Conference poster
Call for participation

Call for papers
Submitting a paper
Camera-ready instructions

18:30 - 21:00
Reception (buffet dinner) and registration
 
 
 

08:45 - 09:00
Opening remarks by SIGOPS, General and Program Chairs
 

09:00 - 10:30
Session 1: Trust and Dependability
Chair: Maurice Herlihy

"Untrusted Hosts and Confidentiality: Secure Program Partitioning"
Steve Zdancewic, Lantian Zheng, Nathaniel Nystrom, Andrew C. Myers (Cornell University) 

"BASE: Using Abstraction to Improve Fault Tolerance"
Rodrigo Rodrigues, Barbara Liskov (MIT), Miguel Castro (Microsoft Research) 

"The Costs and Limits of Availability for Replicated Services"
Haifeng Yu, Amin Vahdat (Duke University) 
 

10:30 - 11:00
Break
 

11:00 - 12:30
Session 2: Deconstructing the OS
Chair: Mike Jones

"Information and Control in Gray-Box Systems"
Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau (University of Wisconsin, Madison) 

"Bugs as Inconsistent Behavior: A General Approach to Inferring Errors in Systems Code"
Dawson Engler, David Yu Chen, Andy Chou (Stanford University) 

"An Empirical Study of Operating System Errors"
Andy Chou, Jun-Feng Yang, Ben Chelf, Seth Hallem, Dawson Engler (Stanford University) 
 

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
 

14:00 - 15:15
Session 3: Invited Talk
Chair: Satya

"Why Information Security is Hard - An Economic Perspective"
Ross Anderson (Cambridge University)
 

15:15 - 17:30
Session 4: Poster Exhibits and Refreshments
Chair: Andrew Myers
 

18:00 - 20:00
Dinner and presentation of the First ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award
 

20:00 - 21:30
Session 5: Work in Progress
Chair: Margo Seltzer
 
 

08:45 - 10:15
Session 6: Resource Management
Chair: Larry Peterson

"Real-Time Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Low-Power Embedded Operating Systems"
Padmanabhan Pillai, Kang G. Shin (University of Michigan) 

"Managing Energy and Server Resources in Hosting Centres"
Jeffrey S. Chase, Darrell C. Anderson, Prachi N. Thakar, Amin M. Vahdat (Duke University), Ronald P. Doyle (IBM Research Triangle Park) 

"Anticipatory scheduling: A disk scheduling framework to overcome deceptive idleness in synchronous I/O"
Sitaram Iyer, Peter Druschel (Rice University) 
 

10:15 - 10:45
Break
 

10:45 - 12:15
Session 7: Networking
Chair: David Tennenhouse

"Resilient Overlay Networks"
David G. Andersen, Hari Balakrishnan, M. Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris (MIT) 

"Building Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks with Low-Level Naming"
John Heidemann, Fabio Silva, Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Ramesh Govindan (USC/ISI), Deborah Estrin, Deepak Ganesan (UCLA) 

"Mesh Based Content Routing using XML"
Alex C. Snoeren, Kenneth Conley, David K. Gifford (MIT) 
 

12:15 - 13:45
 Lunch
 

13:45 - 15:15
Session 8: File Systems
Chair: Hari Balakrishnan

"A Low-Bandwidth Network File System"
Athicha Muthitacharoen, Benjie Chen (MIT), David Mazieres (NYU) 

"Storage Management and Caching in PAST, A Large-scale, Persistent Peer-to-peer Storage Utility"
Antony Rowstron (Microsoft Research), Peter Druschel (Rice University) 

"Wide-Area Cooperative Storage with CFS"
Frank Dabek, M. Frans Kaashoek, David Karger, Robert Morris (MIT), Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley) 
 

15:15 - 15:45
Break
 

15:45 - 17:00
Session 9: Invited Talk
Chair: Satya

"Software Upgrades in Distributed Systems"
Barbara Liskov (MIT) 
 

19:00 - 21:00
Dinner
 

21:00 - 22:30
SIGOPS Business Meeting
 
 
 

09:00 - 10:00
Session 10: Event-driven Architectures
Chair: Butler Lampson

"Building a Robust Software-Based Router Using Network Processors"
 Tammo Spalink, Scott Karlin, Larry Peterson, Yitzchak Gottlieb (Princeton University) 

"SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services"
Matt Welsh, David Culler, Eric Brewer (UC Berkeley)
 

10:00 - 10:30
Break
 

10:30 - 11:45
Session 11: Invited Talk
Chair: Butler Lampson

"Contrasting the Past - New Contexts, New Arguments"
Roger Needham (Microsoft Research)