SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting 1-June-2001 Contents -------- 1. Announcements Special announcement: *ACM/SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award -- Nominations due 1 Sept 2001 http://www.acm.org/sigops/announce/weiser.html Calls for papers: MMCN 4 Jun 2001 http://www.cs.umass.edu/~shenoy/conf/mmcn02/ *IMeas 29 Jun 2001 http://www.aciri.org/vern/sigcomm-imeas-2001.submit.html JPDC 5 Jul 2001 http://www.academicpress.com/www/journal/pc.htm FAST 13 Jul 2001 http://www.usenix.org/events/fast/ INFOCOM31 Jul 2001 http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2002 COCV 3 Dec 2001 http://sunshine.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~knoop/cocv02.html Calls for participation: Sigmetrics 16-20 Jun 2001 http://www.cs.umd.edu/conference/sigmetrics2001/ *W3C 17 Jun 2001 http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~wc3/ *NOSSDAV 25-26 Jun 2001 http://www.nossdav.org/2001 SOSP 21-24 Oct 2001 http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/sosp01/ * = new this issue # = updated this issue 2. Sites-of-the-month Web sites that OS researchers and practitioners may find useful *Utah Network Emulab (http://www.emulab.net/index.php3) 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 ---------------- Special announcement: Title: Nominations for ACM/SIGOPS Mark Weiser award Deadline: 1 September 2001 Web page: http://www.acm.org/sigops/announce/weiser.html Synopsis: The Mark Weiser Award is given to an individual who has demonstrated creativity and innovation in operating systems research. The recipient must have begun his or her career no earlier than 20 years prior to nomination. The award is named in honor of Mark Weiser, a computing visionary recognized for his research accomplishments during his career at Xerox Parc. The committee will choose the recipient based on: "contributions that are highly creative, innovative, and possibly high-risk, in keeping with the visionary spirit of Mark Weiser." The 2001 recipient will be the first recipient of this award. Calls for papers: 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: Internet Measurement Workshop Deadline: 29 June 2001 (hard deadline) Conference: November 1-2, 2001 Web page: http://www.aciri.org/vern/sigcomm-imeas-2001.submit.html Synopsis: This ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Workshop is a one and a half day event focusing on Internet measurement and analysis. Submissions should contribute to the current understanding of how to collect or analyze Internet measurements, or give insight into how the Internet behaves. Title: Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing Special Issue on Mobile Ad-hoc Networking and Computing Deadline: 5 July 2001 Publication Expected: Spring 2002 Symmary: As opposed to a LAN wired networks, a mobile ad-hoc communication network will have mobile clients as well as mobile servers, without a pre-existing communication infrastructure. The dynamic re-configurability of such a network poses challenges in such diverse areas as routing, bandwidth management, data management, location management, frequent disconnections, mobile file handling, wireless broadcasting, network reliability and security. Papers are sollicited for a special issue of the Journal of Distributed Computing (JPDC) on Mobile Ad-hoc Networking and Computing The purpose of this special issue is to focus on all aspects of mobile ad-hoc 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. Title: COCV 2002: International Workshop on "Compiler Optimization Meets Compiler Verification (COCV 2002)" Deadline: 3 Dec 2001 Conference: 13 April 2001 Web page: http://sunshine.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~knoop/cocv02.html Synopsis: Semantics preservation between source and target program is the commonly accepted minimum requirement to be ensured by compilers. The precise meaning, however, is often only implicit. As a rule of thumb, verification tends to interpret semantics preservation in a very tight sense, not only but also to simplify the verification task. Optimization generally prefers a more liberal view in order to enable more powerful transformations otherwise excluded. Calls for Participation: Title: ACM Sigmetrics 2001 / Performance 2001 Conference: 16-20 June 2001 Web page: http://www.cs.umd.edu/conference/sigmetrics2001/ Sessions: Network routing and forwarding, System performance, Mobile and wireless networks, Network protocols & performance modeling, Memory systems, TCP, Web, Performance analysis techniques and automation, tutorials, and poster sessions. Keynote: The Challenges of Delivering Content on the Internet. Tom Leighton, Akamai. Title: Workshop on Caching, Coherence, and Consistency (WC3 '01) Date: June 17, 2001 Web page: http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~wc3/ Registration and hotel page: http://www.cib.na.cnr.it/ics01/ Title: 11th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV2001) Conference: 25-26 June 2001 Web page: http://www.nossdav.org/2001 Keynote: "Ideas for Next Generation Content Delivery" Peter Danzig Synopsis: The 11th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2001) will bring together participants from academia and industry to present and discuss new ideas and future directions in networking and operating system support for multimedia. Exponential improvements in networking bandwidth, cost, and ubiquity coupled with the growing availability and use of streaming media content pose new networking and operating system research opportunities and challenges at the global systems level. Papers on streaming media, quality of service, multicast, mobile multimedia, Internet telephony, and collaboration will be presented. Title: 18th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP01) Conference: 21-24 October 2001 Web page: http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/sosp01/ 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: Utah Network Emulab URL: http://www.emulab.net/index.php3 Maintainer: Utah Flux research group Summary: Emulab (sometimes called the Utah Network Testbed) is a universally-available "Internet in a room." Several hundred PCs, combined with secure web-based tools, allow you to remotely reserve, configure, and control machines and links down to the hardware level: error models, latency, bandwidth, packet ordering, buffer space all can be user-defined. Even the operating system disk contents can be securely and fully replaced with custom images. Previous months' sites are listed at http://www.acm.org/sigops/SOTM/ 3. About the SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE mailing list ----------------------------------------- The SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE mailing list is intended to provide a low-volume channel that provides operating systems researchers and practitioners with information about upcoming events or other important announcements. In general, a message containing a group of such announcements will be sent about once per month with the subject line "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting". 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