From: woods@robohack (Greg A. Woods)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: Call for Participation:  USENIX Symposium on Applications Development
Summary: This is an official call for participation
Date: 28 Jul 92 15:21:17 GMT
Expires: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 08:00:00 GMT
Organization: USENIX & UniForum Canada


Call for Participation

USENIX Symposium:  UNIX Applications Development

Toronto, Ontario; Canada
Marriott Hotel
March 29 - April 1, 1993

Co-sponsored by the USENIX Association and UniForum Canada.

One of the major uses of UNIX today is the support, development, and
execution of applications ultimately used in achieving end users' business
goals.  The current trends in large end-user organizations of downsizing
major applications from older mainframes to less expensive, more powerful,
and simpler, modern, networked, machines lend UNIX a serious position in
the commercial marketplace.  Consequently, more and more computing and
information systems professionals are encountering UNIX when developing
and maintaining applications.

The purpose of this symposium is to expose the challenges of building
and maintaining applications on UNIX platforms, to discuss solutions
and experiences, and to explore existing practice and techniques.

This symposium will feature papers, invited talks, panel discussions, and
tutorials on aspects of designing, building, testing, debugging, and
maintaining applications within and for the UNIX environment.  There will
also be ample opportunity at this symposium to meet your peers and make
contact with others with similar interests.

This symposium will provide valuable information to designers,
programmers, and managers who are planning to port existing
applications into the UNIX environment or move development and
maintenance teams from proprietary environments to UNIX.


IMPORTANT DATES for Refereed Paper Submissions

Extended Abstracts Due:			December 4, 1992

Notifications to Authors:		December 16, 1992

Final Papers Due:			February 12, 1993


Other Important Dates

Pre-Registration Materials available	Mid-January, 1993
Tutorial Program			Tue., March 29, 1993
Technical Sessions			Wed., March 30 - Thu., April 1, 1993
Birds-Of-a-Feather Sessions		Tue., March 29 - Thu., April 1, 1993
USENIX Reception			Thu. evening, April 1, 1993

USENIX is co-sponsoring this event with UniForum Canada, a non-profit
membership organization.  UniForum\*(tm is a trademark of UniForum.


SUGGESTED TOPICS

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

Graphical User Interfaces \- The X Window System \- User Interface Design
& Standards.  Open Look, Motif, NeWS, and so on.  What is a style guide?
Importance of consistency and ease of use.

Porting Issues \- Issues surrounding the tasks of porting an existing
application to UNIX, as well as issues of making UNIX applications
portable to other architectures and other platforms.

Networking \- Client / Server design issues, etc.

Project Management \- Using UNIX tools to support project management.
CASE \- What, When, Why, Who, How.

O/S Issues \- Overcoming limitations set by hardware and operating systems.

Security \- The impact of security features.  Schemes for maintaining
security within an application.

Transaction Processing \- Implementing distributed transaction processing
for UNIX applications.

Fourth Generation Languages \- What advantages and disadvantages do 4GL's
have in a UNIX environment?

Distributed Applications \- How do you make the best use of existing UNIX
functionality (such as e-mail) to build UNIX applications?  What are the
issues of building and/or using distributed databases?

Object Oriented Programming \- Productivity, languages, techniques, case
studies, etc.

Object Oriented Databases \- Advantages, etc.

The Corporate Internet \- High Speed for the Elite, or Connectivity for
the Masses?  ISDN, TCP/IP, OSI, UUCP.  Governments, privateers, service
providers, co-operatives, telecoms.  Network philosophy \- open road,
tollbooths, freeloaders or lifeblood.

Delivering/Installing Applications \- What's the best way?  How to prevent
piracy, worms, viruses, etc.  How to do updates effectively and securely.

Testing & Certifying Binary Applications \- Who does this?  What does this
achieve?  How long does it take?  Applications and POSIX.1 Conformance
Testing.

Standards \- ABI/API/ANDF \- How, What, Where, When, Why?  What are they?
How are these standards used?  How do they affect applications?  What
features does each have?  What benefits are derived from using each?
Where should they be used/followed?  When will they be real?  How do you
keep up with new standards?  Why are they necessary?


