home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!ames!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!osr
- From: usenix!carolyn@uunet.UU.NET (Carolyn Carr)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.research
- Subject: USENIX Mach Symposium: Call for Papers
- Date: 10 Nov 1992 19:58:01 GMT
- Organization: Usenix Association Office, Berkeley
- Lines: 200
- Approved: comp-os-research@ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
- Message-ID: <1dp489INNo59@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
- Originator: osr@ftp
-
-
- Call for Papers
-
- USENIX Mach Symposium
-
- Santa Fe, NM
- April 19-21, 1993
-
- Extended Abstracts Due: December 4, 1992
-
- Background
-
- The use and influence of Mach on the operating systems community
- continues to grow. From its beginnings as a small research project,
- Mach has spread to become the basis for commercial products from
- a variety of vendors and a key component of innovative research
- efforts in both academic and industrial environments. At the same time,
- research and development continue to evolve Mach itself. The
- community of researchers and developers working with Mach is
- proving to be a very productive source of innovative systems.
-
- Activity in this field has been sufficiently wide-spread that the
- USENIX Association is pleased to once again sponsor a Mach symposium
- to bring together researchers, engineers, vendors and users of Mach
- systems. We will encourage discussion of all past and present
- Mach-related research, development, production and applications
- activities.
-
- Symposium Overview
-
- The symposium will be spread over three days. The first day will be
- devoted to tutorials on Mach 3.0, and will include both
- introduction/overview and advanced programming tracks. These
- tutorials should be of interest to both those desiring an
- introduction to Mach, and programmers interested in learning
- how to take better advantage of Mach features. The following two
- days will concentrate on presentation of refereed papers on past and
- present Mach-related work. Long breaks between presentations will
- provide opportunities for informal discussion. Some time will be
- available for descriptions of work in progress.
-
- Submissions
-
- Extended abstracts of 1500-2500 words (9000-15000 bytes or 3-5 pages)
- should be sent to David Black at the address below (those submitting
- hardcopy abstracts must send five copies). Shorter abstracts run a
- significant risk of rejection as there will be little on which the
- program committee can base an opinion. In addition to the extended
- abstract, authors must also supply an outline of the full paper and
- an estimate of its length.
-
- A good extended abstract will contain the following information in
- one form or another:
-
- Abstract 100-300 words (half a page) included verbatim in the
- final paper
-
- Introduction The problem; its importance; previous work
-
- Solution Issues, decisions, tradeoffs, rationale.
- Implementation details.
-
- Evaluation Performance results; effort required; lessons
- learned.
-
- Conclusion
-
- The extended abstract allows the program committee to analyze the
- content of the proposed paper. An outline lists the headings, major
- points and many minor points for each section of the actual paper.
- The outline should provide an idea of the form and style of your
- paper. This layout is not cast in concrete; just submit enough
- material to convince the committee that they want to accept the
- paper!
-
- Longer abstracts (up to and and including full papers) will be
- reviewed; the program committee appreciates any additional material
- that makes it easier to predict the content, organization, and
- style of the final paper. Authors should exercise appropriate
- restraint in determining the amount of material to submit.
-
- The submission package must include:
-
- + The extended abstract
-
- + Outline of rest of paper
-
- + Cover letter, detailing
-
- o Title of paper
-
- o Authors
-
- o Estimate of paper length
-
- o Contact author (liaison to program committee)
-
- o E-mail address and daytime phone number for contact
- author
-
- o Hours during which the daytime phone number can be
- used
-
- o Surface mail address
-
- o Optional FAX and home phone numbers
-
- + If hardcopy is being submitted, five copies of the
- submission
-
- The submission should be sent electronically to dlb@osf.org, or by
- surface mail (five copies of abstract) to David Black at the address
- listed below. Submissions made by FAX will not be accepted.
- Electronic submissions must be in plain text that can be reviewed in
- the form submitted; the program committee does not have the time
- to run formatting tools (e.g., TeX, LaTeX) or to figure out why
- a printer refuses to print some Postscript document.
-
- All submissions will be acknowledged. Authors of approved abstracts
- will be required to submit full-length papers (8-15 pages)
- approximately five weeks after notification of acceptance. Formatting
- guidelines will be provided.
-
- Areas of interest include, but certainly are not limited to:
-
- o Applications and support for programming languages
-
- o Mach 2.5 and related systems (e.g., OSF/1)
-
- o Mach 3.0 and servers
-
- o Mach-based operating system implementation and emulation
-
- o Use of Mach subsystems in other operating systems
-
- o Multiprocessor and parallelization experiences
-
- o Distributed systems, including multicomputers, clusters,
- etc.
-
- o Real Time
-
- o Security
-
- o Performance
-
- o Productization experiences
-
- o Comparisons of Mach with other operating systems; e.g.,
- Chorus, Sprite, Amoeba, V, and of course, UNIX
-
- o Future work
-
- The program committee is especially interested in papers describing
- applications and/or system servers that take advantage of Mach
- features in addition to papers describing the evolution of Mach
- kernel technology. Submissions are strongly encouraged from efforts
- across the entire spectrum from research projects to product
- development efforts (including work that falls between these endpoints).
-
- Important dates:
-
- Extended abstracts: December 4, 1992
-
- Notification to Authors: January 18, 1993
-
- Camera-ready, full papers: February 26, 1993
-
- For further information about the symposium, contact the program
- chair:
-
- David Black
- Research Institute
- Open Software Foundation
- 1 Cambridge Center, 11th Floor
- Cambridge, MA 02142
- Voice: +1 (617) 621-7347
- FAX: +1 (617) 621-8696
- E-Mail: dlb@osf.org
-
- Program Committee
-
- David Golub, Carnegie Mellon University
- Alan Langerman, Orca Systems, Inc.
- Jay Lepreau, University of Utah
- Avadis Tevanian, Jr., NeXT, Inc.
-
- For registration, hotel and additional information please contact:
-
- USENIX Conference Office
- 22672 Lambert Blvd., Suite 613
- El Toro, CA 92630
- Phone: 714/588-8649
- FAX: 714/588-9706
- email: conference@usenix.org
-
-
-
-
-
-