From: bjorn@sysadmin.com (Bjorn Satdeva)
Subject: Call For Papaers: USENIX LISA VII System Administration Conference
Organization: /sys/admin, inc.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 23:14:47 GMT


ANNOUNCEMENT/CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

7th USENIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION CONFERENCE (LISA VII)
November 1-5, 1993
Marriott Hotel
Monterey, California


The annual LISA conference provides a forum in which system administrators meet
to share ideas and experiences.  A growing success for the past six years, LISA
is the only conference which focuses specifically on the needs of system
administrators.  Its scope includes system administrators from sites of all
sizes and configurations.

TUTORIAL PROGRAM
Monday and Tuesday, November 1-2, 1993
The two-day tutorial program at LISA VII is divided into three tracks with a
total of twelve half-day tutorials.  Attendees may move between tracks,
choosing
which sections most interest them.  Tutorials offer expert instruction in areas
of interest to system administrators, novice through experienced.  Topics are
expected to include Networking, Programming in Perl, X and the Administrator,
the Domain Name System, Sendmail, and more.

TECHNICAL SESSIONS
Wednesday through Friday, November 3-5, 1993
"The Human Aspect of UNIX System Administration" is the theme of the first
track
of the conference technical sessions.  Although papers of a more traditional
technical content are also very welcome, the committee is especially seeking
papers on areas such as creating policies and procedures, interacting with
management and/or users, or which describe and evaluate methods aimed at
improved communication with users and/or management.  We are interested in
papers which provide freely available or fully described solutions to existing
problems. 

The second track of the conference technical sessions will be split between
presentations on very large installation system administration and
presentations
of practical, experience-derived material of special interest to new system
administrators.

No simple measure defines "large installation."  It could be number of hosts,
number of users, size of network, amount of on-line storage, or some
combination
of these.  The only certainty is that today's large will be tomorrow's
standard.
We wish to hear from sites which have unique problems and solutions relating to
the management of large installations.  We seek proposals for papers, panels,
mini-workshops, or similar presentations for this track.

We also seek papers, mini-workshops, or panel presentations of pragmatic
material from experienced system administrators who wish to share their
experiences, hardships and solutions.  It is hoped that administrators at all
levels can leverage this track to solve specific problems at their site.

VENDOR DISPLAY
Wednesday, November 3, 1993, 5 pm - 9 pm
Well informed vendor representatives will demonstrate products and services
useful to system and network administration at the informal table-top display
accompanying the LISA Conference.  If your company would like to participate,
please contact Cynthia Deno at (408) 335-9445, FAX (408 335-2163, E-mail:
cynthia@usenix.org

CONFERENCE TOPICS
The technical sessions program may include invited talks, panels,
Works-In-Progress (WIP) reports, and Birds-Of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions,
alongside the refereed paper presentations.  The program committee invites you
to submit informal proposals, ideas, or suggestions on any of the following or
related topics:

Implementation, usage, and strategies for Policies and Procedures
Effects of improved communication with users and/or management.
Tricks in user education
How to develop Junior System Administrators
System Security Monitoring
Security issues, especially where multiple people are privileged users
Heterogeneous system administration
Human issues of administration
Graphical User Interfaces for system administration
Distributed system administration
Network growth and performance management
Network management
Network monitoring
Wireless LANs
Evaluating performance of high-end workstations and servers
Integration of heterogeneous systems
Usage monitoring and accounting systems
Administration of remote sites

REFEREED PAPER SUBMISSIONS
The committee requires that an extended abstract be submitted for the paper
selection process.  (Full-papers are not acceptable for this stage; if you send
a full paper, you must also include an extended abstract for evaluation.)  Your
extended abstract should consist of a traditional abstract which summarizes the
content/ideas of the entire paper, followed by a skeletal outline of the full
paper.  We require electronic (nroff/troff, TeX or ASCII) submission of the
extended abstract.

Authors of an accepted paper will present their paper at LISA VII and provide a
final paper for publication in the Conference Proceedings.  Final papers are
limited to 20 pages, including diagrams, figures and appendix. Papers should
include a brief description of the site (if applicable), an outline of the
problem and issues, and details of the solution. Authors may provide electronic
versions or camera-ready copy (instructions will be provided upon request) of
final papers.  Conference proceedings will be distributed to all conference
attendees and will also be available from the USENIX Association after the
conference.

ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSIONS
For submission of all proposals and of extended abstracts of refereed papers,
and for program Information, contact:
Program Chair:
Bjorn Satdeva
2787 Moorpark Avenue
San Jose, CA 95128
(408) 241-3111
E-mail:  bjorn@sysadmin.com

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Bjorn Satdeva, /sys/admin, Inc., Program Chair
Brent Chapman, Great Circle Associates
Lee Damon, Castle PAUS
Tina M. Darmohray, Lawrence Livermore National Labs
Janet Frazer, UNIX System Laboratories, Inc.
Helen Harrison, SAS Institute
Dinah McNutt, Tivoli Systems
Bryan McDonald, SRI International
Arch Mott, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Paul Moriarty, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Jeff Polk, Berkeley Software Design, Inc,
Greg Rose, Australian Computing and Communications Institute
Peg Schafer, Bolt Beranek & Newman, Inc.
Steve Simmons, Industrial Technology Institute
Liza Y. Weissler, RAND Corporation
Pat Wilson, Dartmouth College
Elizabeth Zwicky, SRI International

DATES FOR REFEREED PAPER SUBMISSIONS
Extended Abstract Submission Deadline:  July 2, 1993
Notification to Authors:  July 23, 1993
Final Papers Receipt Deadline:  Sept 7, 1993

FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Materials containing all details of the symposium program, symposium
registration fees and forms, and hotel discount and reservation information
will
be mailed and posted to the net beginning August 1993.  If you wish to receive
registration materials, please contact:

USENIX Conference Office
22672 Lambert Street, Suite 613
El Toro, CA 92630 USA
(714) 588-8649; FAX: (714) 588-9706
E-mail: conference@usenix.org


USENIX
The UNIX and Advanced Computing Systems Professional and Technical Association


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Bjorn Satdeva --  email: bjorn@sysadmin.com
/sys/admin, inc.  The Unix System Management Experts  (408) 241 3111