CFP: AUUG Winter Conference and Exhibition 1988

[Tim Roper]

		      Call For Papers

			  AUUG '88

	     Australian	Unix systems User Group

	   Winter Conference and Exhibition 1988

	 September 13-15 1988, Melbourne, Australia

Summary

The 1988 Winter	Conference and Exhibition of the  Australian
UNIX* systems User Group will be  held	on  Tuesday  13th  -
Thursday  15th September 1988 at the Southern Cross Hotel in
Melbourne, Australia.  The conference theme is

	    Networking - Linking the UNIX World.

AUUG is	pleased	to announce that  the  guest  speakers	will
include:

  Ken Thompson	      Bell Laboratories
  Michael Lesk	      Bell Communications Research
  Mike Karels	      University of California at Berkeley

Papers

Papers on topics related to computer networks and  UNIX	 are
now invited.  Some suggested topics include but	are not	res-
tricted	to:

o    Operating system and programming language	support	 for
     networks

o    Distributed file systems and their	application

o    Networked window systems

o    ISO/OSI and UNIX

o    Security aspects of computer networks

o    Legal and social aspects of computer networks

o    Protocol specification methods

o    Harnessing	new technologies

o    Network applications under	UNIX

Papers on other	(non networking) aspects of the	UNIX  system
are also sought.

Authors	of papers presented at the conference  will  receive
complimentary  admission  to  the conference and the dinner.
AUUG will again	hold a competition for the best	paper  by  a
full  time student at an Australian educational	institution.
The prize for this  competition	 will  be  an  expense	paid
return	trip  from  within  Australia  to  the conference to
present	the winning paper.  A cash prize in lieu of this may
be paid	at the discretion of AUUG.  Students should indicate
with their abstract whether they wish to enter the  competi-
tion.	AUUG reserves the right	to not award the prize if no
entries	of a suitable standard are forthcoming.

A special issue	of the group's newsletter  AUUGN  containing
the  conference	proceedings will be printed for	distribution
to attendees at	the conference.

Acceptance of papers will be based on an  extended  abstract
and will be subject to receipt of the final paper by the due
date.  Abstracts and final papers should be submitted to the
programme committee chair:

  Tim Roper	    Phone:    International +61	3 5871444
  AUUG 88		      National	       03 5871444
  Labtam Limited    Fax:      International +61	3 5805581
  PO Box 297		      National	       03 5805581
  Mordialloc	    Telex:    LABTAM AA33550
  Victoria 3195	    ACSnet:   timr at labtam.oz
  Australia	    UUCP:     uunet!munnari!labtam.oz!timr
		    ARPA:     timr%labtam.oz at uunet.uu.net

Final papers may be sent via electronic	mail  and  formatted
using  troff  and any of the standard UNIX macro and prepro-
cessor packages	(-ms, -me, -mm,	pic, tbl, eqn) or  with	 TeX
or  LaTeX.   Alternatively, final papers may be	submitted as
camera ready copy on A4	paper with 35mm	margins	left at	 the
top  and bottom.  Intending authors unable to produce either
of these forms are requested to	contact	the  programme	com-
mittee chair.

Timetable

     Receipt of	Extended Abstracts	Monday 13th June
     Letters of	Acceptance Sent		Monday 4th July
     Receipt of	Final Papers		Monday 8th August
     Conference	and Exhibition		13th-15th September

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* UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T in the	USA and
other countries.

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