sape@mcvax.uucp (Sape Mullender) (03/04/86)
. Call for Participation Workshop ``Making Distributed Systems Work'' Sponsored by ACM SIGOPS and the Centre for Mathematics & Computer Science, Amsterdam September 8-10, 1986 Amsterdam, Netherlands Purpose of the workshop is to bring together people involved in design and implementation of distributed operating systems, distributed file systems and distributed applications. Technical discussions will concentrate on design principles for distributed systems and experience with distributed systems. Topics of interest might be: - interprocess communication mechanisms - flexible accommodation of network hierarchies - protection in distributed systems - distributed file systems - distributed naming - load sharing - replication and high availability Attendance to the workshop will be limited to 50 people. Those interested in participating in the workshop are invited to submit a brief description (3 pages or less) of their current project. These position papers will be used by the programme committee to select the participants. A summary of the workshop will be published in Operating Systems Review. Send seven copies of your project summary to: If you're in Africa, Asia, North or South America Australia, or Europe Send to Dr. Sape Mullender Dr. Walter Tichy CWI Carnegie Group Inc. Kruislaan 413 650 Commerce Court at Station Square 1098 SJ Amsterdam Pittsburg, Pa 15219 Netherlands U.S.A. +31 20 592 4139 +1 412 642 6900 sape@mcvax.uucp tichy@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu Submission deadline: April 15, 1986 Acceptance Notification: May 31, 1986 Programme Committee: David Clark (MIT, USA) Andrew Herbert (ANSA project, UK) Klaus-Peter Loehr (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Deutschland) Sape Mullender (CWI, Nederland) Najah Naffah (Bull Transac, France) Liba Svobodova (IBM Zuerich, Schweiz) Walter Tichy (Carnegie Group, USA)