SUBMISSION DETAILS

Papers may feature real-life experiences, as well as research topics.
Both case-study and technical papers will be accepted.  Case studies
should describe existing systems and include implementation details and
may also include performance data where practical.

Submissions must be in the form of extended abstracts (1500-2500 words;
3-5 pages in length).  Shorter abstracts might not give the program
committee enough information to judge your work fairly and, in most cases,
your submission will be rejected.  Longer abstracts and full papers simply
cannot be read by the committee in the time available.  Feel free to
append a full paper to an extended abstract; this is sometimes useful
during evaluation.  The extended abstract should represent your paper in
\fIshort form\fR.  The committee wants to see that you have a real
project, that you are familiar with the work in your area, and that you
can clearly explain yourself.

Please note that presentations are usually scheduled to last 25 minutes.
Your presentation should provide an overview of your paper and entice your
audience to read it in the proceedings and hopefully follow up on your
solution, or take your advice into consideration.

Papers will be judged on technical merit, relevance to the theme, and
suitability for presentation.  Papers are welcome from software (and
hardware) vendors who wish to share their innovative solutions an
techniques, but be fore-warned that product marketing will not be
tolerated.

Persons interested in participating in panel discussions should
contact <woods@usenix.org>.


TUTORIAL PROGRAM

Tutorial Coordinator:  Dan Klein <dvk@usenix.org> Tel: 412-421-2332

Explore topics essential to successful use and development of UNIX and
UNIX-like operating systems, X windows, networking and interoperability,
advanced programming languages, and related areas of interest.  The USENIX
Association's well-respected tutorial program offers you introductory
and advanced, intensive yet practical tutorials.  Courses are presented by
skilled teachers who are hands-on experts in their topic areas.

In an effort to continue to provide the best possible tutorial slate,
USENIX is soliciting proposals for new tutorials.  If you are interested
in presenting a tutorial, contact the Tutorial Coordinator (see above).


INVITED TALKS

Interim Invited Talks and Panel Co-ordinator:   Greg A. Woods <woods@usenix.org>

As part of the technical sessions, a series of invited talks provides
introductory and advanced information about a variety of interesting
topics, such as using standard UNIX tools and employing specialized
applications.  We welcome suggestions for topics as well as request
proposals for particular Talks.  In your proposal, state the main focus,
include a brief outline, and be sure to emphasize why your topic is of
general interest to our community.


BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER SESSIONS

BOF Scheduling:  USENIX Conference Office (conference@usenix.org>

Birds-of-a-Feather sessions (BoFs) bring together devotees of many varied
disciplines for discussions, announcements, mingling, and strategy sharing
during evenings at the symposium.  Schedule a BoF in advance or on-site.


WORK-IN-PROGRESS REPORTS

WIPS Coordinator: Greg A. Woods <woods@usenix.org>

These reports provide researchers with 10 minutes to speak on current work
and receive valuable feedback.  Present your interim results, novel
approaches, or newly-completed work.  Schedule your report in advance or
on-site.


FOR MORE INFORMATION

Materials containing all details of the technical and tutorial program,
conference registration, hotel and airline discount and reservation
information will be mailed in January of 1993. If you wish to receive the
pre-registration materials, please contact:

USENIX Conference Office
22672 Lambert St., Suite 613
El Toro, California
92630  U.S.A.
conference@usenix.org
+1 714 588-8649
+1 714 588-9706 [FAX]

Greg A. Woods
Program Chair
#3 \- 46 Three Valleys Drive
Don Mills, Ontario
M3A 3B5 CANADA
woods@usenix.org
+1 416 443-1734
+1 416 595-5425 [FAX]


Current Program Committee:

Rob Kolstad, Berkeley Software Design <kolstad@bsdi.com>
Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software <evan@telly.on.ca>
Peter Renzland, Ontario Government <peter@renzland.org>
Dan Tomlinson, Compusoft <compus!dan@uunet.uu.net>
Greg A. Woods, Elegant Communications <woods@usenix.org>
Elizabeth Zwicky, SRI International <zwicky@sri.com>
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						Greg A. Woods

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