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Main Authors: Lopez, Pedro Garcia, Alet, Marina López, Zakan, Usama Benabdelkrim, Datta, Anwitaman
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19245
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author Lopez, Pedro Garcia
Alet, Marina López
Zakan, Usama Benabdelkrim
Datta, Anwitaman
author_facet Lopez, Pedro Garcia
Alet, Marina López
Zakan, Usama Benabdelkrim
Datta, Anwitaman
contents In recent years, Asia's rapid growth in research output has been reshaping the computing research landscape. What was once a two-block system (America and Europe) is evolving into a multipolar world with three major hubs: America, Europe, and Asia. To study these pivotal changes and evaluate international diversity, we have analyzed the past 13 years of 13 international systems research conferences: ASPLOS, NSDI, OSDI, SIGCOMM, ATC, EuroSys, ICDCS, Middleware, SoCC, CCGRID, IC2E, IEEE Cloud and EuroPar. Our analysis focuses on accepted papers and participation in the Program Committee, grouping the results by region (America, Europe, and Asia). Surprisingly, we find a pronounced historical imbalance in international diversity among top-tier systems conferences (ASPLOS, OSDI, NSDI, SIGCOMM). While most other conferences have progressively reflected Asia's growing research presence over the past decades, this group has shown a noticeable adjustment only in the recent four years. We also identify persistent rigidities in how program committee (PC) diversity adapts to shifts in accepted paper origins, with a consistent under-representation of researchers from Asian organizations in many PCs.
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spellingShingle How international are international computing conferences? -- An exploration with systems research conferences
Lopez, Pedro Garcia
Alet, Marina López
Zakan, Usama Benabdelkrim
Datta, Anwitaman
Other Computer Science
In recent years, Asia's rapid growth in research output has been reshaping the computing research landscape. What was once a two-block system (America and Europe) is evolving into a multipolar world with three major hubs: America, Europe, and Asia. To study these pivotal changes and evaluate international diversity, we have analyzed the past 13 years of 13 international systems research conferences: ASPLOS, NSDI, OSDI, SIGCOMM, ATC, EuroSys, ICDCS, Middleware, SoCC, CCGRID, IC2E, IEEE Cloud and EuroPar. Our analysis focuses on accepted papers and participation in the Program Committee, grouping the results by region (America, Europe, and Asia). Surprisingly, we find a pronounced historical imbalance in international diversity among top-tier systems conferences (ASPLOS, OSDI, NSDI, SIGCOMM). While most other conferences have progressively reflected Asia's growing research presence over the past decades, this group has shown a noticeable adjustment only in the recent four years. We also identify persistent rigidities in how program committee (PC) diversity adapts to shifts in accepted paper origins, with a consistent under-representation of researchers from Asian organizations in many PCs.
title How international are international computing conferences? -- An exploration with systems research conferences
topic Other Computer Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19245