Summer USENIX call for papers

[Jay Lepreau]

Greetings.

                               CALL FOR PAPERS

                        SUMMER 1984 USENIX CONFERENCE
                    JUNE 12-15, HOTEL UTAH, SALT LAKE CITY

                            Abstracts due March 26

Conference Chair:             Program Committee:
     Randy Frank                   Jay Lepreau     Univ of Utah, Co-Chair
     University of Utah            Spencer Thomas  Univ of Utah, Co-Chair
                                   Steve Bellovin  Bell Labs
Conference Host:                   Kirk Mckusick   UC Berkeley
     Computer Science Department   Mike Muuss      Ballistics Research Lab
     University of Utah            Dennis Ritchie  Bell Labs

Aspects of this conference which may differ from previous ones include:
   - It is sponsored only by USENIX.
   - We plan to publish a proceedings for distribution at the opening of
     the conference.
   - We are soliciting formal panels as well as papers.
   - We plan to schedule some small semi-formal workshops during the day,
     and also solicit suggestions for those.  They are expected to be
     somewhat more formal ``Birds of a Feather'' sessions.
   - Papers in the ``product announcement'' genre will not be accepted,
     and talks of that nature will not be tolerated by the session chairs.


Suggested topic areas include, but are not limited to:
   - Hardware: evaluations, modifications for the UNIX(UNIX is a trademark
     of Bell Laboratories) Operating System, design issues for supporting
     the UNIX OS.
   - Kernel enhancement, performance, real time modifications
   - Networks and distributed processing
   - UNIX ports and emulations with new aspects
   - Operating systems architecture: alternate OS's, cacheing methods for
     hierarchical memories, programming language aspects.
   - Programming languages and environments
   - Mail, news and uucp: transport systems, addressing, routing, user
     interfaces, USENET problems and solutions.
   - Papers involving novel computer graphics or computer aided design
     topics are specially solicited for a computer graphics session.
   - Applications: CAI, System management and monitoring
   - 4.2 BSD, System V, 2.9 BSD, GNU: experiences, comparisons, critiques.
   - Standards and portability: kernel, commands, library, and languages.
   - Security (sic)
   - Unix directions

Abstracts of papers should explain what is new and interesting about the work
and should be between 300 and 1000 words.  Papers previously presented at
other conferences will not be accepted.  Proposals for panels and workshops
should explain the proposed thrust of the discussion, and contain suggestions
for at least two members.  All submissions must include:
     Title of presentation, panel, or workshop
     Full name of author
     Institution or company
     U.S. mail address
     Network address, if available
     Phone number
     Special audio-visual requirements

Since the program committee plans to produce a proceedings of conference
papers for distribution at the conference opening, the following schedule must
be adhered to:
     Abstracts due:                March 26, 1984
     Notification of acceptance:   April 16, 1984
     Complete papers due:          May 14, 1984

Papers containing no figures may be submitted electronically, with prior
arrangement.  Both Scribe and troff will be available, with output to a Xerox
2700 or Versatec.  There may be a charge associated with this service; contact
the program committee chairs for more information.

Please be sure that you have the approval of your organization to present and
publish your paper before submitting an abstract.  A USENIX release form will
be distributed with the notice of acceptance, and final papers must be
submitted with the completed form in order for us to be able to publish it.
The schedule is tight, and does not allow for delays caused by inability to
get release approvals.  All hard-copy paper submissions must be camera-ready;
matrix printer output does not reproduce acceptably, and cannot be accepted.

Abstracts should be submitted to the program chairs at the address below,
either by U.S. or electronic mail.  Due to the vagaries of the latter we will
immediately acknowledge all electronic mail submissions, so try again, or
call, if you do not soon receive an ACK.

        {harpo,hplabs}!utah-cs!usenix or usenix at utah-cs.ARPA

        Jay Lepreau or Spencer Thomas
        Computer Science Dept.
        University of Utah
        Salt Lake City, UT  84112

        (801) 582-7214, 581-3095, 581-4285