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USENIX 2002
June 9-14, 2002
Monterey Conference Center
Monterey, CA
OVERVIEW
USENIX is the Advanced Computing Systems Association. For over
25 years, its members have come from a broad community of
developers, researchers, system administrators and engineers with
interests spanning the full range of technology. As the core
conference of this community, the USENIX Annual Technical
Conference is the premier forum for computing professionals to share
the results of their latest and best work, develop new ideas and
solutions, and connect with their colleagues.
Three days of tutorials start the conference with practical tutorials on
timely topics. The three-day technical session of the conference
follows and includes a track of General Session Refereed Papers
selected by the Program Committee; a track of Invited Talks by
experts and leaders in the field; and FREENIX, a track of refereed
papers on freely available POSIX-based software and systems.
IMPORTANT DATES
FREENIX Refereed Track submissions due: November 12, 2001
General Session Refereed Track submissions due: November 19, 2001
Notification to authors: January 22, 2002
FREENIX Track papers due for final shepherding approval: April 8, 2002
Camera-ready papers due: April 16, 2002
Program and Registration Information
Complete program and registration information will be available in March
2002 here at the conference Web site. The information will be in both HTML
and a printable PDF file. If you would like to receive the program booklet in
print, please email your request, including your postal address, to:
conference@usenix.org.
GENERAL SESSION REFEREED PAPERS
The 2002 USENIX Technical Conference seeks original and innovative
papers about the applications, architecture, implementation, and
performance of modern computing systems. Some particularly interesting
application topics are:
Cluster computing
Complexity management
Distributed caching and replication
Power management
File systems and storage systems
Interoperability of heterogeneous systems
Mobile/Wireless computing
Mobile code
Networking and network services
Multimedia
Reliability and QoS
Security and privacy
Ubiquitous computing
Usage studies
Web technologies
As at all USENIX conferences, papers that analyze problem areas, draw
important conclusions from practical experience, and make freely
available the techniques and tools developed in the course of the work are
especially welcome.
Cash prizes will be awarded to the best papers at the conference. Please
see the Compendium of Best Papers for examples of Best Papers from
previous years.
HOW TO SUBMIT A PAPER TO THE GENERAL
SESSION REFEREED TRACK
Authors are required to submit full papers by Monday, November 19, 2001
at 23:59 EST. This is a hard deadline; no extensions will be given. In
cases of serious hardship, contact usenix02chair@usenix.org.
All submissions for USENIX 2002 will be electronic, in PostScript or PDF,
via this Web form. Authors will be notified of receipt of submission via
e-mail. If you do not receive notification by Friday, November 23, 2001,
please contact: usenix02chair@usenix.org.
Papers should be 8 to 12 single-spaced 8.5 x 11 inch pages (about
4000-6000 words), not counting figures and references. Papers longer than
14 pages and papers so short as to be considered extended abstracts (e.g.,
five pages or less) will not be reviewed.
It is imperative that you follow the instructions for submitting a quality paper.
Specific questions about submissions may be sent to the program chair via
email to: usenix02chair@usenix.org. A good paper will clearly demonstrate
that the authors:
are attacking a significant problem,
are familiar with the literature,
have devised an original or clever solution,
if appropriate, have implemented the solution and characterized its
performance using reasonable experimental techniques, and
have drawn appropriate conclusions from their work.
Note: the USENIX Technical Conference, like most conferences and
journals, requires that papers not be submitted simultaneously to more than
one conference or publication, that submitted papers not be previously
published elsewhere, and that accepted papers not be subsequently
published elsewhere for a year from date of acceptance by USENIX.
Papers submitted to this conference that are under review elsewhere will
not be reviewed. Papers accompanied by non-disclosure agreement forms
can not be accepted, and will not be reviewed. All submissions are held in
the highest confidentiality prior to publication in the Proceedings, both as a
matter of policy and in accord with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976.
Authors will be notified of paper acceptance or rejection by January 22,
2002. Accepted papers will be shepherded by a program committee
member through an editorial review process prior to final acceptance for
publication in the proceedings.
