peter@world.std.com (Peter Salus) (09/27/90)
The AFUU has asked me to post this on their behalf:
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CONVENTION UNIX 91
4th Conferences Series and Exhibition
Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers
The French UNIX and Open Systems Users Group (AFUU), in cooperation
with the Bureau International des Relations Publiques (BIRP), is
organising the Convention UNIX 91.
This event is structured around a series of conferences, tutorials
and a commercial exhibition of hardware and software dedicated to
UNIX and Open Systems. The Convention will be held from the 26th to
the 30th of March 1991 at the CNIT, Paris La Defense.
Being open and international, the Conferences Programme Committee is
setting up three main streams of information to enable users,
researchers and manufacturers to create for themselves a wide forum
for exchange and dialogue:
o Technical Conferences;
o Users Sessions;
o Industrial Solutions
Technical Conferences
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These sessions will give the opportunity to familiarise with the
latest trends in research and development. The Programme Committee
suggests the following subject areas:
o Distributed Systems and Cooperative Processing;
o Networks: Interconnections, Interoperability and Management;
o System Administration and Security;
o New Technologies for Open Systems;
o Parallelism and New Architectures;
o Graphics Applications;
o Databases;
o Object Oriented Applications and Interfaces;
o Development and Runtime Environments.
Users Sessions
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Today, more than ever, UNIX and the Open Systems world is ruled by the
users. These sessions are intended to be a forum where these users,
coming from different technical areas, can meet and share their
experiences and analysis of their hardware and software installations.
Two major tracks are proposed for these sessions:
o Users Experiences, with the following topics:
- Configurations (mini and mainframes, microcomputers, networks, ...);
- standard applications (office automation, management, ...);
- specific applications (multimedia, industrial processing, ...);
- various facettes of UNIX insertion (professional, cultural,
technical);
- choice guidelines (benchmarks, validation, certification, ...).
o Open Systems Stakes, with the following topics:
- Market and trends;
- international standards vs. de-facto standards;
- applications portability.
Industrial Solutions
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In addition to a large exhibition where they can show and demonstrate
their products; industrialists, manufactuturers and software vendors,
will be able to participate to these sessions concerning existing or
forthcoming products.
Suggested topics are:
o Operating System (new developments, real time, system
administration tools, tools standardisation, interoperability);
o User Interfaces;
o Tools (security, project management, electronic mail);
o General Purpose and Specific Software Packages;
o Databases (building tools, access tools, distributed databases,
object oriented databases, databases and artificial intelligence);
o Software Engineering;
o Networking (mail, VIDEOTEX, ISDN);
o Office Automation and Desktop Publishing.
Method of submission
9th November 1990 : Deadline for the receipt of communications or
extended abstracts by the Conference Secretariat;
7th December 1990 : Notification to authors of the papers selected
by the Program Committee;
10th January 1991 : Deadline for the reception of the full papers
by the Conference Secretariat.
Submissions should include: a title, the author's name and
affiliation and the target audience (Technical Conference, Users
Session, Industrial Solutions). Official languages for the
Conferences are french and english. French/english translation
services will be provided.
Submissions should be sent to the following address:
A.F.U.U.
Secretariat de la Convention 91
11, rue Carnot
94270 Le Kremlin Bic^etre
France
Telephone: (+33)-1-46.70.95.90
Fax: (+33)-1-46.58.94.20
Telex: 263887F
E-Mail: afuuconf@inria.inria.fr
Programme Committee Chair:
Sylvain Langlois
EDF - Direction des Etudes et Recherches
IMA/ICI/IDR, M-305
1, avenue du General de Gaulle
92141 Clamart CEDEX, France
Tel : (+33)-1-47.65.44.02
Fax : (+33)-1-47.65.35.23
E-mail : sylvain@cli53an.edf.fr
Conferences Proceedings Preparation
Philippe Dax
Telecom Paris
E-mail: dax@enst.fr
"Technical Conferences" Chair:
Jean-Christophe Petithory
Universite Paris VIII
Departement Informatique
2, rue de la Liberte
93526 Saint-Denis CEDEX 2, France
Tel: (+33)-1-49.40.64.00
E-mail: jcp@uparis8.univ-paris8.fr
"Users Sessions" Chair
Jean-Michel Cornu
Consultant
69, rue de Seine
91130, Ris Orangis, France
Tel: (+33)-1-69.43.48.47
Fax : (+33)-1-60.78.00.98
E-mail : Jean-Michel.Cornu@enst.fr
"Industrial Solutions" Chair
Jean-Luc Anthoine
IUT Departement Informatique
Rue Engel Gros - BP 527
90016 Belfort CEDEX, France
Tel: (+33)-84.21.01.00
Fax : (+33)-84.22.29.05
E-mail : anthoine@afuu.fr
Sylvain
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Sylvain Langlois "Dogmatic attachement to the supposed merits
(sylvain@cli53an.edf.fr) of a particular structure hinders the search
(sylvain@chorus.fr) of an appropriate structure" (Robert Fripp)
--
The difference between practice and theory in practice is always
greater than the difference between practice and theory in theory.