npg@sundc.UUCP (Neil Groundwater) (11/02/88)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Summer 1989 USENIX Conference
June 12-16, Baltimore, Maryland
Papers in all areas of UNIX(tm)-related research and development are
solicited for formal review for the technical program of the 1989
Summer USENIX Conference. Accepted papers will be presented during
the three days of technical sessions at the conference and published
in the conference proceedings. The technical program is considered
the leading forum for the presentation of new developments in work
related to or based on the UNIX operating system.
Appropriate topics for technical presentations include, but are not
limited to:
Performance:
Kernel enhancements
Compute and file servers
Scaling issues resulting from more MIPS
Filesystems: CDROM, WORM, network, archival
Networks: WAN, LAN, UUCP, OSI, distributed services
User interfaces
High reliability/availability, fault-tolerance
Heterogeneous environments: DOS/UNIX migration, mainframes
Media: graphics, video, audio, art, education
System and network administration
Trends:
Lightweight processes
Neural networks
Object-oriented extensions
All submissions should describe new and interesting work. Like recent
technical programs for USENIX conferences, the Baltimore conference is
requiring the submission of full papers rather than extended
abstracts. The review and production cycle will not allow time for
rewrite and re-review. (Time is, however, scheduled for authors of
accepted papers to perform minor revisions.) Acceptance or rejection
of a paper will be based solely on the work as submitted.
To be considered for the conference, a paper should include an
abstract of 100 to 300 words, a discussion of how the reported results
relate to other work, illustrative figures, and citations to relevant
literature. The paper should present sufficient detail of the work
plus appropriate background or references to enable the reviewers to
perform a fair comparison with other work submitted for the
conference. Full papers should be 8-12 single spaced typeset pages.
All final papers must be submitted in a format suitable for camera-
ready copy. For authors that do not have access to a suitable output
device, facilities will be provided.
An abstract should be submitted as soon as possible. Full details and
requirements will be supplied to prospective authors. Copies of the
full manuscript should be submitted by ordinary and electronic mail to
the Program Chairman. Electronic submissions are strongly
recommended; "troff -ms" if possible.
Four copies and one electronic copy of each submitted paper should be
received by February 17, 1989; this is an absolute deadline. Papers
not received by this date will not be considered. Papers which
clearly do not meet USENIX's standards for applicability, originality,
completeness, or page length may be rejected without review.
Acceptance notification will be made by April 3, 1989, and final
camera-ready papers will be due by April 24, 1989.
Persons interested in serving as referees are asked to send a note to
the Program Chairman with a list of technical interests.
Neil Groundwater
Baltimore USENIX Technical Program
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
8219 Leesburg Pike #700
Vienna, Virginia 22180
phone: (703) 883-1221
Abstracts, submissions, and questions:
usenet: {ucbvax,decvax,decwrl,seismo}!sun!balt-usenix
internet: balt-usenix@sun.com