michael Lippautz Google

Wed 15 Jun

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00:00 - 02:00
00:00
2h
Lunch
Lunchsocial
ISMM 2022

02:00 - 04:00
02:00
30m
Talk
MemSweeper: Virtualizing Cluster Memory Management for High Memory Utilization and Isolationvirtual
ISMM 2022
AmirHossein Seyri University of Illinois at Chicago, Abhisek Pan Microsoft, Balajee Vamanan University of Illinois at Chicago
02:30
30m
Talk
Replication-based Object Persistence by Reachabilityvirtual
ISMM 2022
Kotaro Matsumoto Kochi University of Technology, Tomoharu Ugawa University of Tokyo, Hideya Iwasaki University of Electro-Communications, Japan
03:00
30m
Talk
Concurrent and Parallel Garbage Collection for Lightweight Threads on Multicore Processorsvirtual
ISMM 2022
Katsuhiro Ueno Niigata University, Atsushi Ohori Tohoku University, Japan
03:30
30m
Break
Social breaksocial
ISMM 2022

04:00 - 05:30
Keynote and ClosingISMM 2022 at Rousseau East
04:00
60m
Keynote
We Live in Interesting Timesvirtual
ISMM 2022
Steve Blackburn Google and Australian National University
05:00
15m
Day closing
Closing Remarksvirtual
ISMM 2022
David Chisnall Microsoft Research, Michael Lippautz Google
09:00 - 10:10
Keynote: Emery BergerPLDI at Kon-Tiki +12h
Chair(s): Işıl Dillig University of Texas at Austin
09:00
10m
Other
Welcome to PLDI 2022
PLDI
Işıl Dillig University of Texas at Austin, Ranjit Jhala University of California at San Diego; Amazon Web Services
09:10
60m
Keynote
Getting Your Research Adopted
PLDI
Emery D. Berger University of Massachusetts Amherst
Pre-print Media Attached
18:00 - 19:00
PLDI 2022 ReceptionPLDI at Beach North
18:00
60m
Social Event
PLDI 2022 Reception (sponsored by WhatsApp by Meta)social
PLDI

21:00 - 22:10
Keynote: Emery BergerPLDI at Kon-Tiki
21:00
10m
Other
Welcome to PLDI 2022
PLDI
Işıl Dillig University of Texas at Austin, Ranjit Jhala University of California at San Diego; Amazon Web Services
21:10
60m
Keynote
Getting Your Research Adopted
PLDI
Emery D. Berger University of Massachusetts Amherst
Pre-print Media Attached

Call for Papers

The ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM 2022) is soliciting full-length submissions covering new work on all memory management related 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. ISMM 2022 will be colocated with PLDI 2022.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Garbage collection algorithms and implementations
  • Memory allocation and de-allocation
  • Memory system design and analysis
  • Hardware support for memory management
  • Memory management for large-scale data-intensive systems
  • Novel memory architectures
  • Memory management at datacenter and cloud scales
  • Formal analysis and verification of memory management algorithms
  • Compiler analyses to aid memory management
  • Tools to analyze memory usage of programs
  • Empirical analysis of memory intensive programs
  • Formal analysis and verification of memory intensive programs
  • Memory management for machine learning systems
  • Programming and management of emerging or persistent memories

All papers must be submitted on-line in Portable Document Format (PDF). The symposium welcomes industry practitioners presenting their recent practice and findings in memory management related to real-world deployments.

Formatting Instructions

The formatting instructions will follow the PLDI 2022 guidelines. Information about the required SIGPLAN template can be found here. Submissions must use a 10pt font and be at most 12 pages in length, excluding bibliography. Papers that exceed the length requirement or deviate from the expected format will be rejected.

Double-Blind Reviewing

ISMM uses double-blind reviewing. This means that author names and affiliations must be omitted from the submission. Additionally, if the submission refers to prior work done by the authors, that reference should be made in third person. These are firm submission requirements. Any supplementary material must also be anonymized.

PLDI’s FAQ on Double-Blind Reviewing clarifies the policy for the most common scenarios. But there are many gray areas and trade-offs. If you have any doubts about how to interpret the double blind rules, please contact the Program Chair. Overestimate the need to contact the Program Chair for complex cases that are not fully covered by the FAQ.

Declaring Conflicts

When submitting the paper, you will need to declare potential conflicts. Conflicts should be declared between an adviser and an advisee (e.g., Ph.D., post-doc). Other conflicts include institutional conflicts, financial conflicts of interest, friends or relatives, or any recent co-authors on papers and proposals (last 2 years).

Please do not declare spurious conflicts: such incorrect conflicts are especially harmful if the aim is to exclude potential reviewers, so spurious conflicts can be grounds for rejection. If you are unsure about a conflict, please consult the Program Chair.

Rebuttal

The rebuttal process will occur in April 2022 (see Important Dates), and will give the authors an opportunity to respond 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.

Acknowledgements

This call-for-papers is an adaptation and evolution of content from previous instances of ISMM and PLDI. We are grateful to prior organizers for their work, which is reused here.

Questions? Use the ISMM contact form.