Connect

USENIX ATC Paper Guide

brycewang-stanfordbybrycewang-stanford
•
1.1k
•
Learning & Documentation

Evaluates systems research manuscripts and guides submission strategy, framing, and evidence standards for the USENIX Annual Technical Conference.

The USENIX ATC Paper Guide helps systems researchers assess manuscript fit, refine technical narratives, and navigate submission requirements for the USENIX Annual Technical Conference. It provides targeted advice on evidence thresholds for practical artifacts across operating systems, storage, networking, security, and cloud infrastructure. By diagnosing missing baselines, unrepresentative workloads, and policy violations, this skill helps authors mitigate desk-reject risks, adhere to current-cycle CFPs, and prepare persuasive rebuttal strategies.

Key Features

01Evaluates manuscript scope and fit for USENIX ATC practical systems criteria
02Provides intelligent re-routing recommendations to sibling venues like FAST, EuroSys, and ASPLOS
031,074 GitHub stars
04Structures introductions and evaluation sections around venue-specific reviewer expectations
05Identifies evidence gaps across prototypes, baselines, and workload evaluations
06Highlights common desk-reject risks including anonymity and formatting violations

Use Cases

01Auditing an experimental evaluation to ensure realistic workloads and robust baselines
02Re-framing an arXiv preprint or draft into a selective USENIX ATC conference submission
03Choosing between USENIX ATC and related systems conferences for manuscript submission