SYSTOR promotes experimental and practical computer systems research and welcomes both academic and industrial contributions, including the following topics:

1. Operating systems, computer architecture, and their interactions
2. Distributed, parallel, and cloud systems
3. Networked, mobile, wireless, peer-to-peer, and sensor systems
4. Runtime systems and compiler/programming-language support
5. File and storage systems
6. Security, privacy, and trust
7. Virtualization
8. Embedded and real-time systems
9. Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability
10. Deployment, usage, and experience
11. Performance evaluation and workload characterization