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Use when deciding whether a computer-systems performance project belongs at ACM SIGMETRICS or should be routed to IMC, SIGCOMM/NSDI/OSDI, INFOCOM, a learning venue (NeurIPS/ICML), or a performance journal (Performance Evaluation/TON/QUESTA), and when picking the right SIGMETRICS track (Theory / Measurement & Applied Modeling / Learning / Operational Systems).

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# SIGMETRICS Topic Selection

Decide the venue and track before drafting. SIGMETRICS — the ACM flagship for **performance
measurement, modeling, and evaluation of computer systems** — rewards a **rigorous
performance-evaluation contribution**: a stochastic/queueing model with a **proven bound**, a
**principled measurement study**, or a **learning-for-systems** algorithm with guarantees. A
technically strong paper whose real lesson is a *built system* (route to NSDI/OSDI), a *pure network
measurement* (route to IMC), or a *learning-theory result with no systems payoff* (route to
NeurIPS/COLT) is respected and then rejected as out of scope.

## The routing question that matters most

The decisive question is rarely "is this about systems performance?" but **"is the contribution an
analyzed/measured performance result, or is it something else with performance numbers attached?"**
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