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Subject: 2004 USENIX ATC Call for Papers (53545) Date: Tuesday 30 September 2003 00:49 From: Andrea_Arpaci-Dusseau@usenix.org To: gustaf.neumann@wu-wien.ac.at

USENIX Annual Technical Conference June 27-July 2, 2004, Boston, Massachusetts http://www.usenix.org/usenix04/

Dear Colleague,

On behalf of the 2004 USENIX Annual Technical program committee, we invite you to contribute your ideas, proposals, and papers for our Invited Talk, Refereed Paper, and Special Interest Group (SIG) tracks, or for Work-in-Progress reports.

We are also pleased to announce that in response to your feedback, the 2004 program has been reorganized and expanded. The new format will include additional tutorials, more security breakthroughs, and extra sessions devoted to Linux and Open Source Software.

Whether you choose to submit a paper to the General Session or the FREENIX track or to send a proposal for the new Special Interest Group sessions, we invite you to join the community of programmers, developers, and systems professionals in sharing solutions and fresh ideas.

Call for Papers, General Session Refereed Papers http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/general.html

We welcome original and innovative papers about modern computing systems, emphasizing implementations with measured results. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

* Administration-free systems * Benchmarking * Deployment experience * Distributed and parallel systems * Embedded systems * Energy/power management * File and storage systems * Mobile systems * Networking and network services * Operating systems * Reliability and availability * Security, privacy, and trust * Virtual machines * Web technology * Usage studies & workload characterization

IMPORTANT DATES: * Submissions due: December 16, 2003, 11:59 p.m. EST * Notification to authors: February 4, 2004 * Camera-ready papers due: May 4, 2004

Please note that December 16 is a hard deadline; no extensions will be given.

Submission guidelines and conference details are available on our Web site:

http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/generalsubmit.html

Call For Papers, FREENIX Track http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/freenix.html

FREENIX is the USENIX Annual Technical Conference's forum on free and open source software. We are looking for a variety of types of submissions, including project reports, academic studies, and both successful and unsuccessful usage and development experiences. The 2004 FREENIX track will put special emphasis on two related areas:

I. Userland Application and Systems Development * Desktop applications * P2P and Web-based systems * Libraries, toolkits, and infrastructure * Scripting languages and applications * Novel algorithms and applications * System management and software development tools * Print systems

II. Free and Open Source Software Engineering * Project-centric: Software specification and design methodologies, novel implementation techniques, testing, deployment, readability and security, performance and scalability * Process-centric: Team governance, administration, and management; planning and forecasting; measuring progress and assessing quality * Integrating tools and methodologies

We welcome submissions on a wide variety of additional topics, including:

* Documentation * Current examples of development and management of free software * Graphical user interface tools * Interesting deployments of free software * Large-scale system management * Security * Nontechnical aspects of free software (business, legal, etc.) * Software development, system, and user management tools * Technical aspects of commercial use of free software

IMPORTANT DATES: * Submissions due: December 16, 2003 * Notification to authors: February 4, 2004 * Camera-ready papers due: April 8, 2004

Submission guidelines and conference details are available on our Web site:

http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/freenixsubmit.html

Call for Proposals, Special Interest Groups (SIGs) http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/sigs.html

New in 2004, a single track devoted to Special Interest Groups will be

offered. These sessions will run in parallel with the technical sessions. A SIG may be informal and composed of a community bound by a common interest. SIGs confirmed as of 9/26/03 are UseLinux and Security.

We are currently seeking proposals for SIGs. A sampling of possible topics:

*BSD *Sysadmin *Client Computing *Beowulf/Clusters *Apple/Mac OS X *Desktop/Gnome/KDE *Integration *Tools *Languages *Databases *Messaging/Collaboration

To submit a proposal for a SIG, please email Ellie Young, ellie@usenix.org.

Please join us in developing the best technical conference program ever! We look forward to your submissions.

On behalf of the USENIX '04 Organizing Committee,

Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison 2004 General Session Program Chairs usenix04chairs@usenix.org

Bart Massey, Portland State University Keith Packard, Hewlett-Packard Cambridge Research Lab 2004 FREENIX Program Chairs freenix04chairs@usenix.org

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