FREENIX REFEREED TRACK
FREENIX is a special track within the USENIX Annual Technical
Conference. USENIX encourages the exchange of information and
technologies between commercial UNIX products and the free software
world as well as among the various free operating-system alternatives.
FREENIX is the showcase for the latest developments and interesting
applications of freely-redistributable software. The FREENIX forum
includes Apache, Darwin, FreeBSD, GNOME, GNU, KDE, Linux, NetBSD,
OpenBSD, Perl, PHP, Python, Samba, Tcl/Tk and more. The FREENIX
track attempts to cover the full range of software which is freely
redistributable in source-code form and provides pointers to where the code
can be found on the Internet.
Submissions to the FREENIX track should describe freely-redistributable
software. FREENIX encourages submissions which describe mature work,
and for which the authors are ready to fully describe the background, new
ideas, experiments, and results of their work. The FREENIX track also
seeks to gather reports on projects that are current and solidly under way,
but may not yet be 100% finished. This differs from a Works-In-Progress
session, which is really a poster session for ideas.
FREENIX is looking for papers about projects with a solid emphasis on
nurturing the open source and freely-available software communities. The
purpose for the FREENIX track is not as an archival reference for all
available projects with freely-redistributable source code, but rather a place
to let others know about the project on which you are working and to
provide a forum from which to expand your user and developer base. Papers
should advance the state of the art of freely-redistributable software or
otherwise provide useful information to those faced with deploying, selling,
or using free software in the field.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Cross-platform source portability and binary compatibility
Desktop metaphors
Distributed and parallel systems
Documentation
File system design
Graphical user interface tools
Highly-available systems
Highly-scalable and clustered systems
How free software is being developed and managed today
Interesting deployments of free software
Large scale system management
Network design and implementation
Operating system design
Print systems
Quality Assurance
Security
Software development tools
Storage systems
System and user management tools
Technical aspects of commercial use of free software
Interesting applications of freely-redistributable software include: wearable
computers, video or audio processing, ubiquitous computing, studio graphics,
robotics and automation, large-scale environments, high-speed
networking, high-performance simulations, embedded systems, clustering,
automation, and more.
Cash prizes will be awarded for the best paper and the best paper by a
student.
HOW TO SUBMIT TO THE FREENIX REFEREED TRACK
The FREENIX Refereed track submission deadline is November 12, 2001.
You may submit either a complete paper, or a 2-5 page extended abstract or summary
of your work to date. The program committee reads these submissions to determine
which papers to accept for the conference; it is important that you include enough
detail that program committee members can know what you are doing. In no event
should you submit a description in excess of 14 pages including all figures, tables, and
bibliography.
All submissions for the USENIX 2002 FREENIX Track will be electronic, in
PostScript, PDF, or plain text, via this Web form.
Authors will be notified of receipt of submission via e-mail. If you do not receive
notification by Friday, November 16, 2001, please contact: freenix02chair@usenix.org.
A good paper should:
be informative. The readers of your paper should learn something from it. It
should be clear whether readers can apply your work to their own environment,
and how they would go about doing so. `Negative results'' that contradict the
conventional wisdom are often more important than positive results, especially
in case studies.
demonstrate the innovation in the work being discussed.
Freely-redistributable source code alone does not necessarily make a project
innovative. Projects being discussed need not be major breakthroughs in their
fields, but should at minimum demonstrate something new, potentially useful,
and non-obvious. Papers should clearly demonstrate any improvements over
the previously published work in their field.
demonstrate the maturity of the work. The work described should be well
under way. Most of the design and some of the implementation and testing
should be accomplished by the summary submission date. You should have
some initial results to report, including some idea of the performance of the
work described (if appropriate). Final details are not needed at summary
submission date, but should be presented in the final published work.
describe a project which has freely-redistributable source code, or work
related to such a project. Authors are strongly encouraged to release any
source code they have prior to initial submission, even if the sources are
incomplete and may not compile. If your project is not far enough along for that
to be possible, it may be more appropriate for a Work-in-Progress session.
