The International Symposium on Microarchitecture® (MICRO) is the premier forum for the presentation and discussion of new ideas in microarchitecture, compilers, hardware/software interfaces, and design of advanced computing and communication systems. The goal of MICRO is to bring together researchers in the fields of microarchitecture, compilers, and systems for technical exchange. The MICRO community has enjoyed having close interaction between academic researchers and industrial designers—we aim to continue and strengthen this longstanding tradition at the 58th MICRO in Seoul, Korea.

We invite original paper submissions related to (but not limited to) the following topics:

    Microarchitectural, architectural, compiler, and hybrid techniques for improving system performance, power, energy-efficiency, security, cost, complexity, programmer productivity, predictability, quality of service, reliability, dependability, scalability, sustainability
    Processor, memory, and storage architectures
    Multicore and multiprocessor systems
    Instruction-, thread-, and data-level parallelism
    Prediction and Speculation
    Memory Hierarchy
    Cloud and datacenter-scale computing
    IoT, mobile, and embedded architecture
    Interconnection network, router, and network interface architecture
    Accelerator-based, application-specific, and reconfigurable architectures
    Architectural support for programming languages, compilation, software development, security and privacy, virtualization
    Architectures for emerging technologies and applications
    Architectural support for non-volatile/persistent memory
    Quantum computing
    In-/near-memory or in-/near-storage processing
    Approximate computing and architectural support for approximation
    Effects of circuits and technology on architecture
    Architecture modeling and simulation methodologies
    Evaluation and measurement of real computing systems

Submissions should follow the guidelines and formatting rules specified on the conference website. Papers that violate these guidelines and rules may be returned to author(s) without review. Papers will go through a rigorous peer-review process. All accepted papers will be presented at the conference.

The Program Chair(s) are responsible for the paper selection process and do not submit papers to avoid potential bias. Program Committee members and the Organizing Committee, including the General Chair(s), are allowed to submit papers because of double-blind reviewing and conflict-of-interest declaration and enforcement. The rationale for explicitly allowing General Chair(s) to submit is that they do not participate in the paper selection process, nor are they involved in the Program Chair and Program Committee selection process. See here for the updated bylaws approved by the MICRO Steering Committee.