SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting 1-MAY-2001 Contents -------- 1. Announcements Calls for papers: HOTI 1 May 2001 http://www.hoti.org 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 22 May 2001 http://www.labs.agilent.com/middleware2001/ WC3 8 May 2001 http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~wc3 IDMS 18 May 2001 http://www.idms2001.org MMCN 4 Jun 2001 http://www.cs.umass.edu/~shenoy/conf/mmcn02/ *JPDC 5 Jul 2001 http://www.academicpress.com/www/journal/pc.htm FAST 13 Jul 2001 http://www.usenix.org/events/fast/ INFOCOM 31 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/ 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 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: Hot Interconects Deadline: 1 May 2001 (new deadline) 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: 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) Complete Paper Deadline: 22 May 2001 Conference: 12-16 November 2001 Location: Heidelberg, Germany 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: Workshop on Caching, Coherence, and Consistency (WC3 '01) Deadline for extended abstracts: 8 May 2001 (extended from 1 May) Deadline for accepted full papers: 8 June 2001 (extended from 1 June) Workshop: 17 June 2001 (in conjunction with ICS '01) Web page: http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~wc3 Synopsis: The workshop focuses on three remarkably persistent topics in computer systems research: caching, coherence, and consistency. For a long time these topics were associated with parallel and distributed systems only. More recently, caching, coherence, and consistency issues are being revisited in the context of mobile computing and the WWW. Our goal with this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers from all of these communities to present and exchange ideas on these three topics. 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: 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: 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. 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