From: usenix!carolyn@uunet.UU.NET (Carolyn Carr)
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Subject: USENIX Mach Sympsosium: Call for Papers
Date: 29 Sep 1992 15:41:20 GMT
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	Preliminary Announcement and 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.