CALL FOR PAPERS 18TH ACM SYMPOSIUM ON OPERATING SYSTEMS PRINCIPLES October 21-24, 2001 Chateau Lake Louise, Banff, Canada Conference web site: http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/sosp01/ Sponsored by ACM SIGOPS General chair Keith Marzullo, UC San Diego marzullo@cs.ucsd.edu, (858)-534-3729 Program chair M. Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University satya@cs.cmu.edu, (412)-268-3743 Authors are invited to submit papers to the 18th SOSP reporting on original research related to the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment of operating systems. We seek submissions of high quality that significantly further the knowledge and understanding of the systems community. In keeping with SOSP tradition, we will favor work that explores new territory, continues a significant research dialog, or reflects on experience with practical applications of the community's knowledge. Papers of particular merit will be forwarded to ACM Transactions on Computer Systems for possible publication in a special issue. The symposium attracts attendees with diverse backgrounds. We solicit papers in the traditional core of the OS field, as well as in the interfaces to areas such as computer architecture, networking, programming languages, and databases. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: High availability Mobile computing Scalability and performance Ubiquitous computing Security Power management File systems Multimedia databases I/O architectures Web support Networks and communications Multimedia systems Transactional support Empirical studies Submissions will be done electronically. Detailed instructions for the submission process can be found at the conference web site. Submitted papers must be no longer than fourteen (14) 8.5"x11" or A4 pages in a typeface no smaller than 10 point. The page limit includes everything: references, title page, figures, appendices, etc. Additional formatting guidelines for submissions can be found on the web page. Substantially identical papers must not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors must not be identified in the submissions, either explicitly or by implication (e.g., through the references or acknowledgments). Submissions violating these rules or the formatting guidelines on the web page will not be considered for publication. Blind reviewing of full papers will be done by the program committee, assisted by outside referees. Papers will be provisionally accepted subject to revision and approval by a program committee member acting as a shepherd. On acceptance, authors will be required to sign an ACM copyright release form. Your submission indicates that you agree to this. Papers will be held in full confidence during the reviewing process. Authors of accepted papers will be encouraged to supply electronic versions of their papers,as well as source code and raw data to help others replicate and better understand their results. These will be disseminated through the Internet. There will be a scholarship program to support student registration and attendance. Details can be found on the web site. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline (HARD, NO EXTENSIONS) March 26, 2001 Acceptance notification June 18, 2001 Camera-ready deadline July 30, 2001 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Hari Balakrishnan, MIT Brian Noble, Michigan Maurice Herlihy, Brown Larry Peterson, Princeton Mike Jones, Microsoft M. Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon Monica Lam, Stanford Margo Seltzer, Harvard Butler Lampson, Microsoft David Tennenhouse, Intel Jochen Liedtke, Karlsruhe John Zahorjan, Washington Andrew Myers, Cornell ORGANIZING CHAIRS Local arrangements Norm Hutchinson, British Columbia Publication Greg Ganger, Carnegie Mellon Finance Tom Bressoud, Lucent Registration Geoff Voelker, UC San Diego Publicity Lorenzo Alvisi, UT Austin Scribes and Volunteers Michael Feeley, British Columbia Scholarships Marvin Theimer, Microsoft CD ROM Christopher Small, Osprey Partners LLC