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ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS CONVENTION UNIX 92 ================== 5th Conference and Exhibition March 23 - 27, 1992 CNIT, Paris - La Defense Open Systems: Inter-operability =============================== UNIX is a registered trademark of Unix System Laboratories in the United States and other countries. The Associaton Franc (AFUU) is organizing, in collaboration with the Bureau International de Relations Publiques (BIRP), CONVENTION UNIX 92 from 23rd to 27th March,1992, at CNIT, Paris-La Defense. This event is centered on tutorials and conferences dedicated to UNIX and Open Systems. A display of hardware and software organized by more than 150 exhibitors, will take place at the same time. CONVENTION UNIX 92 is an even more important event than usual. 1992 will provide the occasion for us to celebrate the tenth anniversary of AFUU. Consequently, extra care will be taken in the organization of the CONVENTION, both from the point of view of the quality of the conferences, tutorials and the exhibition, as of certain events whereby we shall celebrate this 10th anniversary together. The organizers are open to all suggestions in line with this aim. =========== The theme =========== Users have more and more sophisticated operational requirements and the facts prove that these needs can no longer be satisfied in the sole context of proprietary products. Users want open and evolutionary systems which make the best use of the variety of solutions offered to them. Software and inter-operability is one solution. It may be defined as the ability which applications and systems of different origins to cooperate to produce an integrated service for the user. In the same way as we have been able to come to terms with the hardware heterogeneity, inter-operability enables bridges to be built between different types of software components in order to develop fully open systems. The purpose of CONVENTION UNIX 92 is to clarify and illustrate this notion of inter-operability, both from the technical and economic points of view. What does it provide to the users and to the companies? What are the benefits for the users? What are the economic benefits? How is it done? What are the concrete and demonstrable examples of it? The Programme Committee would like to receive submissions in the following three categories : Man/machine interfaces: ======================= They provide the user with an ultimate view of the realization of his needs. Hence, man/machine interfaces are one of the keys to inter-operability. By facilitating communication with the machine (integration of voice, data and picture), they should lead to better productivity and to "inter-operability" between men and machines. Although the ergonomics and operator comfort of existing tools are now an established fact, the variety of interfaces still remains a barrier to be overcome. Applications: ============= Applications are the essential components in the creation of services (data management, transactional processing/OLTP). How do they cooperate? Are the emergence and the adherence to standards, and API definitions, sufficient to guarantee the interaction between components? How can compatibility be defined? Does compatibility between interfaces guarantee the portability of applications? How can we re-use these components to improve return on software investment? The tools of inter-operability: =============================== What are the bases on which inter-operability between men, interfaces and applications may be founded? What are the basic services necessary to the applications and to the man/machine interfaces to permit cooperation (distributed systems, communications protocols, RPC)? What are the languages and methods which facilitate the implementation of inter-operability (programming and object-oriented languages, interfaces generators)? What are the consequences on software engineering? What are the development costs? The purpose of this Conference is to create a vast forum in which information can be exchanged about experiences with inter-operability, the technology, the risks and benefits and the applications in everyday use. The papers may cover users experiences, industrialists' and manufacturers' strategies, technological innovation in the research world, or even the broad principles in a particular field. =========== Tutorials =========== The tutorials will provide the listeners with lectures on clearly defined subjects. Their purpose will be to present the state-of-the-art of the most important points in the implementation of inter-operability. As it was the case last year, these tutorials will be led by experts of national and international fame. The persons interested in lecturing at a tutorial are invited to contact the chairman of the Programme Committee as soon as possible. Dates to remember ================= _____________________________________________________________________ | September 27, 1991 : deadline for the receipt of full papers | | or extended abstracts by the Convention | | Secretariat. | | | | October 25, 1991 : notification to authors of the Programme | | Committee's decision. | | | | December 13, 1991 : deadline for the receipt of the final texts | | by the Convention Secretariat. | |___________________________________________________________________| Submission of papers ==================== Paper proposals should have a title, the name of the author and the organization to which he belongs. These proposals should include the complete text (5 to 10 pages) or at least an extended abstract (2 pages). They will be examined on the basis of their quality, originality, and the adherence to the general theme of the Convention (the inter-operability of Open Systems) and to the directives given : Man/machine interfaces: graphics, multi-media, ergonomics, learning; Applications: DBMS, transactional processing, standards implementation; Tools: distributed processing, RPC, multi-personality systems, communication between UNIX and other systems, object-oriented languages, software engineering. The Programme Committee wishes to include both technical papers and syntheses of different approaches. The quality of the lectures depends to a large extent on the facilities which are provided to the Programme Committee to enable it to make its decision on the acceptance of a paper. Consequently, candidates are strongly encouraged to supply a complete version of their text as soon as possible. Official languages are French and English. A simultaneous translation service will be available for conferences and tutorials. Proposals should be sent to: ============================ ___________________________________________ | A.F.U.U. | | Secretariat de la CONVENTION UNIX 92 | | 11, rue Carnot | | 94270 Le Kremlin-Bicetre - France | | | | Telephone : (+33) 1.46.70.95.90 | | Fax : (+33) 1.46.58.94.20 | | Telex : 263887 F | | E-mail : afuuconf@inria.inria.fr | |__________________________________________| Recommendations to authors: ========================== For the final version of your paper, if it is accepted, it is essential that we receive, in good time : o a camera-ready copy (that is on paper) of your article ; o the source text which will be processed during the preparation of the proceedings. Please note that if your text includes drawings or illustrations, it is essential that we have a printed version of them. Extended abstracts are not subject to the recommendations below. The source of your document should reach us on one of the following media : o electronic mail addressed to Philippe Dax (dax@enst.fr) ; o QIC24 (150 Mo) cartridge ; o 3 1/2" or 5 1/4" floppy disk (MSDOS format) ; o Mac floppy disk. The format of this source may be one of the following : o "nroff" or "troff" using macros "mm", "ms", "tbll" and "eqn" ; o "TeX" or "LaTeX" (if you use specific macros, please attach them to the source) ; o ASCII mentioning the characters which are accentuated ; o WORD (DOS or Mac) ; o figures should be supplied in PostScript or "pic" whenever possible. The composition of the proceedings should be in "troff " ("mm " macros) and "TeX", producing the PostScript output which will be sent directly to our printer. Useful addresses Convention Chairman Sylvain Langlois Electricite de France - Direction des Etudes et Recherches Tel : (+33) 1.47.65.44.02 Fax : (+33) 1.47.65.30.01 E-mail : sylvain@cli53an.edf.fr Programme Committee Chairman Fran Chorus systemes Tel : (+33) 1.30.64.82.36 Fax : (+33) 1.30.57.00.66 E-mail : francois@chorus.fr