Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPs) are short presentations about work in progress, new results, or timely topics. We invite submissions for Work-in-Progress reports (WiPs) sessions. WiPs will be presented on  June 16, 2022, the second day of the conference, and will be given 3–5 minutes each. Each accepted presenter will be required to produce a video by May 24, 2022, and be present at their designated session during the conference for Q&A.

A WiP submission consists of a one-page abstract, not including references. Submit your abstract using following form. Abstracts should not be anonymized: include all information (title, authors’ names and affiliations, text, and citations).

In addition to papers that describe original research, FAST ’21 also solicits papers that describe real operational systems, including systems currently in production. Such papers should address experience with the practical design, implementation, analysis, deployment, or operation of such systems. We encourage submission of papers that disprove or strengthen existing assumptions, deepen the understanding of existing problems, and validate known techniques in environments in which they were never before used or tested. Deployed-system papers need not present new ideas or results to be accepted, but should offer useful guidance to practitioners.

A good WIP paper will demonstrate that the authors:

• are describing an operational system of broad interest;
• have addressed the practicality of the system in a real environment;
• have clearly explained the implementation of the system;
• have discussed practical problems encountered or expected in production; and
• have carefully evaluated the system with proper statistical techniques

WIP abstracts accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered.  If you need to file patents, please file before submissions.  If you need help filing patents, please feel free to contact us for help.