Announcement and Call for Papers 2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix02 June 10–15, 2002 Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, California Important Dates Three days of tutorials start the conference receive notification by Friday, November 23, FREENIX Refereed Track submission deadline: with practical tutorials on timely topics. The 2001, please contact: [email protected]. November 12, 2001 three-day technical session of the conference Papers should be 8 to 12 single-spaced 8.5 x General Session Refereed Track submission follows and includes a track of General Session 11 inch pages (about 4000-6000 words), not deadline: November 19, 2001 Refereed Papers selected by the Program counting figures and references. Papers longer Notification to authors: January 22, 2002 Committee; a track of Invited Talks by experts than 14 pages and papers so short as to be FREENIX Track papers due for final and leaders in the field; and FREENIX, a track considered extended abstracts (e.g., five pages or shepherding approval: April 8, 2002 of refereed papers on freely available POSIX- less) will not be reviewed. Camera-ready papers due: April 16, 2002 based software and systems. It is imperative that you follow the General Session Refereed Papers instructions for submitting a quality paper. Conference Organizers Specific questions about submissions may be The 2002 USENIX Technical Conference seeks Program Committee: sent to the program chair via email to: original and innovative papers about the Chair: Carla Ellis, Duke University [email protected]. applications, architecture, implementation, and Darrell Anderson, Duke University A good paper will clearly demonstrate that performance of modern computing systems. Mary Baker, Stanford University the authors: Some particularly interesting application topics Frank Bellosa, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg G are attacking a significant problem, are: Greg Ganger, Carnegie-Mellon University G are familiar with the literature, G Cluster computing Mike Jones, Microsoft Research G have devised an original or clever solution, G Complexity management Patrick McDaniel, University of Michigan G if appropriate, have implemented the solu- G Distributed caching and replication Jason Nieh, Columbia University tion and characterized its performance G Energy/Power management Vern Paxson, ACIRI using reasonable experimental techniques, G File systems and storage systems Christopher Small, Sun Microsystems and G Interoperability of heterogeneous Mirjana Spasojevic, HP G have drawn appropriate conclusions from systems Mike Spreitzer, IBM their work. G Mobile/Wireless computing Amin Vahdat, Duke University Authors will be notified of paper acceptance G Mobile code Invited Talks Coordinator: or rejection by January 22, 2002. Accepted G Networking and network services Matt Blaze, AT&T Labs–Research papers will be shepherded by a program G Multimedia Ted Faber, USC Information Sciences Institute committee member through an editorial review G Reliability and QoS process prior to final acceptance for publication FREENIX Program Committee: G Security and privacy in the proceedings. Chair: Chris Demetriou, Broadcom Corp. G Ubiquitous computing Chuck Cranor, AT&T Labs–Research G Usage studies FREENIX Refereed Track Jim McGinness, Consultant G Web technologies FREENIX is a special track within the USENIX Craig Metz, Extreme Networks As at all USENIX conferences, papers that Annual Technical Conference. USENIX Toon Moene, GNU Fortran Team analyze problem areas, draw important encourages the exchange of information and Keith Packard, XFree86 Core Team & SuSE, Inc. conclusions from practical experience, and make technologies between commercial UNIX Niels Provos, University of Michigan freely available the techniques and tools products and the free software world as well as Ronald Joe Record, Caldera Systems developed in the course of the work are among the various free operating-system Robert Watson, NAI Labs & The FreeBSD especially welcome. alternatives. Project Cash prizes will be awarded to the best FREENIX is the showcase for the latest Erez Zadok, SUNY at Stony Brook papers at the conference. Please see the Web site developments and interesting applications of Overview for examples of Best Papers from previous years. freely-redistributable software. The FREENIX USENIX is the Advanced Computing Systems How to Submit a Paper to the General forum includes Apache, Darwin, FreeBSD, GNOME, GNU, KDE, Linux, NetBSD, Association. For over 25 years, its members have Session Refereed Track come from a broad community of developers, OpenBSD, Perl, PHP, Python, Samba, Tcl/Tk Authors are required to submit full papers by researchers, system administrators and engineers and more. The FREENIX track attempts to Monday, November 19, 2001 at 23:59 EST. with interests spanning the full range of cover the full range of software which is freely This is a hard deadline; no extensions will be technology. As the core conference of this redistributable in source-code form and provides given. In cases of serious hardship, contact community, the USENIX Annual Technical pointers to where the code can be found on the [email protected]. All submissions for Conference is the premier forum for computing Internet. USENIX 2002 will be electronic, in PostScript professionals to share the results of their latest Submissions to the FREENIX track should or PDF, via a Web form located on the and best work, develop new ideas and solutions, describe freely-redistributable software. conference Web site. Authors will be notified of and connect with their colleagues. FREENIX encourages submissions which receipt of submission via e-mail. If you do not describe mature work, and for which the authors are ready to fully describe the background, new your work to date. The program committee G Intrusion detection and prevention ideas, experiments, and results of their work. reads these submissions to determine which G Internet security The FREENIX track also seeks to gather reports papers to accept for the conference; it is G Mobile code and mobile computing on projects that are current and solidly under important that you include enough detail that G New algorithms and applications way, but may not yet be 100% finished. This program committee members can know what G Systems application configuration and differs from a Works-In-Progress session, which you are doing. In no event should you submit a maintenance is really a poster session for ideas. description in excess of 14 pages including all G Personal digital assistants FREENIX is looking for papers about figures, tables, and bibliography. G Security and privacy projects with a solid emphasis on nurturing the All submissions for the USENIX 2002 G Web-based technologies open source and freely-available software FREENIX Track will be electronic, in To provide the best possible tutorial slate, communities. The purpose for the FREENIX PostScript, PDF, or plain text, via a Web form USENIX continually solicits proposals for new track is not as an archival reference for all located on the conference Web site. tutorials. If you are interested in presenting a available projects with freely-redistributable Authors will be notified of receipt of tutorial, contact: Dan Klein, Tutorial source code, but rather a place to let others submission via e-mail. If you do not receive Coordinator, Phone: 1.412.422.0285, Email: know about the project on which you are notification by Friday, November 16, 2001, [email protected] working and to provide a forum from which to please contact: [email protected]. Submitting an Invited Talk Proposal expand your user and developer base. Papers If you have specific questions about These survey-style talks given by experts range should advance the state of the art of freely- submissions, send them to the program chair via over many interesting and timely topics. The redistributable software or otherwise provide email to: [email protected]. Invited Talks track also may include panel useful information to those faced with Please see the Web site for more detailed presentations and selections from the best deploying, selling, or using free software in the guidelines on FREENIX submissions including presentations at recent USENIX conferences. field. what a good paper should include and paper The Invited Talks coordinators welcome Areas of interest include, but are not limited examples: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix02/ suggestions for topics and request proposals for to: cfp/freenixsubmit.html particular talks. In your proposal state the main G Cross-platform source portability and Publication Restrictions for the focus, including a brief outline, and be sure to binary compatibility General Track and FREENIX Refereed emphasize why your topic is of general interest G Desktop metaphors to our community. Please submit via email to G Distributed and parallel systems Papers [email protected]. G Documentation The USENIX Technical Conference, like most G File system design conferences and journals, requires that both Work-in-Progress Reports G Graphical user interface tools General Track and FREENIX papers not be Do you have interesting work you would like to G Highly-available systems submitted simultaneously to more than one share, or a cool idea that is not yet ready to be G Highly-scalable and clustered systems conference or publication, that submitted papers published? The USENIX audience provides G How free software is being