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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Roden)
Thu Feb 10 18:24:27 1994
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From: diane@usenix.org (Diane DeMartini)
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Subject: Calls for Participation
The following are various calls for participation for various upcoming
events. Your help in posting or routing these to the appropriate groups
or individuals would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You.
Diane S. DeMartini
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ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
8th USENIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION CONFERENCE (LISA VIII)
September 19-23, 1994
Town and Country Hotel
San Diego, California
Co-sponsored by
USENIX, the UNIX and Advanced Computing Systems Professional and
Technical Association, and
SAGE, the System Administrators Guild
IMPORTANT DATES
Refereed Paper Submissions:
Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: May 23, 1994
Notification to Authors: June 24, 1994
Final Papers Receipt Deadline: August 1, 1994
Registration Materials Available:
July, 1994
The annual USENIX Systems Administration Conference provides a forum in
which system administrators meet to share ideas and experiences. A
growing success for the previous seven years, the USENIX Systems
Administration Conference is the only conference which focuses
specifically on the needs of system administrators. Its scope includes
system administrators from sites of all sizes and configurations.
"Automation: Managing the Computer of the 90's" is the theme of this
year's conference. The conference will focus on tools to help system
administrators automate administration tasks and troubleshoot
problems.
TUTORIAL PROGRAM
Monday and Tuesday, September 19-20, 1994
The two-day tutorial program at the conference offers multiple tracks,
with a total of as many as twelve half-day tutorials. Attendees may
move between tracks, choosing the sections of most interest to them.
Tutorials offer expert instruction in areas of interest to system
administrators, novice through experienced. Topics are expected to
include Networking, Advanced System Administration Tools, Solaris & BSD
Administration, Perl Programming, System Security, and more.
TECHNICAL SESSIONS
Wednesday through Friday, September 21-23, 1994
The three days of technical sessions program will include refereed
paper presentations, invited talks, panels, Works-In-Progress (WIP)
reports, and Birds-Of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions. The first track is
dedicated to presentations of referred technical papers. Although
papers of a traditional technical content are very welcome, the Program
Committee is especially seeking papers on areas such as useful tools or
solutions to system administration problems. Papers which are tutorial
in nature would also be appropriate. The second track of the Technical
Sessions will offer invited talks, panels, mini-workshops, and similar
presentations, and we seek proposals for these presentation formats as
well.
Conference Proceedings, containing all refereed papers and materials
from invited talks and workshops, will be distributed to conference
attendees. The Conference Proceedings will also be available from the
USENIX Association following the conference.
VENDOR DISPLAY
Wednesday, September 21, 1994, 3:00 pm. - 9:00 pm Well informed vendor
representatives will demonstrate products and services useful to
systems and network administration at the informal table-top display
accompanying the USENIX Systems Administration Conference. If your
company would like to participate, please contact:
Peter Mui
510-528-8649; FAX
510-548-8649; E-mail: pmui@usenix.org
CONFERENCE TOPICS
The Program Committee invites you to submit to the refereed paper track
of the techical sessions, as well as to submit informal proposals,
ideas, or suggestions for the various presentation formats of the
second track, on any of the following or related topics:
% Automating Administration Tasks
% Distributed System Administration
% Problem Tracking
% Predicting problems before they happen
% System Administration standards
% Differences in OSF, Solaris, and ?
% Case studies - "This is the problem we solved and how we solved it."
% Career paths for system administrators ("Is there life after
support?") % Applications using emerging technology (C++, AI, etc.)
% Performance Monitoring
% Hardware-related topics: all about memory, installing disk drives
% Tools - Useful programs or solutions you have developed and wish to
share
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Program Chair: Dinah McNutt, Tivoli Systems
Tom Christiansen, Consultant
Trent Hein, XOR Network Engineering
William (Bill) LeFebvre, Northwestern University
Pat Parseghian, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Hal Stern, Sun Microsystems
Jeff Tate, Bank of America
Mark Verber, Xerox PARC
Neil Todd, GID Ltd
DATES FOR REFEREED PAPER SUBMISSIONS
Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: May 23, 1994
Notification to Authors: June 24, 1994
Final Papers Receipt Deadline: August 1, 1994
REFEREED PAPER SUBMISSIONS
We strongly urge you to request a sample extended abstract by sending
e-mail to sample-abstract@usenix.org or telephoning +1 (510) 528-8649.
