Programme and list of papers, SIGOPS European Workshop 2000

17.00 - 19.00

Registration

19.00 - 21.00

Dinner

21.00 - 21.30

Registration

21.00 - 23.00

Open Bar

07.00 - 09.00

Breakfast (breakfast is served until 10.00 am)

08.30 - 09.15

Workshop registration

09.15 - 09.30

Welcome

09.30 - 11.00

Session 1: Nomadic computing and reconciliation
Chair: Eric Jul

Application-independent reconciliation for nomadic applications
(ps.file - pdf.file)
Marc Shapiro, Antony Rowstron, Anne-Marie Kermarrec
Microsoft Research, Ltd., Cambridge (UK)

Panasync: Dependency tracking among file copies
(ps.file - pdf.file)
Paulo Sérgio Almeida, Carlos Baquero, Victor Fonte
Minho University, Braga (Portugal)

Context-Aware Multimedia Computing in the Intelligence Hospital
(ps.file - pdf.file)
Scott Mitchel, Mark Spiteri, John Bates, George Couloris
University of Cambridge (UK)

11.00 - 11.30

Break tea/coffee

11.30 - 12.30

Session 2: OS Architecture I
Chair: Andrew Herbert

Towards Robust OSes for Appliances
(ps.file - pdf.file)
Gilles Muller, Charles Consel, Renaud Marlet, Luciano Barreto, Fabrice Mérillon, Laurent Réveillère
IRISA/INRIA (France)

Multiprocessing and Portability for PDAs
(ps.file - pdf.file)
Grzegorz Czajkowski
Sun Microsystems Laboratories (USA)

12.30 - 14.00

Lunch

14.00 - 16.00

Session 3: Energy-Aware OS's
Chair: Jochen Liedtke

Every Joule is Precious: The Case for Revisiting Operating System Design for Energy Efficiency
(ps.file - pdf.file)
Amin Vahdat, Alvin Lebeck, Carla Ellis
Duke University (USA)

The Benefits of Event-Driven Energy Accounting in Power-Sensitive Systems
(ps.file - pdf.file)
Frank Bellosa
University of Erlangen (Germany)

Tetherless Computing - The R2 Low-Power Messaging and Rendezvous Layer
(ps.file - pdf.file)
J.N. Weatherall
University of Cambridge (UK)

Providing an Embedded Software Environment for Wireless PDAs
(ps.file - pdf.file)
Valérie Issarny, Michel Banâtre, Frédéric Weis, Gilbert Cabillic, Paul Couderc, Teresa Higuera, Frédéric Parain
Inria-Rocquencourt, Inria-Irisa (France)

16.45 - 17.00

Departure from Koldingfjord to Trapholt - Museum of Modern Art

17.00 - 18.00

Guided tour & reception at the museum

18.45 - 19.00

Return to Hotel Koldingfjord

19.00 - 21.00

Dinner at Hotel Koldingfjord

21.00 - 23.00

Open bar

07.00 - 09.00

Breakfast (breakfast is served until 10.00 am)

09.00 - 10.30

Session 4: Naming and mobility
Chair: Marc Shapiro

Supporting effective caching in a wide-area distributed location service
(ps.file - pdf.file)
Aline Baggio, Gerco Ballintijn, Maarten can Steen
Vrije Universiteit (The Netherlands)

CarNet: A Scalable Ad Hoc Wireless Network System
(ps.file - pdf.file)
Robert Morris, John Jannotti, Frans Kaashoek, Jinyang Li, Douglas Decouto
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (USA)

17.00 - 18.00

Guided Tour at Koldinghus

18.00 - 21.00

Conference dinner at the basement of the castle

21.00 - 21.15

Return to Hotel Koldingfjord

21.15 - 23.00

Open Bar

07.00 - 09.00

Breakfast (breakfast is served until 10.00 am)

09.00 - 11.00

Session 6: OS Architecture II
Chair: Paulo Guedes

Congestion Prices as Feedback Signals: An Approach to QoS Management
(ps.file - pdf.file)
Rolf Neugebaue, Derek McAuley
University of Glasgow (UK)

Increasing Relevance of Memory Hardware Errors - A Case for Recoverable Programming Models
(ps.file - pdf.file)
Dejan Milojicic, Alan Messer, James Shau, Guangrui Fu, Alberto Munoz
HP Labs (USA)

Easing the management of data-parallel systems via adaptation
(ps.file - pdf.file)
David Petrou, Khalil Amiri, Gregory Ganger, Garth Gibson
Carnegie Mellon University (USA)

The SawMill Multiserver Approach
(ps.file - pdf.file)
Alain Gefflaut, Trent Jaeger, Yoonho Park, Jochen Liedtke, Kevin Elphinstone, Volkmar Uhlig, Jonathon Tidswell, Luke Deller, Lars Reuther
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (USA)

11.00 - 11.10

Break tea/coffee

11.10 - 12.00

Session 7: Breakout session
Theme: What are the next big challenges for the OS?

12.00 - 13.00

Lunch

13.28

Train leaves Kolding for Copenhagen Airport - arrives Copenhagen Airport 16.01