Announcement and Call for Papers 2003 USENIX Annual Technical Conference http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03

June 9–14, 2003 Marriott Hotel, San Antonio, Texas

Important Dates . As the core conference of this e-mail. If you do not receive notification by General Session Refereed Track submissions due: community, the USENIX Annual Technical Saturday, November 23, 2002, please contact: Monday, November 18, 2002, 11:59 PM, EST Conference is the premier forum for computing [email protected]. FREENIX Refereed Track submissions due: professionals to share the results of their latest Submitted papers should use reasonable font Monday, November 25, 2002, 11:59 PM, EST and best work, develop new ideas and solutions, sizes and margins, and must be no more than 14 Notification to authors: January 22, 2003 and connect with their colleagues. pages long. The 14 page limit includes Papers due for final shepherding approval: Three days of tutorials start the conference everything: references, figures, appendices, etc. March 31, 2003 with practical tutorials on timely topics. The Longer papers will not be reviewed. Don't feel Camera-ready papers due: April 8, 2003 three-day technical session of the conference compelled to fill 14 pages! If you can say follows and includes a track of General Session everything in 12 pages, (or 10, or 8), do so. Conference Organizers Refereed Papers selected by the Program However, papers so short as to be considered Program Committee Committee; a track of Invited Talks by experts extended abstracts will not receive full Chair: Brian Noble, University of Michigan and leaders in the field; and FREENIX, a track consideration. Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin of refereed papers on freely available POSIX- It is imperative that you follow the Edouard Bugnion, VMware based and systems. instructions for submitting a quality paper. Vinny Cahill, Trinity College Dublin General Session Refereed Papers Specific questions about submissions may be Jason Flinn, University of Michigan sent to the program chair via email to: The 2003 USENIX Technical Conference seeks Steve Gribble, University of Washington [email protected]. original and innovative papers about the Geoffrey H. Kuenning, Harvey Mudd College A good paper will demonstrate that the applications, architecture, implementation, and Darrell Long, UCSC authors: performance of modern computing systems. Patrick McDaniel, AT&T–Research are attacking a significant problem, Some particularly interesting application topics Vern Paxson, ICSI have devised an interesting, compelling are: Dave Presotto, Bell Labs solution, Administration-free systems Alex Snoeren, UCSD have demonstrated the practicality and Complexity management Dawn Song, CMU benefits of the solution, Distributed caching and replication Marvin Theimer, Microsoft Research have drawn appropriate conclusions, Embedded, parallel, and distributed Amin Vahdat, Duke University have clearly described what they have systems Bennet Yee, UCSD done, and Energy/Power management Invited Talks Coordinators have clearly articulated the advances File systems and storage systems Ted Faber, USC Information Sciences Institute beyond previous work. Finding bugs John Ioannidis, AT&T Labs–Research Authors will be notified of paper acceptance Mobile code or rejection by January 22, 2003. Accepted FREENIX Program Committee Multimedia papers will be shepherded by a program Chair: Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University Networking and network services committee member through an editorial review David Beazley, The University of Chicago Operating Systems process prior to final acceptance for publication Ray Bryant, SGI Reliability and availability in the proceedings. Chuck Cranor, AT&T Labs–Research Security, privacy, and trust Angelos Keromytis, Columbia University Ubiquitous and mobile computing FREENIX Refereed Track Chuck Lever, Network Appliance Usage studies and deployment experiences FREENIX is a special track within the USENIX Bart Massey, Portland State University Very large/small systems Annual Technical Conference. The FREENIX Keith Packard, XFree86 Core Team & HP Web Program Committee is looking for papers about Cambridge Research Labs Cash prizes will be awarded to the best projects with a solid emphasis on nurturing the Guido van Rooij, Madison Gurkha papers at the conference. Please see the Web site open source and freely-available software Robert Watson, Network Associates Laboratories for examples of Best Papers from previous years. communities. FREENIX papers should advance & The FreeBSD Project How to Submit a Paper to the General the state of the art of freely-redistributable Carl Worth, USC, Information Sciences Institute software or otherwise provide useful information “The Guru Is In” Coordinator Session Refereed Track to those faced with deploying, selling, or using Lee Damon, University of Washington Authors are required to submit full papers by in the field. Monday, November 18, 2002 at 23:59 EST. FREENIX is an excellent showcase for the Overview This is a hard deadline; no extensions will be latest developments and interesting applications USENIX is the Advanced Computing Systems given. of freely-redistributable software, and can help to Association. For over 25 years, its members have All submissions for USENIX ‘03 will be expand your developer and user base. The come from a broad community of developers, electronic, in PostScript or PDF, via a Web form FREENIX forum includes Apache, Darwin, researchers, system administrators and engineers located on the Conference Web site. Authors FreeBSD, GNOME, GNU, KDE, Linux, with interests spanning the full range of will be notified of receipt of submission via NetBSD, OpenBSD, Perl, PHP, Python, Samba, Tcl/Tk, X11, and more. The FREENIX track to guide authors toward a successful paper their topic areas, present both introductory and attempts to cover the full range of software submission. advanced tutorials covering topics such as: which is freely redistributable in source-code Cash prizes will be awarded for the best High availability and quality of service form and provides pointers to where the code paper and the best paper by a student. Distributed, replicated, and web based can be found on the . How to Submit to the FREENIX systems Submissions to the FREENIX track should System administration