SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting 1-APR-2001 Contents -------- 1. Announcements Calls for papers: *ISSRE 1 Apr 2001 http://www.issre2001.org SRDS 2 Apr 2001 http://srds.cs.umn.edu HOTI 15 Apr 2001 http://www.hoti.org *EASY 16 Apr 2001 http://www.crhc.uiuc.edu/EASY/ *OOOSWS 17 Apr 2001 http://www.di.uniovi.es/ooosws2001/ MMNS 20 Apr 2001 http://www.mnlab.cs.depaul.edu/mmns2001 JSAC 1 May 2001 http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Calls/internet.html ICNP 7 May 2001 http://www.cis.udel.edu/icnp2001/ *Middleware 7 May 2001 http://www.labs.agilent.com/middleware2001/ IDMS 18 May 2001 http://www.idms2001.org *MMCN 4 Jun 2001 http://www.cs.umass.edu/~shenoy/conf/mmcn02/ FAST 13 Jul 2001 http://www.usenix.org/events/fast/ INFOCOM 31 Jul 2001 http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2002 * = new this issue Calls for participation: *Sigmetrics 16-20 Jun 2001 http://www.cs.umd.edu/conference/sigmetrics2001/ *CFSE-2 24-26 Apr 2001 http://www-src.lip6.fr/cfse-2 SOSP 21-24 Oct 2001 http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/sosp01/ 2. Sites-of-the-month Web sites that OS researchers and practitioners may find useful 3. About this list How to subscribe, unsubscribe, and submit requests for announcements More information about SIGOPS can be found at the SIGOPS web page: http://www.acm.org/sigops 1. Announcements ---------------- Title: International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2001) Deadline: 1 April 2001 (Abstracts due) Deadline: 1 May 2001 (Full papers and experience reports due) Conference: 28 Nov - 1 Dec. 2001 Web page: http://www.issre2001.org Synopsis: This years theme: Software Reliability Engineering for Internet and E-commerce. Title: 20th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'2001) Deadline: 2 April 2001 Conference: 28-31 October 2001 Web page: http://srds.cs.umn.edu Synopsis: The objective of this symposium is to provide an effective forum for researchers and practitioners who are interested in distributed systems design and development, particularly with reliability, availability, safety, security, or real-time properties. Title: Hot Interconects Deadline: 15 Apr 2001 Conference: 22-24 Aug 2001 Web page: http://www.hoti.org Summary: Hot Interconnects is an international symposium focusing on the hardware and software architecture and implementation of high-performance interconnects of all scales. Its themes include cross-cutting issues spanning computer systems and networking technologies for providing universal services over packet networks. Title: Workshop on Evaluating and Architecting System dependabilitY (EASY) Deadline: 16 Apr 2001 Conference: 1 July 2001 Web page: http://www.crhc.uiuc.edu/EASY/ The First Workshop on Evaluating and Architecting System dependabilitY (EASY) will bring together researchers from the computer architecture and the dependable systems communities to foster interactive discussion on methods and strategies for developing, performing, and standardizing dependability evaluation for systems Title: 4th ECOOP Workshop on Object-Orientation and Operating Systems ECOOP-OOOSWS'2001 Deadline: 17 April 2001 Conference: 19 June 2001 Web page: http://www.di.uniovi.es/ooosws2001/ Synopsis: The workshop aims to bring together researchers and developers working on object-oriented operating systems and to provide a platform for discussing problems arising from the application of object-orientation to operating systems and solutions for them. Title: Fourth IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS'2001) Deadline: 20 April 2001 Conference: 29 October 2001 - 1 November 2001 Web page: http://www.mnlab.cs.depaul.edu/mmns2001 Synopsis: The IFIP/IEEE MMNS is the premier IEEE/IFIP conferences focusing on management of multimedia networks and services. The conference will bring together researchers and practitioners working in the network and service management and present the latest development in the field. Title: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications INTERNET PROXY SERVICES Deadline: 1 May 2001 Web page: http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Calls/internet.html Summary: Acting as an intermediary between clients and servers, proxies perform a variety of important functions that improve network efficiency and user performance for Web and multimedia transfers. Title: 9th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2001) Deadline: 