SIGOPS ANNOUNCE monthly posting (03/02/2015)

DCC 2015

NVMSA

SYSTOR 2015

NEW THIS MONTH!

MSST 2015

ROSS 2015

MASCOTS 2015

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SECRYPT 2015

SOSP 2015

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MSPN2015

SRDS 2015

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SPE2015

ESORICS 2015

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WISTP'2015

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EuroSys 2015

IEEE CNS 2015

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APSys 2015

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ROME 2015

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C&TC 2015

ICMC 2015

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ICISS 2015

CloudDP 2015

MMSys 2015

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Call for Participation: EuroSys 2015
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We invite you to participate in Eurosys 2015.

The EuroSys conference series brings together professionals from academia
and industry. It has a strong focus on systems research and development:
operating systems, data base systems, real-time systems and middleware for
networked, distributed, parallel, or embedded computing systems. EuroSys has
become a premier forum for discussing various issues of systems software
research and development, including implications related to hardware and
applications.

EuroSys 2015 will take place in Bordeaux on April 21-24, 2015
(http://eurosys2015.labri.fr/).  Registration information is available at
http://eurosys2015.labri.fr/registration/. Early registration ends March 23,
2015.

The accepted papers, subject to shephering, are below:

    An Efficient Page-level FTL to Optimize Address Translation in Flash Memory

    Application-Assisted Live Migration of Virtual Machines with Java Applications

    CYRUS: Towards Client-Defined Cloud Storage

    Deriving and Comparing Deduplication Techniques Using a Model-Based
    Classification

    Expect the Unexpected: Designing Derivative Clouds

    Extensible Distributed Coordination
   
    Flux: Multi-Surface Computing in Android
  
    GD-Wheel: A Cost-Aware Replacement Policy for Key-Value Stores

    Guaranteeing Deadlines for Inter-Datacenter Transfers
    
    Gx: Enforcing data policies at the storage layer
    
    Hare: a file system for non-cache-coherent multicores

    High-Performance Determinism: Total Store Order Is Enough
   
    IN-NET: In-Network Processing for the Masses
  
    Irelia: Bridging the Programmability Gap in Heterogeneous-ISA Platforms
 
    KungfuValley: A Systematic Configuration Validation Framework for Cloud
    Services

    Large scale cluster management at Google with Borg

    MALT: Distributed Data-Parallelism for existing ML applications

    Maxoid: Security via Custom Views of State

    MIZAN: An In-Memory Object Caching Framework with Adaptive Load Balancing

    Musketeer: All for One, One for All in Data Processing Systems

    NBA (Network Balancing Act): A High-performance Packet Processing 
    Framework for Heterogeneous Processors

    PowerLyra: Differentiated Graph Computation and Partitioning on Skewed Graphs

    Process-level Power Estimation in VM-based Systems

    Putting the Consistency back into Eventual Consistency

    Scaling Concurrent Log-Structured Data Stores

    Simba: Tunable End-to-End Data Consistency for Mobile Apps

    Synapse: New Data Integration Abstractions for Agile Web Application
    Development

    Taming uncertainty in distributed systems with help from the network

    TinMan: Eliminating Confidential Mobile Data Exposure with
    Security-oriented Offloading

    Verifiable Differential Privacy

    Visigoth Fault Tolerance

    micro-PnP: Plug and Play Peripherals for the Internet of Things
    
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Call for Participation: FCRC 2015
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FCRC 2015 will be held in Portland Oregon from June 12-20. Chaired by Rajiv Gupta 
of UC Riverside, the conference will assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
conferences into a week-long coordinated meeting. The technical program for 
each affiliated conference will be independently administered, with each 
responsible for its own meeting’s structure, content and proceedings.
To the extent facilities allow attendees are free to attend technical sessions 
of other affiliated conferences being held at the same time as their 
“home” conference. Conferences include:
 
