Call for papers: 17th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles

Note: Submission due in one month

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* Call for papers: 17th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles *
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* December 12-15, 1999                                                * 
* Kiawah Island Resort, near Charleston SC                            * 
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* http://www.diku.dk/sosp99                                           *
* http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/SOSP99                                  *
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General chair:  David Kotz, Dartmouth College

Program chair:  John Wilkes, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Sponsored by:   ACM SIGOPS

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:

    High-availability systems   OS structure and organization
    OS performance evaluation   Security
    File and storage systems    Processor architecture / OS interactions
    I/O architectures           Networks and communications
    Low-power systems           Mobile computing
    Parallel systems            Ubiquitous computing
    Heterogeneous systems       Multimedia support
    Distributed systems         Database and transaction support
    Real-time systems           World-wide web support
    High-performance systems    Commercial deployment experience

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
        Acceptance notification:                Aug 20, 1999 
        Deadline for camera-ready final papers: Sep 24, 1999

More information can be found at the conference's web pages:
        http://www.diku.dk/sosp99
        http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/SOSP99