The Program Committee requires that an extended abstract be submitted
for the paper selection process. (Full-papers are not acceptable for
this stage; if you send a full paper, you must also include an extended
abstract for evaluation.) Your extended abstract should consist of a
traditional abstract which summarizes the content/ideas of the entire
paper, followed by a skeletal outline of the full paper.
Submissions will be judged on the following criteria: relevancy of
topic, quality of work, and quality of the written submission.
Note that the USENIX conference, like most conferences and journals,
considers it unethical to submit the same paper simultaneously to more
than one conference or publication or to submit a paper that has been
or will be published elsewhere.
Authors of an accepted paper will present their paper at the conference
and provide a final paper for publication in the Conference
Proceedings. Final papers are limited to 20 pages, including diagrams,
figures and appendix and must be in troff or ASCII format. We will
supply you with instructions and troff macros. Papers should include a
brief description of the site (if applicable).
WHERE TO SEND SUBMISSIONS
For submission to the refereed paper track, please send submissions by
at least two of the following methods: % (Preferred method) electronic
(nroff/troff or ASCII) submission of the extended abstract; e-mail to:
dinah@usenix.org
% FAX to the USENIX Association +1 (510) 548-5738
% Mail to: LISA 8 Conference, USENIX Association, 2560 Ninth St.,
Suite 215, Berkeley, CA USA 94710
For submission of all proposals other than extended abstracts of
refereed papers, and for inquiries regarding the content of the
conference program, contact the Program Chair:
Dinah McNutt, Tivoli
Systems, P.O. Box 202253,
Austin, TX USA 78720-2253, +1 (512) 267-9381, E-mail: dinah@usenix.org.
FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Materials containing all details of the symposium program, symposium
registration fees and forms, and hotel discount and reservation
information will be mailed and posted to the net beginning July 1994.
If you wish to receive registration materials, please contact:
USENIX Conference Office
22672 Lambert Street, Suite 613
Lake Forest, CA USA 92630
+1 (714) 588-8649; FAX: +1 (714) 588-9706
E-mail: conference@usenix.org
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ANNOUNCEMENT/CALL FOR PAPERS
1994 USENIX SYMPOSIUM ON HIGH-SPEED NETWORKING
August 1-2, 1994
Claremont Hotel & Resort
Oakland, California
The goals of this symposium are to encourage the UNIX and high-speed
networking communities to commingle, to examine the issues and trends
in high-speed networking, and to explore the impact of high-speed
networks on systems and applications design.
High-speed, high-capacity networks promise to change the way we
compute, much as faster processors and large memories have done in the
past. Fast, wide-area networks pose fresh challenges even for mature
operating systems, such as UNIX. How will these innovations shape the
design of future operating systems? Can we devise applications that
fully (and productively) consume the bandwidth at our disposal?
SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
Monday, August 1
9 am-5 pm Keynote address, followed by technical sessions
6-8 pm Reception
8-10 pm Birds-of-a-Feather sessions
Tuesday, August 2
9 am-5 pm Technical sessions
FIELD TRIP
Wednesday, August 3
Join us for visits to two high-speed networking testbeds, XUNET/BLANCA
and CalREN, in Berkeley
This single-track symposium offers two days of technical presentations
(followed by a field trip on the third day). Formally reviewed papers
will be presented and published in the Symposium Proceedings. A copy
of the Proceedings will be distributed to all attendees; additional
copies may be purchased from the USENIX Association.