 CRA-W 2015: Career Mentoring Workshop
 EC 2015: The 16th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation
 HPDC 2015: The 24th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing
 CCC: Computational Complexity Conference 
 ISCA 2015: The 42nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture
 ISMM 2015: ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management
 IWQoS 2015: IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service
 LCTES 2015: ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers and Tools for Embedded Systems
 PLDI 2015: 36th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation
 SIGMETRICS 2015: International Conference on Measurement and modeling of Computer Systems
 SPAA 2015: ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures
 STOC 2015: 47th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing
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Call for Feedback: SIGOPS Hall of Fame Awards Selection Procedure
Revisions
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At the request of the SIGOPS chair, Jeanna Matthews, a group of us have been 
meeting to consider revisions to the selection procedures for the SIGOPS Hall 
of Fame Awards.

The Hall of Fame Awards were originally envisioned to serve two purposes.  
The first was to recognize papers from the long history of operating systems 
research that have had proven to have widespread impact, considering only papers
that have appeared at least ten years earlier.  The second was to encourage new
authors to aim higher -- to target work that will be seen in the future as 
having had widespread impact.  The selection process was designed to work in 
two stages: starting in a catch-up mode where up to five papers were selected 
per year, and then in steady state, where one to two newly eligible papers would
be chosen.

We have been more successful at the first goal than the second.  Since the 
selection process started in 2005, 34 truly impressive papers have been selected
for the HoF.  However, the median age of a paper at selection has been 25 years,
and only 5 papers published after 1990 have been selected.  Frustratingly, the 
rate of selection of newer papers has not improved; steady state still seems 
very far off.   This is despite the fact that the selected papers were, with few
exceptions, seen as having wide impact within ten years of publication.  
The current procedures also pose difficulties with sustainability of the 
selection process, procedural transparency, and conflict of interest management.

We propose the following modifications to the process:

1) In time for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of 
SIGOPS at SOSP 2015, we propose to complete the selection of the most 
influential papers of the past fifty years of operating systems research.  
The existing Hall of Fame papers provide a great foundation. In essence, 
we want to complete the catch-up mode over the next year.   
We envision the selection being done by a specially-formed program committee 
with two program co-chairs selected by the SIGOPS chair, with a published CFP, 
public nomination process, and standard conflict of interest rules. 
The intention is that the catchup process will cover papers published through 
SOSP 2005, and that nominations can be made by any SIGOPS member, including 
members of the PC.

2) To give us time to complete the catch-up process and to reduce duplicate 
work, we intend to suspend the selection of further papers to the Hall of Fame 
until the program committee can meet.  In particular, we do not intend to 
announce any new HoF awards at OSDI 2014.

3) Starting with OSDI 2016, we propose to select 1-2 papers annually, restricted
to papers that appeared 10-11 years previously, specifically, between 1st 
October in year (X-11) and 30th Sept in year (X-9). The selection committee for
these awards will be made up of the program chairs / co-chairs of the SOSP/OSDI
conferences which were held within that 10-11 year timeframe.

4) We propose the appointment of a small standing steering committee to advise 
the SIGOPS chair on the Hall of Fame selection and to provide process 
continuity.


Tom Anderson, Peter Druschel, Steve Hand, Jeanna Matthews, Jeff Mogul, Amin Vahdat

(Feedback can be sent to any one of the people above)

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The EuroSys jobs page: A resource for the whole systems community
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If you are searching for a position in the Systems area, take a look
at http://jobs.eurosys.org/ New announcements are posted every day, in
several categories: internships, PhD grants and doctoral programs,
post-docs and permanent positions.

If you want to advertise for systems people, go to
http://jobs.eurosys.org/, and click on the appropriate "Advertise" link.
YOu will be asked to fill in a small form, with a 10-word description
of the job offer, the URL of your lab and the URL of a more detailed
advertisement.

The EuroSys jobs page gets around 10,000 hits a month.