and security Refereed Track describe freely-redistributable software. Although Embedded systems The FREENIX Refereed track submission submissions need not necessarily be research File systems and storage systems deadline is November 25, 2002 (23:59pm papers, we encourage submissions that describe Interoperability of heterogeneous systems EST). This is a hard deadline; no extensions mature work – submissions for which the Operating systems (Linux, *BSD, NT, etc.) will be given! authors are ready to fully describe the Application development (threads, Perl, background, new ideas, experiments, and results You may submit either a complete paper, or a etc.) 3-5 page extended abstract of your work to date. of their work. The FREENIX track also seeks to Intrusion detection and prevention The program committee reads these submissions gather reports on projects that are current and Internet security to determine which papers to accept for the solidly under way, but may not yet be 100% Mobile code and mobile computing conference; it is important that you include finished. This differs from a Works-in-Progress New algorithms and applications enough detail that program committee members session, which is really a poster session for ideas. Systems application configuration and Areas of interest include, but are not limited can know what you are doing. In no event maintenance should you submit a description in excess of 14 to: Personal digital assistants pages including all figures, tables, and Cross-platform source portability and Security and privacy bibliography. binary compatibility Web-based technologies All submissions for the USENIX 2003 Desktop metaphors To provide the best possible tutorial slate, FREENIX Track will be electronic, in Distributed and parallel systems USENIX continually solicits proposals for new PostScript, PDF, or plain text, via the Web form Documentation tutorials. If you are interested in presenting a on the Conference Web site. Be sure your paper Embedded systems tutorial, contact: Dan Klein, Tutorial is formatted in US-letter style (8.5x11 inches) File system design Coordinator, Email: [email protected] and please use only standard English fonts. Graphical user interface Authors will be notified of receipt of Invited Talks Suggestions And Highly-available systems submission via e-mail. If you do not receive Proposals Welcome Highly-scalable and clustered systems notification by Friday, November 28, 2002, These survey-style talks given by experts range How free software is being developed and managed today please contact: [email protected]. over many interesting and timely topics. The Please see the Web site for more detailed Invited Talks track also may include panel Interesting deployments of free software guidelines on FREENIX submissions including presentations and selections from the best Large scale system management what a good paper should include and paper presentations at recent USENIX conferences. Network design and implementation examples: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/ The Invited Talks coordinators welcome Non-technical aspects of free software: business, legal, etc. cfp/freenixsubmit.html suggestions for topics and request proposals for particular talks. In your proposal state the main design Publication Restrictions for the focus, including a brief outline, and be sure to Print systems General Track and FREENIX Refereed emphasize why your topic is of general interest Quality assurance Papers to our community. Please submit via email to Security The USENIX Technical Conference, like most [email protected]. Software development tools conferences and journals, requires that both Storage systems General Track and FREENIX papers not be Work-in-Progress Reports System and user management tools submitted simultaneously to more than one Do you have interesting work you would like to Technical aspects of commercial use of free conference or publication, that submitted papers share, or a cool idea that is not yet ready to be software not be previously published elsewhere, and that published? The USENIX audience provides Interesting applications of freely- accepted papers not be subsequently published valuable discussion and feedback. We are redistributable software include: wearable elsewhere for a year from date of acceptance by particularly interested in presentation of student , video or audio processing, USENIX. Papers submitted to this conference work. To request a WIP slot, send email to ubiquitous computing, studio graphics, robotics that are under review elsewhere will not be [email protected]. and automation, large-scale environments, high- reviewed. Papers accompanied by non-disclosure Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BoFs) speed networking, high-performance agreement forms can not be accepted, and will simulations, embedded systems, clustering, The always popular evening BoFs are very not be reviewed. All submissions are held in the informal, attendee-organized gatherings of automation, and more. FREENIX submissions highest confidentiality prior to publication in will be primarily judged based on the novelty of persons interested in a particular topic. BoFs the Proceedings, both as a matter of policy and may be scheduled at the conference or in the work, usefulness of the work to the OSS in accord with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976. community, and the paper’s ability to educate or advance via email to [email protected]. provoke discussion about the topic. Submitting a Tutorial Program Registration Materials We encourage first-time authors to submit Proposal Complete program and registration information papers. In our experience, it is important for On Monday–Wednesday, June 9–11, USENIX's will be available in March 2003 at authors to begin thinking about writing a paper well-respected tutorial program offers intensive, http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03. If you early enough. If you would like help or immediately practical tutorials on topics would like to receive the program booklet in comments on your paper idea, feel free to email essential to the use, development, and print, please email your request, including your [email protected]; we would be happy administration of advanced computing systems. postal address, to: [email protected]. Skilled instructors, who are hands-on experts in Rev. 7/30/02