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Use when deciding whether a cloud-computing project belongs at ACM SoCC or should be routed to OSDI, NSDI, EuroSys, USENIX ATC, SOSP, or a data venue (SIGMOD/VLDB), leaning on SoCC's unique joint SIGMOD+SIGOPS identity, its welcome of measurement and experience papers alongside systems-building, and the model-swap and re-label tests.

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# SoCC Topic Selection

Decide the venue before drafting. SoCC — the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing — is the **only
conference co-sponsored by SIGMOD and SIGOPS**, and that joint sponsorship *is* its identity: it
sits at the **systems-and-data intersection** of cloud research. Reviewers read for a **cloud
contribution that matters at scale**, and the venue explicitly welcomes not just clean-slate
systems but **measurement studies, experience papers, and cloud-economics work** that a pure
OS/networking flagship might treat as second-class. A technically strong paper whose real home is
kernel scheduling, network fabric, or query-optimizer internals is respected and then routed
elsewhere.

## The routing question that matters most

The decisive question is rarely "is this cloud?" but **"does this contribution live at the
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