WORKSHOP SESSIONS

Session papers are available to workshop registrants immediately and to everyone beginning April 15, 2008.

NSDI '08 and Workshops Welcome Get-Together

Welcome and Introduction

Jeff Mogul, HP Labs

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Issues Within the Scope of a Single PC

Session Chair: Richard Draves, Microsoft Research

Best Practices for the Care and Feeding of a Program Committee,
and Other Thoughts on Conference Organization
Fred Douglis, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

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What Ought a Program Committee to Do?
Mark Allman, International Computer Science Institute

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Program Committee Meetings Considered Harmful
Robbert van Renesse, Cornell University

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Paper Rating vs. Paper Ranking
John R. Douceur, Microsoft Research

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Issues Beyond the Scope of a Single PC

Session Chair: Greg Minshall, University of Washington

Overcoming Challenges of Maturity
Ken Birman, Cornell University

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Thoughts on Improving Review Quality
Paul Francis, Cornell University

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Scaling Internet Research Publication Processes to Internet Scale
Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge; S. Keshav, University of Waterloo; Nick McKeown, Stanford University

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Towards a Model of Computer Systems Research
Thomas Anderson, University of Washington

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Review-Management Software

Session Chair: Greg Minshall, University of Washington

Banal: Because Format Checking Is So Trite
Geoffrey M. Voelker, University of California, San Diego

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Hot Crap!
Eddie Kohler, University of California, Los Angeles

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Moderated Discussion/Debate/Flaming on Proposals That Go Beyond the Scope of a Single PC

Moderator: Tom Anderson, University of Washington

Moderated Discussion on Concrete Things We Can Do

Moderator: Jeff Mogul, HP Labs

Examples include: a WOWCS Wiki; a multi-conference repository for reviews; other "institutional memory"; other experiments or proofs of concept

Additional Material: "Before and After WOWCS: A literature survey, A list of papers we wish had been submitted," by Jeffrey C. Mogul and Tom Anderson

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