Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: Sandhya Dwarkadas <sandhya@erfordia.cs.rice.edu>
Subject: Call for Papers - SOSP15
Organization: Rice University
Date: 25 Feb 1995 20:01:09 GMT
Message-ID: <3ivv98$ddi@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

			 Call for Papers
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		15th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
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			December 3-6, 1995
		    Copper Mountain Resort, Colorado

		      Sponsored by ACM SIGOPS

		John Bennett, Rice University, General Chair

		Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC, Program Chair


Authors are invited to submit papers to the 15th SOSP describing original
research related to the design, implementation, and analysis of operating
systems. We encourage papers about systems issues on a wide range of platforms,
including imbedded and portable computers, workstations, high performance
machines, and production environments. Preference will be given to papers of
unusual novelty or unusual practicality, papers whose authors ensure replicable
results (e.g., by making available source code), and papers critiquing prior
work or continuing a significant research dialogue. We seek a broad conference
of high relevance and high quality.

The field of operating systems is closely tied to other areas of computer
science such as computer architecture, data communications, programming
systems, and applications. The Symposium attracts attendees with diverse
backgrounds, and we explicitly solicit papers not only in the ``traditional
core'' of the field, but also in the interface to these other areas. Topics of
interest include, but are not restricted to:

Multiprocessor systems	
Ubiquitous computing 
Performance tools and techniques
Languages and programming 
Support for multimedia 
Real-time systems
Transactional approaches 
I/O and file systems	
Low Power OS
High-performance systems 
Heterogeneous systems 
Mobile computing
The architecture/OS interface	
Distributed systems 
System structure and organization
Communications 
Reliability 
Security

Blind reviewing of {\bf full papers} will be done by the program committee, 
assisted by outside referees. 
Papers must use a typeface no smaller than 10 point, and
be no longer than sixteen (16) 8.5x11 or A4 pages including everything
(references, title page, appendices, etc.); (the Program Chair will
shred papers exceeding these limits). Substantially identical papers
must not have been
published elsewhere or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. The
title of the paper and the authors' names and addresses, and if possible, an
e-mail address for the contact author, should appear on a cover sheet
accompanying the paper. Authors must NOT be identified in the paper itself,
either explicitly or by reference or acknowledgement.

Program Committee:

Dave Redell, DEC SRC
Andrew Black, Oregon Graduate Institute
Margo Seltzer, Harvard
Deborah Estrin, USC
John Ousterhout, Sun Microsystems
David Nichols, Xerox PARC
Greg Minshall, Novell
Michael B. Jones, Microsoft Research
Hank Levy, U Washington
Frans Kaashoek, MIT
Susan Owicki, independent consultant
Mark Weiser (Chair), Xerox PARC
Mary Baker, Stanford 
Sacha Krakowiak, Bull-IMAG & U Grenoble

Please send FIFTEEN paper copies of your paper 
(double sided if possible) to the Program Chair:

Dr. Mark Weiser (weiser@xerox.com)
Xerox PARC
3333 Coyote Hill Rd., 
Palo Alto, 
CA 94304  USA.

Papers will be provisionally accepted subject to revision and approval by a
program committee member acting as a shepherd. A subset will then be fully
accepted, at which time authors will be encouraged to supply an electronic
version for internet access, and will be expected to sign an ACM copyright
release form. Proceedings will be distributed at the Symposium and published as
an issue of Operating Systems Review, the SIGOPS quarterly. Papers of
particular merit will also be forwarded to ACM Transactions on Computer
Systems.

Deadline for receipt of submissions: March 24, 1995
Acceptance notification (approximately): June 23, 1995
Deadline for FTP-ready and camera-ready final papers: August 18, 1995

For further details, browse the www page at 
http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/SOSPhome.html.

