Special Issue on the Work-in-Progress (WIP) session at the ACM SIGMETRICS 2018 Conference

The ACM SIGMETRICS 2018 conference was held in Irvine, CA, USA. For the first time, we organized the Work-in-Progress (WIP) session. This session provided a great opportunity to present earlystage research to receive valuable feedback from the community through a dedicated poster session. Topics fell within the purview of the SIGMETRICS main conference. Within these topics, we particularly encouraged (but were not limited to) submissions that are pursuing new, perhaps controversial, directions. We also welcomed submissions of posters corresponding to results presented at the SIGMETRICS-affiliated workshops. Anewcategory of posterswe introduced, unlike poster sessions at other conferences, is about systems published at related conference venues (such as SOSP, SIGCOMM, NSDI) that could benefit froma thorough analytical modeling. Thework in conferences like SOSP, SIGCOMM and NSDI tend to focus on the systemic architecture but often do not do a thorough job of analytically grounding their solutions. For submissions in this category, we asked the authors to clearly explain why the poster is relevant to the SIGMETRICS community. Submissions were judged based on their novelty as well as the potential to generate discussions. Eleven submissionswere accepted with attendance from USA and Asia. Topics range from cloud computing, power systems, security, to vehicular caching.