Linux Expo 1999 Call for Papers
May 18 – 22, 1999
Raleigh, North Carolina
DATES FOR REFEREED PAPER SUBMISSIONS
- Extended abstracts and/or full papers due: December 1,
1998 - Notification to authors: January 15, 1999
- Full papers due for final review: February 15, 1999
- Camera-ready full papers due: March 1, 1999
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Marc Ewing, Red Hat Advanced Laboratories
Richard Henderson, Cygnus Solutions
Dirk Hohndel, S.u.S.E. GmbH
Larry McVoy, BitMover (Chair)
Carl Staelin, Hewlett-Packard Labs
Theodore Ts’o, MIT
Stephen Tweedie, Red Hat Software
Victor Yodaiken, New Mexico Institute of Technology
URL
For the time being, find this notice at http://www.bitmover.com/linuxexpo
We’ll move it to linuxexpo.org
soon.
OVERVIEW
The goal of the technical track of Linux Expo is to bring
together engineers and researchers doing innovative work associated
with Linux. This will be a 4 day conference:
Tuesday 18th Pre-registration for tutorial attendees 6-9pm
Wednesday 19th Tutorials and conference registration 9-6pm
Welcome Reception 6-7pm (outdoors in mall weather
permitting)
Exhibitor set-up 3-9pm
Thursday 20th Conference 9-5pm (registrations from 8am)
Exhibits 10.30am-5pm
Free night
Friday 21st Conference (as Thursday)
Exhibits ditto
Reception in exhibit hall area 5-6.30pm
Saturday 22nd Conference 10am-4pm
Exhibits 10am-2pm
TUTORIALS
May 19th, 1999
Tutorials for both technical staff and managers will provide
immediately useful, practical information on topics such as
programming, system administration, and security. If you are
interested in proposing a tutorial, contact the tutorial
coordinator, Marc Ewing marc@redhat.com>.
TECHNICAL SESSIONS
May 20th-22nd, 1999
The explosion of interest in Linux as a viable alternative to
both existing Unix systems and Microsoft operating systems has led
to the development of new features as well as refinements of
existing features.
We are interested in papers covering any area of Linux related
software, but we encourage authors to submit papers in the areas
of
- Linux kernel enhancements, status, future plans
- Databases on Linux
- Linux clustering
- High availability on Linux
- Performance of Linux and/or applications on Linux
- Innovations in user interface on Linux
- Linux applications, both Open Source ™ and commercial
Besides mature work, we encourage submissions describing
exceptionally promising prototypes, or enlightening negative
results.
Where appropriate, authors will be able to demonstrate their
applications during their presentation using computers linked to
the audio-visual system and the Internet. Also, space will be
available to authors in the vendor display room to demonstrate
their work outside of their presentation in a more relaxed and
interactive environment.
WHAT TO SUBMIT
Authors must submit an extended abstract (or a full paper, if
available) by December 1, 1998. This should be 5-7 pages long or
about 2500-3500 words, not counting references and figures. The
full papers resulting from accepted abstracts will go through an
editorial review cycle with a member of the program committee, and
should end up about 8-10 pages long. Very similar papers must not
have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
The object of an extended abstract is to convince the reviewers
that a good paper and a 25-minute presentation will result. It is
important to identify what has been accomplished, to explain why it
is significant, and to compare with prior work in the field,
demonstrating knowledge of the relevant literature. The extended
abstract should represent the paper in “short form.” It must
include the abstract as it will appear in the final paper. The body
of the extended abstract should be complete paragraphs, not just an
outline of the paper. (Sections present in the full paper but
omitted from the abstract may be summarized in terse form.) Authors
should include full references, figures when available, and as is
usually appropriate, performance data. Such data also help indicate
the status of the implementation, often a crucial issue. The
abstract will be judged on significance, originality, clarity,
relevance, and correctness. (All submissions will be held in the
highest confidence prior to publication. Papers accompanied by so
called “non-disclosure agreement” forms are not acceptable and will
be returned unread.)
SUBMISSION FORMAT
In the interests of having a uniform look and feel, we are
requesting that submissions be in “groff -mgs” source format. This
will allow us to format all of the papers together, adding a table
of contents, page numbers and headers to the proceedings.
Example papers demonstrating and explaining the format, how to
do graphs, how to include postscript figures, etc., will be made
available. If you’ve never heard of groff, fear not, both the
program chair and the keynote speaker are old time roff hackers and
will be available for assistance.
If you would like to receive detailed guidelines for submission
and examples of extended abstracts, you may send email to: linuxexpo@bitmover.com.
EDITORIAL, FORMATTING HELP
The program committee will provide help to authors if needed.
The committee has extensive experience in programming and in
publishing, so if you have a good idea but don’t know how to write
it up, contact us.
For the formatting, an example paper with formatting
instructions will be published on the web at http://www.bitmover.com/linuxexpo/
WHERE TO SUBMIT
Please send one copy of an extended abstract to the program
chair via email. All submissions will be acknowledged.
REVIEW PROCESS
Linux Expo is adopting a policy of blind review to ensure
fairness in the review process. Author names and affiliations will
be removed from the papers. To facilitate this, email the groff
source to papers only to
WORK-IN-PROGRESS REPORTS
Do you have interesting work you would like to share, or a cool
idea that is not ready to be published? Work-in-progress reports
are for you! Work-in-progress reports, scheduled during the
technical sessions, introduce new or ongoing work. The Linux Expo
audience provides valuable discussion and feedback. We are
particularly interested in presentations of student work. To
schedule your report, please contact the Works-in-progress
coordinator Marc Ewing, marc@redhat.com.
VENDOR DISPLAY AND DEMONSTRATIONS
Linux Expo will feature both vendor displays and demonstrations
of technologies and systems presented in some of the refereed
presentations. Authors will be able to demonstrate their work in a
more relaxed and interactive environment. Vendors will demonstrate
the technical innovations which distinguish their products, and
attendees can “kick the tires” and play with the systems.
We invite you to take part in the Vendor Display.
Authors of papers interested in offering a demonstration, please
contact:
Yvonne Hart
yvonne@linuxexpo.org
(919) 942-3318
Fax: (919) 933-9233
REGISTRATION MATERIALS
Materials containing all details of the technical and tutorial
programs, registration fees and forms, and hotel information will
be mailed as soon as possible. If you wish to receive the
registration materials, please contact Linux Expo at:
Yvonne Hart
yvonne@linuxexpo.org
(919) 942-3318
Fax: (919) 933-9233
Thanks and see you at LinuxExpo ’99!