-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (EUROSYS 2006 Call for Papers) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:40:15 -0800 From: Geoff Voelker voelker@CS.UCSD.EDU Reply-To: Geoff Voelker voelker@CS.UCSD.EDU To: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG

EUROSYS 2006 Leuven April 18-21, 2006 http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/conference/EuroSys2006/

EuroSys2006 is the first of a series of system conferences located in Europe. It welcomes submissions and attendance from all over the world. It will be held in Leuven, Belgium, April 18-21, 2006. EuroSys aims to bring together researchers from different areas of computer systems, who are otherwise spread over multiple conferences. As a result, we seek papers on all aspects of computer systems. We especially seek papers that cross the divide between areas and address:

* All areas of operating systems and distributed systems * Systems aspects of: - Programming language support - Databases - Distributed algorithms - Middleware - Parallel and concurrent computing - Clusters and grids - Mobile and pervasive computing - Embedded computers and tiny devices - Novel user interfaces - Real-time computing - Security - Dependable computing - Novel uses of information technology - Management, measurement and monitoring * Experience with existing systems * Reproduction of previous results * Negative results * Early ideas

Papers should report, where possible, on the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment of such systems. However, at least one session of the conference will be reserved for "idea" papers. These papers may not be held to the same standards in terms of evaluation as other submissions. Similarly, one session of the conference will be reserved for "experience papers", reflecting on the use or the lack of use of earlier concepts. For such papers, novelty of the concept is less of an issue, but depth of evaluation is of paramount importance. Authors may but need not designate their paper for one of these sessions.

To encourage diversity, any single author will be limited to at most two submissions. To avoid conflict of interests, papers authored by program committee members will be held to a significantly higher standard, and their number in the final program will be severely restricted. Reviewing will not be blind. Authors should feel free to include their affiliation in the paper, and include all references in full.

Papers will be reviewed by the program committee with the help of outside referees. The primary criterion for acceptance will be the impact of the work on the systems community and the extent to which the papers bridge gaps between different communities. Novelty, clarity of explanation and thorough evaluation will be additional criteria. Papers may be provisionally accepted, subject to further shepherding by a member of the program committee before final acceptance. The conference does not have a predefined format or a target number of accepted papers. Papers will be accepted or rejected based on their merits, and the conference will be organized in a format that accommodates the number of papers that meet that criterion.

Papers should not exceed 14 pages double column including figures and tables in standard ACM format. Papers that exceed this length will be rejected without consideration of their merit. Papers must be submitted electronically in printable postscript or pdf form. For detailed submission instructions, refer to the submission web site.

Program committee

Anastassia Ailamaki CMU Amnon Barak Hebrew University Brian Bershad University of Washington Alan Cox Rice University Thomas Gross ETHZ Steve Hand Cambridge University Maurice Herlihy Brown University Christof Fetzer Technical University of Dresden Christoph Kirsch University of Salzburg Gilles Muller Ecole des Mines, Nantes Krithi Ramaritham IIT Bombay Ant Rowstron Microsoft Research Cambridge Karsten Schwan Georgia Tech Leendert Van Doorn IBM Research Hawthorne Werner Vogels Amazon Willy Zwaenepoel EPFL (chair)

Important dates:

Registration of abstracts October 8, 2005 (mandatory) Paper submission October 15, 2005 (hard deadline) Acceptance notification January 15, 2006 Final papers due March 1, 2006 Conference April 18-21, 2006

Organizing Committee Yolande Berbers KU, Leuven (general chair) Willy Zwaenepoel EPFL (programm chair) Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA-Rennes(publicity chair)

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