zwicky@.erg.sri.com (Elizabeth Zwicky) (02/28/91)
CALL FOR PAPERS
LISA V
We are looking for papers to be presented at the fifth Usenix
conference on Large Installation System Administration, which will be
held this fall in San Diego, California. The LISA conferences address
topics of interest to people administering large UNIX sites.
Previously, attempts have been made to define "large" in terms of
number of machines, gigabytes of disk, or users. We feel that it is
more fruitful to define a large installation as one that has problems
that cannot be solved by simply scaling up well-understood solutions
used on single machines with few users.
We are particularly interested in papers which take a theoretical or
comparative attitude, presenting discussions of the relative merits of
various approaches to problems. As always, we welcome presentation of
specific solutions to specific problems, where they advance the state
of the art. We also welcome papers discussing "non-technical" problems
dealing with users and management.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Strategies for managing data - file migration, archive
systems, backup systems
Security issues, especially where multiple people are
privileged users
Human issues of administration
Integration of heterogenous systems
Usage monitoring and accounting systems
Administration of remote sites
Network monitoring
Queuing systems
Papers should be from 5 to 15 pages in length, including diagrams,
figures, etc. Complete papers are due by July 8, 1991; the committee
will consider and comment on extended abstracts or outlines submitted
by June 17th, but may require full papers to be submitted before a
final decision is made.
Deadline for extended abstracts or outlines: 6/17/91
Submission deadline: 7/8/91
Authors notified: 7/29/91
Program committee:
Steve Romig, Ohio State University
Bjorn Satdeva, /sys/admin Inc.
Steve Simmons, Industrial Technology Institute
Pat Wilson, Dartmouth University
For more information, please contact the program chair:
Elizabeth D. Zwicky
zwicky@erg.sri.com
415-859-3290 (9 am to 6 pm Pacific time)
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Ave.
Menlo Park, CA 94025