Paper Submission
We invite original, unpublished research contributions in the following categories:
Submission Types
- Full papers: up to 6 pages, IEEE two-column format (references excluded)
- Short / Work-in-Progress papers: up to 4 pages, IEEE two-column format (references excluded)
Submission Site
👉 Submit your paper via EasyChair:
EasyChair submission system
(Select the DSAS2026 Workshop track during submission.)
Review Process
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the workshop Program Committee. Each paper will receive 2–3 reviews, and acceptance decisions will be based on relevance, technical quality, and clarity.
Important Dates
- Paper submission:
March 22, 2026 (AoE)
March 31, 2026 (AoE) 🔴 EXTENDED DEADLINE - Notification of acceptance:
April 10, 2026 (AoE)April 17, 2026 (AoE) 🔴 EXTENDED NOTIFICATION DATE - Camera-ready deadline: April 27, 2026 (AoE, hard deadline)
- Workshop date: June 22, 2026 (during DSN 2026)
Open and Unclassified Research Policy
This workshop accepts open, unclassified research only. Submissions must not require security clearance and must be suitable for open academic publication.
Paper Categories (Adapted DSN Guidelines)
When submitting, authors have to select one of the following categories:
Regular papers (6 pages): a full paper describing a research contribution, including experimental work focused on implementation and evaluation of existing techniques in the DSN and DSAS thematic areas. Papers should clearly describe a novel scientific contribution and a significant advancement of the state of knowledge in workshop-relevant topics. The paper should address a significant problem with a compelling solution whose validity and practical applicability are clearly discussed.
Short papers (4 pages): a shorter paper describing, blue-sky ideas, work-in-progress research, experiences or lessons learned applying tools and techniques to real-world problems and systems, or based on the empirical analysis of field data using a rigorous scientific approach. A paper in this category is expected to show new insights and experiences informing the research and practice of robust computing system design. Contributions reporting on industry practical experiences and lessons learned are highly encouraged, including studies reporting negative results or challenges about the practical applicability or scalability of research results in industry.
The number of pages indicated above includes everything: title page, text, figures, appendices, etc., excluding references. Papers that exceed the number of pages for that submission category will be rejected without review.
Independently of the paper category, we expect all papers to provide enough detail to enable the reproducibility of their experimental results and encourage authors, whenever possible, to make both the artifacts and datasets related to the paper publicly available.
Formatting Rules (Adapted DSN Guidelines)
Submissions must adhere to the IEEE Computer Society 8.5″x11″ two-column camera-ready format (using a 10-point font on 12-point single-spaced leading) as implemented by the LaTeX/Word templates available at the IEEE conference template page (last updated in 2024):
LaTex Package (ZIP)
Word Template (DOC)
Each paper must be submitted as a single Portable Document Format (PDF) file. All fonts must be embedded in the file. We also strongly recommend you print the file and review it for integrity (fonts, symbols, equations, etc.) before submitting it. A defective printing of your paper can undermine its chance of acceptance. Please take a note of the following:
- The first page must include the title of the paper, the type of the paper (Regular / Short), and a maximum 150-word abstract.
- Please take into account that the abstract will be used by the reviewers to bid on papers: describe the paper goals clearly, as well as the means used to achieve them. If the title and abstract are not sufficiently descriptive at the time of the abstract deadline, the submission may be rejected without review.
- The first page is not a separate page, but is a part of the paper (and thus has technical material in it). Thus, this page counts toward the total page budget for the paper.
- There is no page limit for references - however, authors must not put any text or figures on the pages for the references - if so, those pages will be included in the page limits above. The use of color for figures and graphs is encouraged, but the paper should be easily readable if printed in grayscale.
- Symbols and labels used in the graphs should be readable as printed, without requiring on-screen magnification.
- Try to limit the file size to less than 15 MB.
Anonymization Rules (Adapted DSN Guidelines)
Authors must make a good-faith effort to anonymize their papers for double-blind review. An author should always refer to their own related work in the third person, just like they would refer to any other related work. As an author, you should not identify yourself in the paper either explicitly or by implication (e.g., through references or acknowledgments).
Anonymization should not be done in a way to hurt the review process. For example, omitting published references or anonymizing them for the purposes of a double-blind process can significantly hurt the review process. As such, only non-destructive anonymization is required. For example, system names may be left un-anonymized, if the system name is important for a reviewer to be able to evaluate the work. For example, a paper on experiences with the design of .NET should not be rewritten to be about “an anonymous but widely used distributed systems platform.”
Additionally, please take the following steps when preparing your submission:
- Remove authors’ names and affiliations from the title page.
- Remove acknowledgment of identifying names and funding sources.
- Use care in naming your files. Source file names, e.g., Joe.Smith.dvi, are often embedded in the final output as readily accessible comments. Avoid names that could in any way be interpreted as being derived from the name of an author or identifying an author’s location or affiliation.
- Use care in referring to related work, particularly your own previously published work. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer unable to grasp the context. Instead, a good solution is to reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other piece of related work.
- If you have a concurrent submission, reference it as follows: “Closely related work describes a microkernel implementation [Anonymous 2025].”” with the corresponding citation: “[Anonymous 2025] Under submission. Details omitted for double-blind reviewing.” This is, for example, the case for extended versions of the paper available online.
- If you cite anonymous work, you must also send the deanonymized reference(s) to the PC chair in a separate email.
Authors should also avoid broadly advertising their work in a way that reaches the reviewers even if they are not searching for it (presentations in small meetings or seminars are allowed). It is unacceptable to discuss the work with program committee members. Posting the work on ArXiV or a similar site is within the authors’ rights; however, the authors should use a different title than the submission and they should avoid specifying that the work is under submission to DSN. In particular, please ensure that there are not old versions of the paper on ArXiV that have the same title as the submission.
Submissions that do not conform to the above submission deadline, anonymization, and formatting guidelines (e.g., are too long, use fonts or line spacing smaller than what is indicated) or are unoriginal, previously published, or under submission to multiple venues, will be disregarded.