From: carolyn@usenix (Carolyn Carr)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: USENIX Mach Symposium: Call for Papers
Keywords: USENIX Association
Date: 19 Nov 92 02:42:01 GMT
Expires: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 08:00:00 GMT
Organization: Usenix Association Office, Berkeley


	             Call for Papers

		   USENIX Mach Symposium

                        Santa Fe, NM
                     April 19-21, 1993

Extended Abstracts Due: December 4, 1992

Background

The use and influence of Mach on the operating systems community
continues to grow.  From its beginnings as a small research project,
Mach has spread to become the basis for commercial products from
a variety of vendors and a key component of innovative research
efforts in both academic and industrial environments.  At the same time,
research and development continue to evolve Mach itself.  The
community of researchers and developers working with Mach is
proving to be a very productive source of innovative systems.

Activity in this field has been sufficiently wide-spread that the
USENIX Association is pleased to once again sponsor a Mach symposium
to  bring together researchers, engineers, vendors and users of Mach
systems.  We will encourage discussion of all past and present
Mach-related research, development, production and applications
activities.

Symposium Overview

The symposium will be spread over three days.  The first day will be
devoted to tutorials on Mach 3.0, and will include both
introduction/overview and advanced programming tracks.  These
tutorials should be of interest to both those desiring an
introduction to Mach, and programmers interested in learning
how to take better advantage of Mach features.  The following two
days will concentrate on presentation of refereed papers on past and
present Mach-related work.  Long breaks between presentations will
provide opportunities for informal discussion.  Some time will be
available for descriptions of work in progress.

Submissions

Extended abstracts of 1500-2500 words (9000-15000 bytes or 3-5 pages)
should be sent to David Black at the address below (those submitting
hardcopy abstracts must send five copies).  Shorter abstracts run a
significant risk of rejection as there will be little on which the
program committee can base an opinion.  In addition to the extended
abstract, authors must also supply an outline of the full paper and
an estimate of its length.

A good extended abstract will contain the following information in
one form or another:

Abstract	100-300 words (half a page) included verbatim in the
		final paper

Introduction	The problem; its importance; previous work

Solution	Issues, decisions, tradeoffs, rationale.
		Implementation details.

Evaluation	Performance results; effort required; lessons
		learned.

Conclusion

The extended abstract allows the program committee to analyze the
content of the proposed paper.  An outline lists the headings, major
points and many minor points for each section of the actual paper.
The outline should provide an idea of the form and style of your
paper.  This layout is not cast in concrete; just submit enough
material to convince the committee that they want to accept the
paper!

Longer abstracts (up to and and including full papers) will be
reviewed; the program committee appreciates any additional material
that makes it easier to predict the content, organization, and
style of the final paper.  Authors should exercise appropriate
restraint in determining the amount of material to submit.

The submission package must include:

	+ The extended abstract

	+ Outline of rest of paper

	+ Cover letter, detailing

		o Title of paper

		o Authors

		o Estimate of paper length

		o Contact author (liaison to program committee)

		o E-mail address and daytime phone number for contact
		  author

		o Hours during which the daytime phone number can be
		  used

		o Surface mail address

		o Optional FAX and home phone numbers

	+ If hardcopy is being submitted, five copies of the
	  submission

The submission should be sent electronically to dlb@osf.org, or by
surface mail (five copies of abstract) to David Black at the address
listed below.  Submissions made by FAX will not be accepted.
Electronic submissions must be in plain text that can be reviewed in
the form submitted; the program committee does not have the time
to run formatting tools (e.g., TeX, LaTeX) or to figure out why
a printer refuses to print some Postscript document.

All submissions will be acknowledged.  Authors of approved abstracts
will be required to submit full-length papers (8-15 pages)
approximately five weeks after notification of acceptance.  Formatting
guidelines will be provided.

Areas of interest include, but certainly are not limited to:

	o Applications and support for programming languages

	o Mach 2.5 and related systems (e.g., OSF/1)

	o Mach 3.0 and servers

	o Mach-based operating system implementation and emulation

	o Use of Mach subsystems in other operating systems

	o Multiprocessor and parallelization experiences

	o Distributed systems, including multicomputers, clusters,
	  etc.

	o Real Time

	o Security

	o Performance

	o Productization experiences

	o Comparisons of Mach with other operating systems; e.g.,
	  Chorus, Sprite, Amoeba, V, and of course, UNIX

	o Future work

The program committee is especially interested in papers describing
applications and/or system servers that take advantage of Mach
features in addition to papers describing the evolution of Mach
kernel technology.  Submissions are strongly encouraged from efforts
across the entire spectrum from research projects to product
development efforts (including work that falls between these endpoints).

Important dates:

Extended abstracts:  December 4, 1992

Notification to Authors:  January 18, 1993

Camera-ready, full papers:  February 26, 1993

For further information about the symposium, contact the program
chair:

David Black
Research Institute
Open Software Foundation
1 Cambridge Center, 11th Floor
Cambridge, MA   02142
Voice:	+1 (617) 621-7347
FAX:	+1 (617) 621-8696
E-Mail: dlb@osf.org

Program Committee

David Golub, Carnegie Mellon University
Alan Langerman, Orca Systems, Inc.
Jay Lepreau, University of Utah
Avadis Tevanian, Jr., NeXT, Inc.


For registration, hotel and additional information please contact:

		USENIX Conference Office
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	        Phone:  714/588-8649
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