Similarly, if at all possible, final papers should include references to published
source code.
be clearly written. Submissions should clearly describe the ideas, work
already accomplished, and work to be completed. Authors are encouraged to
use available online writing style guides if they need guidance in this area.
(Good examples include:
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/etc/writing-style.html and
http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/SRC/publications/levin/SOSPhowto.html.)
While summary submissions will not be final or complete, the qualities listed above
should be evident in the summary submissions. Summary submissions should clearly
detail where work is still to be done or explained.
Papers previously published by USENIX, especially those published in the FREENIX
Refereed Track, may be useful to help determine what is appropriate, and to improve
your paper. A list of papers previously published by USENIX is available in our Library
of Proceedings.
Note: the USENIX Technical Conference, like most conferences and journals,
requires that papers not be submitted simultaneously to more than one conference or
publication, and that submitted papers not be previously or subsequently published
elsewhere. Papers accompanied by non-disclosure agreement forms are not
acceptable and will be returned to the author(s) unread. All submissions are held in the
highest confidentiality prior to publication in the Proceedings, both as a matter of policy
and in accord with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976.
Authors will be notified of paper acceptance or rejection by January 22, 2002. Authors
whose submissions are accepted are expected to produce a final written report for the
proceedings. Each accepted paper will be shepherded by a member of the program
committee. Shepherds will help authors through the writing process prior to final
acceptance for publication. The final reports must be reviewed and accepted by the
paper's shepherd by April 8, 2002. After shepherd approval, the reports must be
submitted with the standard release forms to the USENIX publications office by April
16, 2002. If you would like to avoid future formatting changes, you may consult a
predefined template which formats according to the USENIX guidelines: StarWriter
5.0, Troff, LaTeX and style file, Framemaker.
Final reports should be as polished as possible; higher quality submissions are often
better received by the community. The papers should describe work that has been
completed as of the time of their final submission. Your talk at the conference may
describe not only what is in your paper but also the work completed between the time
that the final paper is submitted and the conference is held.
If you have specific questions about submissions, send them to the program chair via
email to: freenix02chair@usenix.org.
TUTORIALS, INVITED TALKS, WIPS, AND BOFS
Tutorial Suggestions and Proposals Welcome
On Sunday-Tuesday, June 9-11, USENIX's well-respected tutorial
program offers intensive, immediately practical tutorials on topics essential
to the use, development, and administration of advanced computing systems.
Skilled instructors, who are hands-on experts in their topic areas, present
both introductory and advanced tutorials covering topics such as:
High availability and quality of service
Distributed, replicated, and web based systems
System administration and security
Embedded systems
File systems and storage systems
Interoperability of heterogeneous systems
Operating systems (Linux, *BSD, NT, etc.)
Application development (threads, Perl, etc.)
Intrusion detection and prevention
Internet security
Mobile code and mobile computing
New algorithms and applications
Systems application configuration and maintenance
Personal digital assistants
Security and privacy
Web-based technologies
To provide the best possible tutorial slate, USENIX continually solicits
proposals for new tutorials. If you are interested in presenting a tutorial,
contact: Dan Klein, Tutorial Coordinator, Phone: 1.412.422.0285, Email:
dvk@usenix.org
Invited Talks Suggestions And Proposals Welcome
These survey-style talks given by experts range over many interesting and
timely topics. The Invited Talks track also may include panel presentations
and selections from the best presentations at recent USENIX conferences.
The Invited Talks coordinators welcome suggestions for topics and request
proposals for particular talks. In your proposal state the main focus, including
a brief outline, and be sure to emphasize why your topic is of general interest
to our community. Please submit via email to usenix02it@usenix.org.
Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPs)
Do you have interesting work you would like to share, or a cool idea that is
not yet ready to be published? The USENIX audience provides valuable
discussion and feedback. We are particularly interested in presentation of
student work. To request a WiP slot, send email to
usenix02wips@usenix.org.
Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BoFs)
The always popular evening BOFs are very informal, attendee-organized
gatherings of persons interested in a particular topic. BOFs may be
scheduled at the conference or in advance via email to
conference@usenix.org.
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