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asplos-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a project belongs at ASPLOS or at a single-community venue — applying the cross-layer deletion test, matching against ASPLOS's architecture/PL/OS intersection identity, routing to ISCA/MICRO/HPCA, PLDI/POPL, SOSP/OSDI/EuroSys, SC, or MLSys instead, and choosing between the April and September deadlines.
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# ASPLOS Topic Selection
ASPLOS's self-description is unusually operational: it seeks work that improves the
core disciplines — operating systems, programming languages, computer architecture —
**and their intersection**, and its 2027 rapid-review round explicitly prioritizes
submissions at that intersection (CFP, checked 2026-07-08). Venue fit is therefore
not a prestige question here; it is a screening variable. A technically strong paper
that lives cleanly inside one community can be filtered in the first round not
because it is bad but because a single-community venue owns its reviewers.
## The deletion test
Ask, for each layer the paper touches: *if this layer's content were deleted, would
a publishable paper remain?*