SYMPOSIUM TOPICS
We seek presentations of original, previously unpublished work on these
(and related) topics:
+ Network architectures
+ Operating system support for high-speed networks
+ Protocols
+ Performance
+ Network management
+ Applications
+ Practical experiences
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Program Chair: Pat Parseghian, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Bill Johnston, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Tom Lyon, Sun Microsystems
Jeffrey Mogul, Digital Equipment Corporation Western Research Laboratory
Gerald Neufeld, University of British Columbia Lixia Zhang, Xerox PARC
DATES FOR REFEREED PAPER SUBMISSIONS
Extended abstracts due: May 2, 1994
Notification to authors: May 16, 1994
Camera-ready final papers due: June 20, 1994
Registration Materials Available: June 1994
REFEREED PAPER SUBMISSIONS
If you are interested in presenting your work at the symposium, please
submit an extended abstract as described below. The extended abstract
should represent the final paper in "short form." Its object is to
persuade the Program Committee that you will deliver a good 20-25
minute presentation and final paper. The Committee needs to know that
authors:
- are tackling a significant problem.
- are familiar with the current literature about the problem.
- have devised an original solution.
- have implemented the solution and, if appropriate, have
characterized its performance.
- have drawn appropriate conclusions about what they have learned
and why it is important.
Note that the Program Committee considers it unethical to submit the
same paper simultaneously to more than one conference or publication,
or to submit a paper that has been or will be published elsewhere,
withough disclosing this information with the submission.
If your paper is accepted, you are expected to provide a full paper in
camera-ready form for publication in the Proceedings and to present
your work at the Symposium.
HOW TO SUBMIT
A typical extended abstract is roughly 2500 words (5 pages). Indicate
clearly whether the paper represents a design, an implementation or a
system that is in wide use. You are encouraged to include references.
Supporting material may be in note or outline form. If you wish, you
may supplement the extended abstract with a copy of a full paper.
Please submit one copy of an extended abstract using at least two of the
following methods:
+ E-mail (preferred method) to: net94papers@usenix.org
+ Mail to: Pat Parseghian, Program Chair, AT&T Bell
Laboratories, Room 2C-472, 600 Mountain Avenue, PO Box
636, Murray Hill NJ USA 07974-0636
+ FAX to: Pat Parseghian +1 (908) 582-5857
Please, with your submission, include the following information about
the author(s):
+ Name (indicate which author will serve as the contact)
+ Affiliation
+ Daytime telephone
+ Postal address
+ E-mail address
+ FAX number
FOR MORE PROGRAM INFORMATION
Refer questions about refereed paper submissions and other program
concerns to the Program Chair:
Pat Parseghian
Telephone: +1 (908) 582-4229
E-mail: pep@research.att.com
FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Materials containing full details of the symposium program, symposium
registration fees and forms, and hotel discount and reservation
information will be available early June 1994. If you wish to receive
the registration materials, please contact:
USENIX Conference Office
22672 Lambert Street, Suite 613
Lake Forest, CA USA 92630
Telephone: +1 (714) 588-8649
FAX: +1 (714) 588-9706
E-mail: conference@usenix.org
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USENIX SYMPOSIUM ON VERY HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES (VHLL)
October 26-28, 1994
El Dorado Hotel
Santa Fe, New Mexico
DATES FOR REFEREED PAPER SUBMISSIONS:
Extended Abstracts Due: June 30, 1994
Notifications to Authors: July 27, 1994
Final Papers Due: Sept 12, 1994
REGISTRATION MATERIALS AVAILABLE: August, 1994
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Program Chair: Tom Christiansen, Consultant
Stephen C. Johnson, Melismatic Software
Brian Kernighan, AT&T Bell Laboratories
John Ousterhout, University of California, Berkeley
Henry Spencer, University of Toronto
Using very high level languages (VHLLs), programmers can assemble
entire applications from large building blocks in just a small fraction
of the time required if conventional programming strategies were used.
These languages allow programmers to take advantage of increasingly
available hardware cycles, trading cheap machine time for costly
programmer time. Thus, VHLLs offer one of the most promising
approaches toward radically improving programmer productivity.
UNIX has long supported very high level languages: consider awk and the
various shells. Often programmers create what are essentially new
little languages whenever a problem appears of sufficient complexity to
merit a higher level programming interface -- consider sendmail.cf. In
recent years many UNIX programmers have been turning to VHLLs for both
rapid prototypes and complete applications. They take advantage of
these languages' higher level of abstraction to complete projects more
rapidly and more easily than they could have using lower-level languages.
