USENIX Call for Papers

[Neil Groundwater]

[The following indicates revised due-dates.  It reflects the dates
recently published in ";login:" and in the "Call for Papers" mailed
by USENIX.  Keep those cards and letters coming.  -npg]

                             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/network administration and security
      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 8, 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 March 13, 1989, and final
  camera-ready papers will be due by April 7, 1989.



  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