USENIX in Baltimore, June 1989, Call for Papers

[Neil Groundwater]

                               CALL FOR PAPERS

                        Summer 1989 USENIX Conference

                       June 12-16, Baltimore, Maryland

    Papers in all areas of UNIX(tm)-related research and development are
    solicited for formal review for the technical program of the 1989
    Summer USENIX Conference.  Accepted papers will be presented during
    the three days of technical sessions at the conference and published
    in the conference proceedings.  The technical program is considered
    the leading forum for the presentation of new developments in work
    related to or based on the UNIX operating system.

    Appropriate topics for technical presentations include, but are not
    limited to:

        Performance:
            Kernel enhancements
            Compute and file servers
            Scaling issues resulting from more MIPS
        Filesystems: CDROM, WORM, network, archival
        Networks: WAN, LAN, UUCP, OSI, distributed services
        User interfaces
        High reliability/availability, fault-tolerance
        Heterogeneous environments: DOS/UNIX migration, mainframes
        Media: graphics, video, audio, art, education
        System and network administration
        Trends:
            Lightweight processes
            Neural networks
            Object-oriented extensions

    All submissions should describe new and interesting work.  Like recent
    technical programs for USENIX conferences, the Baltimore conference is
    requiring the submission of full papers rather than extended
    abstracts.  The review and production cycle will not allow time for
    rewrite and re-review.  (Time is, however, scheduled for authors of
    accepted papers to perform minor revisions.)  Acceptance or rejection
    of a paper will be based solely on the work as submitted.

    To be considered for the conference, a paper should include an
    abstract of 100 to 300 words, a discussion of how the reported results
    relate to other work, illustrative figures, and citations to relevant
    literature.  The paper should present sufficient detail of the work
    plus appropriate background or references to enable the reviewers to
    perform a fair comparison with other work submitted for the
    conference.  Full papers should be 8-12 single spaced typeset pages.
    All final papers must be submitted in a format suitable for camera-
    ready copy.  For authors that do not have access to a suitable output
    device, facilities will be provided.

    An abstract should be submitted as soon as possible.  Full details and
    requirements will be supplied to prospective authors.  Copies of the
    full manuscript should be submitted by ordinary and electronic mail to
    the Program Chairman.  Electronic submissions are strongly
    recommended; "troff -ms" if possible.

    Four copies and one electronic copy of each submitted paper should be
    received by February 17, 1989; this is an absolute deadline.  Papers
    not received by this date will not be considered.  Papers which
    clearly do not meet USENIX's standards for applicability, originality,
    completeness, or page length may be rejected without review.
    Acceptance notification will be made by April 3, 1989, and final
    camera-ready papers will be due by April 24, 1989.

    Persons interested in serving as referees are asked to send a note to
    the Program Chairman with a list of technical interests.


    Neil Groundwater
    Baltimore USENIX Technical Program
    Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    8219 Leesburg Pike  #700
    Vienna, Virginia 22180

    phone: (703) 883-1221

    Abstracts, submissions, and questions:
    usenet: {ucbvax,decvax,decwrl,seismo}!sun!balt-usenix
    internet: balt-usenix at sun.com