7 May 2001 Conference: November 11-14, 2001 Web page: http://www.cis.udel.edu/icnp2001/ Synopsis: ICNP deals with all aspects of communication protocols, from design and specification, to verification, testing, performance analysis, and implementation. Protocol functions of interest include network access, switching, routing, flow and congestion control, multimedia transport, wireless and mobile networks, network security, web protocols and applications, electronic commerce, network management, interoperability, internetworking, home computing and networks and digital broadcasting. Title: IFIP/ACM Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms (Middleware 2001) Deadline: 07 May 2001 (abstracts) Deadline: 15 May 2001 (full paper) Conference: 12-16 November 2001 Web page: http://www.labs.agilent.com/middleware2001/ Synopsis: Middleware 2001, like its two predecessors, is a synthesis of the major conferences and workshops in distributed systems platforms and open distributed processing. The focus of Middleware 2001 is on the design, implementation, deployment and evaluation of distributed systems platforms and architectures for future networked environments. Of particular interest is experience with both new and existing architectures and platforms (such as RM-ODP, CORBA, RMI and DCOM) in environments which may include public, private and mobile networks, overlaid wired and wireless technologies, IPv6 and IP multicast, multimedia and real-time information and an increasing volume of WWW and Java traffic. Title: 8th Intl Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems Deadline: 18 May 2001 Conference: 4-7 September 2001 Web page: http://www.idms2001.org Synopsis: The aim of the IDMS series of workshops is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry to provide a forum for discussion, presentation and exploration of technologies and advances in the broad field of interactive distributed multimedia systems. Title: Multimedia Computing and Networking 2002 (MMCN'02) Deadline: 4 June 2001 Conference: 18-25 January 2002 Web page: http://www.cs.umass.edu/~shenoy/conf/mmcn02/ Synopsis: As emerging multimedia technologies set higher performance levels at competitive costs, they are starting to enable and proliferate multimedia solutions in a spectrum of commercial and laboratory projects. The objective of this conference is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners working in all facets of multimedia computing and networking. Title: FAST: File Storage and Technologies Conference Deadline: 13 July 2001. Conference: 28-29 January 28-29, 2002 Web page: http://www.usenix.org/events/fast/ File and storage systems are critical to business and society, holding the "crown jewels" of most Information Age organizations and dictating the performance of most computer systems. FAST brings together the top storage systems researchers and practitioners, providing a premier forum for discussing the design, implementation, and uses of storage systems. Title: IEEE INFOCOM 2002: The Conference on Computer Communications Deadline: 31 July 2001 Conference: 23-27 June 2002 Web page: http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2002 Synopsis: The conference will bring researchers and practitioners of every aspect of data communications and networks together to present the most up-to-date results and achievements in the field. Calls for Participation Title: ACM Sigmetrics 2001 / Performance 2001 Conference: 16-20 June 2001 Web page: http://www.cs.umd.edu/conference/sigmetrics2001/ Title: 18th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP01) Conference: 21-24 October 2001 Web page: http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/sosp01/ Title: Call for participation CFSE-2 (french conference on operating system -- in french) Conference: 24-26 April 2001 Web page: http:://www-src.lip6.fr/cfse-2 2. Sites-of-the-month --------------------- Please contribute. The sites-of-the-month list in the SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting features web sites that OS researchers and practitioners may find useful. This list depends on contributions from members: if you know of a site you think other members should know about, please nominate it by following the instructions at http://www.acm.org/sigops/SOTM/ This month's sites: Name: MIT Gallery of Hacks URL: http://hacks.mit.edu Summary: Happy april 1... 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