17th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles December 12-15, 1999 Kiawah Island Resort, near Charleston SC http://www.diku.dk/sosp99/ http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/SOSP99/

Authors are invited to submit papers to the 17th SOSP describing original research related to the design, implementation, analysis, and deployment of operating systems. We seek a broad set of high quality, relevant, interesting papers. We are soliciting submissions on a wide range of topics including resource management, security, application support, I/O, networking, user interface support, and OS-related issues for the world-wide web. Our scope spans a wide range of platforms and environments: embedded systems, mobile computers, PCs, workstations, servers, high-performance machines, and production environments -- especially heterogeneous ones.

The SOSP traditions will continue: we will favor work that advances the state of the art into new territory, or continues a significant research dialogue, or reflects on practical applications of the community's knowledge. We are looking for reports on newly-completed work, experience studies, and constructive critiques of prior work, as well as more speculative studies of fresh opportunities.

We anticipate that many contributions will emphasize the OS community's contribution to the closely related fields of computer architecture, data communications, programming systems and languages, and applications. The Symposium attracts attendees with diverse backgrounds, and we explicitly solicit papers not only in the "traditional core" of the OS field, but also in the interface to these areas and others. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

A poster session will provide an outlet for papers of unusual novelty, and we hope to see some more speculative contributions in this category. The tradition of a work-in-progress session will be continued.

Important dates

• Deadline for receipt of submissions: May 17, 1999
• Absolute, final, real deadline for receipt of submissions: May 24, 1999 (23:59 PDT)
• Acceptance notification: Aug 20, 1999
• Deadline for camera-ready final papers: Sep 24, 1999

To submit a paper

Submitted papers must use a typeface no smaller than 10 point, preferably in 2 columns, and be no longer than sixteen (16) 8.5"x11" or A4 pages including everything: references, title page, figures, appendices, etc. Substantially identical papers must not have been published elsewhere or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors must not be identified in the paper itself, either explicitly or by implication (e.g., through the references or acknowledgments). The Program Chair will do something creative (but unpleasant!) to papers violating these rules, and they will not be further considered.

Blind reviewing of full papers will be done by the program committee, assisted by outside referees. Papers will be provisionally accepted subject to revision and approval by a program committee member acting as a shepherd. On acceptance, authors will be encouraged to supply an electronic version for internet access and the conference CD-ROM and will be required to sign an ACM copyright release form. Your submission indicates that you agree to this. Papers will be held in full confidence during the reviewing process.

Questions may be addressed to the Program Chair:

John Wilkes <wilkes@hpl.hp.com>
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, mailstop 1U13
1501 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1126, USA.
Tel: +1 (650) 857-3568

Additional information

• Program committee

  Jean Bacon, Cambridge University
  David Black, EMC Corporation
  Eric Brewer, University of California, Berkeley
  Peter Chen, University of Michigan
  Peter Lee, Carnegie Mellon University
  Jay Lepreau, University of Utah
  Barbara Liskov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Jeff Mogul, Compaq Western Research Laboratory
  Mendel Rosenblum, Stanford University
  Fred Schneider, Cornell University
  Jack Stankovic, University of Virginia
  Chandu Thekkath, Compaq Systems Research Center
  John Wilkes, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (program chair)

• Conference committee

  Treasurer: Cary Gray, Abilene Christian University
  Local arrangements: Ann Chervenak, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Volunteers: Jeff Chase, Duke University
  Registration: Pei Cao, University of Wisconsin
  Publicity: Eric Jul, DIKU, University of Copenhagen
  Scribes: Jay Lepreau, University of Utah
  Scholarships: Guerney Hunt, IBM, and Nina Bhatti, HP Laboratories
  CDROM and Publications: TBD

Papers will be published in the Symposium proceedings, which is distributed at the Symposium and as an issue of Operating Systems Review, the ACM SIGOPS quarterly. A CD-ROM of papers and related material will also be published. We will encourage authors of accepted papers to make source code available to ensure replicable results and to facilitate further research by the community. Papers of particular merit will be forwarded to ACM Transactions on Computer Systems for consideration for publication in a special issue with a rapid-review cycle.

There will be a scholarship program to support student registration and attendance.

Last modified: Thu Apr 29 23:54:29 PDT 1999