pc@ukc.ac.uk (R.P.A. Collinson) (01/19/88)
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS EUUG AUTUMN '88 CONFERENCE Estoril, Portugal, 3-7 October 1988 NEW DIRECTIONS FOR UNIX The Autumn '88 European UNIX systems User Group Technical Conference will be held in Lisbon, Portugal. Technical tutorials will be held on Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th October followed by the three day conference, ending on Friday 7th October. A pre-conference registration pack containing detailed information will be issued in early June 1988. Call for Papers The EUUG invite abstracts from those wishing to present their work. All submitted papers will be refereed. They will be judged with respect to their quality, originality and relevance. Suggested subject areas include: o Real time o Fault tolerance o Security issues o Transaction processing o Distributed processing o Virtual memory o Multi processors and o Object oriented approaches parallelism o Supercomputing o Videotext applications o Internationalisation o Standards and conformance tests Submissions from Students are particularly encouraged under the EUUG Student Encouragement Scheme, details of which are available from the EUUG Secretariat. Important Dates Abstract deadline 30th April 1988 Acceptance notification 15th May 1988 Final paper received 1st August 1988 Method of submission Abstracts must be submitted by post to the EUUG Secretariat. All submissions will be acknowledged by return of post. Tutorial Solicitation Tutorials are an important part of the EUUG's biannual events providing detailed coverage of a number of topics. Past tutorials have been taught by leading experts. Those interested in offering a tutorial should contact the EUUG Tutorial Officer as soon as possible. Additional Information The Programme Chair, Dr Peter Collinson, will be pleased to provide advice to potential speakers. Dr Collinson may be contacted at the address below. If you wish receive a personal copy of any further information about this, and future EUUG events, please write, or send electronic mail, to the Secretariat. Places in the main conference hotel are limited. In line with the suggestion made at Dublin, it will be possible to book for conferences well in advance. Therefore, there will be a special bookings desk for this conference available during the London meeting. Useful Addresses Secretariat Tutorial Officer Programme Chair EUUG Neil Todd Dr Peter Collinson Owles Hall IST Computing Laboratory Owles Lane 60 Albert Court University of Kent BUNTINGFORD Prince Consort Road CANTERBURY Herts LONDON Kent SG9 9PL SW7 2BH CT2 7NF UK UK UK Phone: (+44) 763 73039 (+44) 1 581 8155 (+44) 227 764000 Ext 7619 Fax: (+44) 763 73255 (+44) 1 581 5147 Telex: 928476 ISTECH G Email: euug@inset.uucp neil@ist.co.uk pc@ukc.ac.uk Programme committee member Programme committee member Dr Ernst Janich Prof Jose Legatheaux-Martins University of Ulm Departemento de Informatica Sektion Informatik Facultal de Ciencias e Technologia PO Box 4066 Universitat Nova de Lisboa D-7900 ULM Quinta Da Torre WEST GERMANY 2825 Monta da Caparica PORTUGAL Phone: (+49) 731 176 2520 (+351) 1 295 46 51 (+49) 731 176 2522 Fax: (+49) 731 176 2038 Telex: 712567 UNIUL D Email: janich@uniulm.uucp inria!inesc!unl!jlm - - -