SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting (1-Jan-2005) ____________________________________________________________ Contents 1. Announcements SIGCOMM 2005 2005-01-30 http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2005/ EURO-PAR 2005 2005-01-31 http://europar05.di.fct.unl.pt HotOS X 2005-02-01 http://www.usenix.org/events/hotos05 PODC 2005 2005-02-07 http://www.podc.org/podc2005/ * SCAC 2005 2005-02-07 http://research.microsoft.com/ero/scat/cfpapers.aspx * iWCW05 2005-03-08 http://2005.iwcw.org/ SOSP 2005 2005-03-25 http://www.sosp-20.com * SRUTI 2005 2005-03-30 http://www.research.att.com/~bala/sruti FGCS 2005-04-01 http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/staff/lars/fgcs/cfp.htm * DOA 2005 2005-05-24 http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf (* = new this month) 2. Special Announcements SIGOPS European Chapter and Systems Conference Operating Systems Review Online Submission 3. About this list How to subscribe, unsubscribe, and submit requests for announcements. More information about SIGOPS can be found at the SIGOPS webpage: http://www.acm.org/sigops To view the HTML version of this page, go to: http://www.acm.org/sigops/announce/current.html ____________________________________________________________ Announcements EURO-PAR 2005 Title: EURO-PAR 2005 TOPIC 8 - Distributed Systems and Algorithms Deadline: 2005-01-31 Webpage: http://europar05.di.fct.unl.pt Conference: August 30 - September 2, 2005 Contact: europar05@di.fct.unl.pt Location: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Synopsis: Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. Parallel computing is increasingly exposed to the challenges of distributed systems, such as asynchrony, long latencies, network partition, failures, disconnected operation, and protocol standardization. Witness the growth of peer-to-peer computing, the Grid and Web services. This Euro-Par topic provides a forum for research and practice, of interest to both academia and industry, about distributed computing and distributed algorithms. We encourage submission of papers across the whole area. ____________________________________________________________ HotOS X Title: Tenth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS X) Deadline: 2005-02-01 Webpage: http://www.usenix.org/events/hotos05 Conference: June 12–15, 2005 Contact: margo@eecs.harvard.edu Location: Santa Fe, NM, USA Synopsis: The Tenth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems will bring together people conducting innovative work in the systems area for three days of interaction, with all attendees being active participants and contributors throughout the workshop. We request submissions of position papers that propose new directions of research, advocate non-traditional approaches to old (or new) ideas, or generate controversy and discussion. HotOS takes a broad view of what the systems area encompasses and seeks contributions from all fields of systems practice. We particularly encourage contributions containing highly original ideas. ____________________________________________________________ SIGCOMM 2005 Title: ACM SIGCOMM 2005 Abstract: 2005-01-30 Deadline: 2005-02-06 Webpage: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2005/ Conference: August 20-26, 2005 Contact: ramesh@usc.edu Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA Synopsis: The SIGCOMM 2005 Conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of computer and data communication networks. SIGCOMM is a selective conference where papers discuss novel results, designs, or architectural paradigms typically substantiated by implementation, experimentation, analysis or simulation. As in previous years, SIGCOMM 2005 will have a poster session and a student travel grant program. SIGCOMM 2005 will also feature tutorials and workshops for which it is soliciting proposals. Details will be posted on the conference web site as they become available. ____________________________________________________________ PODC 2005 Title: Twenty-Fourth Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2005) Deadline: 2005-02-07 Webpage: http://www.podc.org/podc2005/ Conference: July 17-20, 2005 Contact: aspnes@cs.yale.edu Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Synopsis: PODC continues to broaden the conference, and solicits papers on all areas of distributed systems. We encourage submissions dealing with any aspect of distributed computing, including theory and practice, systems, design, specification, verification, implementation, application, and properties of distributed systems. The common goal is to shed light on the principles of distributed computing. ____________________________________________________________ * NEW THIS MONTH! SCAC 2005 Title: International Forum on "Less is more - Simple Computing in an Age of Complexity" Deadline: 2005-02-07 Webpage: http://research.microsoft.com/ero/scat/cfpapers.aspx Conference: April 26-28, 2005 Contact: camlim@microsoft.com Location: Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK Synopsis: Computers continue to become smaller, cheaper, more powerful, ubiquitous and more diverse and yet for many computing is still associated with the desktop device. As a consequence, the potential of computing to shape, improve and change the social, cultural and creative fabric of society is limited. This Forum seeks to understand how computing will be able to affect the way we all live, work, learn and play. By thinking about computing for all rather than some, the Forum hopes to help define how computing and computers could become a "natural resource."for any and all, wherever they and whatever they do. ____________________________________________________________ * NEW THIS MONTH! iWCW05 Title: 10th International Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution Abstract: 2005-03-08 Deadline: 2005-03-15 Webpage: http://2005.iwcw.org/ Conference: September, 12-14, 2005 Contact: iwcw05@eurecom.fr Location: Sophia Antipolis, French Riviera Synopsis: The International Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution (WCW) serves as the premiere meeting for researchers and practitioners to exchange results and visions on all aspects of content distribution. Building on the success of the previous WCW meetings, WCW10 plans to form a strong technical program that covers the newest and most interesting areas relating to content delivery. We encourage submissions in all caching and content distribution areas, including P2P content distribution, web caching, wireless content delivery, CDNs, multimedia content distribution, etc. Accepted papers