POMACS V10, N1, March 2026 Editorial

The Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems (POMACS) focuses on the measurement and performance evaluation of computer systems and operates in close collaboration with the ACM Special Interest Group SIGMETRICS. All papers in this issue of POMACS will be presented at the ACM SIGMETRICS 2026 conference on June 8-12, 2026 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. The papers in this issue were selected during the Fall submission round by the 113 members of the ACM SIGMETRICS 2026 program committee via a rigorous review process. Each paper was conditionally accepted (and shepherded), or allowed to be resubmitted to one of the subsequent three SIGMETRICS deadlines, or rejected (with resubmission allowed only after a year). Of the 149 papers submitted, 25 papers were accepted by the program committee members (including two revised papers from the previous rounds out of four resubmissions). Each submission received between three and five reviews. Although most of the papers were decided in the online discussion phase, borderline cases were discussed during the online program committee meeting. There were two types of submission this year: regular papers and operational systems track -- the latter being intended to report measurement studies on currently deployed systems -- and the vast majority of the papers were regular papers (144 out of 149). Among these regular papers, each submission could indicate one or two possible tracks and roughly 36% of the submissions indicated Measurement & Applied Modeling, 33% Theory, 46% Systems, and 20% Learning. All papers went through the same review process. Many individuals contributed to the success of this POMACS issue. We thank the authors, who submitted their best work to SIGMETRICS/POMACS. We also thank the program committee members who provided constructive feedback in their reviews to authors and participated in the online discussions and program committee meeting. In addition, we thank several external reviewers who provided their expert opinions on specific submissions that required additional input. Finally, we are also grateful to the ACM SIGMETRICS Chair, Mor Harchol-Balter, to the SIGMETRICS Organization Committee, and to the SIGMETRICS Executive Committee for their ongoing efforts and initiatives for creating an exciting program for ACM SIGMETRICS 2026.