Some VHLLs such as TCL, Perl, Icon, and REXX have gained widespread use
and popularity. Many others never see the public light. Some of these
languages are special purpose, addressing a limited-problem domain
(such as graphics, text processing, or mathematical modeling) using
powerful primitives created for that specific problem. Other VHLLs are
more general purpose in nature, but still much higher level than most
traditional compiled languages. Some are stand-alone languages, while
others are designed to be embedded in other programs. Many are
interpreted, although some are compiled to native machine code; a few
occupy a gap between both worlds.
SYMPOSIUM SCOPE AND FORMAT
The USENIX Symposium on Very High Level Languages will spotlight these
languages and their usefulness in leveraging certain kinds of tasks.
The Symposium will introduce participants to concepts and approaches
they haven't examined yet, and publish original work in these areas.
Programmers will learn about the relative strengths and weaknesses and
extract the key concepts that run through the various languages
presented.
The USENIX Symposium on Very High Level Languages will run three days:
* Wednesday, October 26, will feature hour-long overviews by invited
speakers of some of the more popular VHLLs in use today, such as TCL,
Perl, Icon, and REXX.
* Thursday and Friday, October 27-28, will consist of refereed papers,
tutorial-style invited talks on related topics, and panel discussions.
* Birds-of-a-Feather sessions will be held Wednesday and Thursday
evenings, and a Reception will be held Thursday evening.
Papers on brand-new languages, on existing languages about which little
or nothing has been published, on applications that use these languages
in creative fashions not yet seen, and on experiences at extending
existing languages (for example, adding windowing capabilities to awk)
are all welcome. Papers should address designing, building, testing,
debugging, and measuring the performance and usability of these
languages, as well as reference and compare related work in the area.
Mention both advantages and disadvantages of the approach selected.
For applications using these languages, compare and contrast the
design, development, and support effort that were required with this
approach versus one using a lower-level language. Good papers will be
of interest to people who use other VHLLs than the one described in the
paper. For example, a paper describing a system built in a particular
language will be much more interesting if it highlights some important
feature of the language or problems with the language, or some issue
relevant to VHLLs in general.
HOW TO SUBMIT TO THE SYMPOSIUM:
Persons interested in participating in panel discussions or organizing
Birds-of-a-Feather sessions should contact the program chair as
indicated below.
Submissions of papers to be presented at the Symposium and published in
the Symposium Proceedings must be in the form of an extended abstract.
The extended abstract should be1500-2500 words (3-5 pages) and must be
received by June 30, 1994. (If you do send a full paper, you must also
include an extended abstract for evaluation.) The extended abstract
should represent your paper in short form. Its purpose is to convince
the program committee that a good paper and presentation will result.
You should show that you are addressing an interesting problem, have
surveyed existing solutions, have devised an innovative, original
solution, and have drawn appropriate conclusions about what has been
learned.
All submissions should indicate the electronic mail address and
telephone number of a principal contact. Authors will be notified of
acceptance by July 27, 1994, and will be provided with guidelines for
preparing camera-ready copy of the final paper. The final paper must
be received no later than September 12, 1994. Note that the USENIX
conference, like most conferences and journals, considers it unethical
to submit the same paper simultaneously to more than one conference or
publication or to submit a paper that has been or will be published
elsewhere.
Please submit your extended abstracts to the program chair as follows.
EMAILED SUBMISSIONS (PREFERRED): must be in ASCII, troff (with the -me
macro set or raw troff preferred), or Postscript form; send to
tchrist@usenix.org
HARD COPY SUBMISSIONS:
* via FAX to +1 (303) 442-7177 (Please refer to Tom Christiansen)
* via postal mail, please submit 6 paper copies to:
Tom Christiansen
USENIX VHLL Symposium
2227 Canyon Blvd, #262
Boulder CO 80302
FOR PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION:
Materials containing full details of the symposium program,
registration fees and forms, and hotel discount and reservation
information will be mailed and posted to the net in August 1994. If
you wish to receive these materials, please contact:
USENIX Conference Office
22672 Lambert Street, Suite 613
Lake Forest, CA USA 92630
+1 (714) 588-8649; FAX: +1 (714) 588-9706
Internet: conference@usenix.org
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