will be either published in the LNCS Series of Springer-Verlag or as IEEE Proceedings. ____________________________________________________________ SOSP 2005 Title: 20th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'05) Deadline: 2005-03-25 Webpage: http://www.sosp-20.com Conference: October 23-26, 2005 Contact: program@sosp-20.com Location: The Grand Hotel, Brighton, United Kingdom Synopsis: Authors are invited to submit papers to the 20th SOSP reporting on original research related to the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment of operating systems. We seek submissions of high quality that significantly further the knowledge and understanding of the systems community. In keeping with SOSP tradition, we will favor work that explores new territory, continues a significant research dialog, or reflects on experience with practical applications of the community's knowledge. Papers of particular merit will be forwarded to ACM Transactions on Computer Systems for possible publication in a special issue. ____________________________________________________________ * NEW THIS MONTH! SRUTI 2005 Title: Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet (SRUTI) Workshop Deadline: 2005-03-30 Webpage: http://www.research.att.com/~bala/sruti Conference: July 7-8, 2005 Contact: dk@mit.edu, bala@research.att.com Location: MIT, Stata Center, Cambridge, MA, USA Synopsis: The Internet is under increasing attacks with unwanted traffic in the form of spam, distributed denial of service, virus, worms, etc. Unwanted traffic on the Internet has manifested itself as attacks on many protocols (IP, TCP, DNS, BGP, and HTTP) and popular applications (e.g., Email, Web). SRUTI seeks research on the unwanted traffic problem that looks across the protocol stack, examines attack commonalities, and investigates how various solutions interact and whether they can be combined to increase security. We look for ideas in networking and systems, and insights from other areas such as databases, data mining, and economics. ____________________________________________________________ FGCS Title: FGCS, Intl. Journal of Grid Computing, Special Issue on Fault Tolerance and Failure Recovery Deadline: 2005-04-01 Webpage: http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/staff/lars/fgcs/cfp.htm Conference: April 1, 2005 Contact: baron@cs.tu-berlin.de Location: Synopsis: In order to develop a service-oriented, reliable platform, Grid research needs to tackle the problem of failure detection and recovery which affects the applications running on the Grid as well as any component of the Grid management. Even the underlying resource infrastructure of the Grid may change dynamically during the run-time of an application. Even if the other resources work correctly, network outages may occur and obstruct the execution of a distributed application. In this special issue, we encourage the submission of papers dealing with any aspect of failure detection, propagation, recovery, and fault tolerance strategies for the Grid. ____________________________________________________________ * NEW THIS MONTH! DOA 2005 Title: International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications Abstract: 2005-05-24 Deadline: 2005-05-31 Webpage: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf Conference: October 31- November 4, 2005 Contact: fedconf@cs.rmit.edu.au Location: Agia Napa, Cyprus Synopsis: If you are a researcher or practitioner who is building innovative distributed object systems or applications, consider contributing a practice report or research paper to this event. Existing distributed object systems such as COM, CORBA, and EJB have been generally successful, but we're still evolving them, and applying lessons learned into areas such as Web Services, CORBA Components, J2EE, and .NET. All these approaches aim to provide openness, reliability, scalability, distribution transparency, security, ease of development, and support for heterogeneity between applications and platforms. Significant research and development is required to continue to broaden the applicability of distributed object systems. ____________________________________________________________ SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Title: SIGOPS European Chapter and Systems Conference Summary: This message is to keep you informed of progress towards the foundation of a European chapter of SIGOPS and starting a new Systems conference located in Europe. A group of people met at OSDI and started the formal process of establishing a chapter. The full minutes of the meeting are available at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~smh22/sigops-ec-osdi-minutes.txt. The proposed bylaws are http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~smh22/sigops-ec-bylaws.pdf. The following interim officers were chosen (while awaiting elections, to be held by June 2005): Treasurer: Yolande Berbers (http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~yolande/) Secretary: Anne-Marie Kermarrec (http://www.irisa.fr/paris/pages-perso/Anne-Marie-Kermarrec/welcome.htm) Vice-Chair: Hermann Härtig (http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~haertig/) Chair: Marc Shapiro (http://www-sor.inria.fr/~shapiro/) The new conference is tentatively named International Computer Systems Conference. Papers will be solicited and accepted on the basis of quality first. The CFP will solict and accept first-class papers from everywhere, addressing a diversity of topics beyond core OS and "hot stuff." The PC chair will be Willy Zwaenepoel. We plan to hold the conference in the spring or early summer 2006. If you want to host the conference please contact one of the officers, or the conference chair. Other activities will be planned. For instance we discussed holding a by-invitation workshop sometime in the middle of 2005. Marc ____________________________________________________________ SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Title: Operating Systems Review Online Submission Summary: Submissions to Operating Systems Review (OSR) are now electronic as PDF attachments to electronic mail. Submit to the editor William M. Waite at "William.Waite@colorado.edu". The format should be single spaced, without a separate title page. Text and diagrams must be contained within a 6.5 inch wide by 8.5 inch high (165mm by 216mm) area with at least one inch (25mm) top and side margins, and 1.5 inch (38mm) bottom margin. Except for editorial items, all sources of material appearing in Operating Systems Review will be clearly identified. 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