Call for Papers

ACM Turing Celebration Conference - China (ACM TURC) 2026, will be held in Hangzhou from July 4 to 5, 2026. Yannis Ioannidis, the President of ACM and academician Mei Hong serve as the chairmen of the academic Steering Committee. Academician Chun Chen, academician Ninghui Sun, and Prof. Huadong Ma serve as co-chairs. Domestic and international academic experts and professors, including ACM Turing Award winners, share their views on cutting-edge technology and artificial intelligence, and discuss the future of computing science. The paper track provides an opportunity to engage with attendees on the material presented in the talks, present early-stage work, and receive feedback from both the industry and the academia. The TPC chairs invite the submission of full papers and poster papers to following symposia for presentation and publication in the conference proceedings.

Technical Symposia

l SIGAI China: invites submissions on a wide range of artificial intelligence (AI) principles and techniques.

General Chair:

Gang Pan (Zhejiang University, China)

TPC Co-Chairs:

TBD

l SIGCOMM China: invites submissions on a wide range of networking research.

General Chair:

Shibo He (Zhejiang University, China)

TPC Co-Chairs:

TBD

l SIGCSE China: provides a forum for educators to discuss issues related to computing programs, curricula, and courses, as well as syllabi, laboratories, and other elements of teaching and pedagogy.

General Chair:

Bo Yang (University of Jinan, China)

TPC Co-Chairs:

TBD

l SIGMOBILE China: invites submissions on a wide range of mobile computing and wireless networking research.

General Chair:

Liang Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

TPC Co-Chairs

TBD

l SIGMOD China: invites the submission of original research contributions relating to all aspects of data management defined broadly.

General Chair:

Hongzhi Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)

TPC Co-Chairs:

TBD

l SIGSAC China: seeks innovative work related to cyber security and data privacy.

General Chair:

Zhan Qin (Zhejiang University, China)

TPC Co-Chairs:

TBD

l SIGSPATIAL China: invites submissions on a wide range of spatial data management, analysis and applications.

General Chair:

Guanjie Zheng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

TPC Co-Chairs:

TBD

l SIGWEB China: invites submissions on a wide range of hypertext in all its forms, social networks, knowledge management, document engineering, digital libraries, and the Web as both an information tool and a social force.

General Chair:

Xuequn Shang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)

TPC Co-Chairs:

TBD

Author and Submission Guidelines

Full papers: contain no more than six single-spaced and numbered pages, including figures, tables, any appendices, and any other material, followed by as many pages as necessary for bibliographic references. Font size should be no smaller than 10 points. Double column format with each column having dimensions 9.25 inches x 3.33 inches, a space of 0.33 inches between the two columns, and with no more than 55 lines of text per column. Submissions should fit properly on US letter-sized paper (8.5 inches by 11 inches). All submitted papers will be considered for a Best Paper Award.

Poster papers: we invite each winner of 2024/2025 ACM China Rising Star Award and 2024/2025 ACM China Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award to submit one poster papers. Poster papers contain no more than two single-spaced and numbered pages, including figures, tables, any appendices, and bibliographic references with the rest settings same as full papers.

Submissions must be in PDF (Portable Document Format). Authors should ensure that they are compatible with Adobe Acrobat (English version). Any other formats, including Postscript and MS-Word, will not be accepted. All submissions will be reviewed using a single-blind review process. Accepted papers and posters will be included in ACM Digital Library (ACM DL), publishing under ACM OPEN, and subjected to ACM APC (https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/author-guidance).

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support. Papers should be submitted via the following link after registering a CMT account:

https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/TURC2026

Important Dates

Submission deadline                           May 10, 2026

Notification of acceptance            June 10, 2026

Camera-ready                      June 20, 2026