USENIX - Call for Papers - Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems

Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems

December 8-11, 1997
Monterey, California

DATES FOR REFEREED PAPER SUBMISSIONS

Extended abstracts due: July 8, 1997
Notification to authors: August 12, 1997
Full papers due for editorial review: September 24, 1997
Camera-ready full papers due: October 22, 1997

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Carl Staelin, Hewlett-Packard (Chair)
Mary Baker, Stanford University
Matt Blaze, AT&T Laboratories
Eric Brewer, U.C. Berkeley and Inktomi
Paul De Bra, Eindhoven University
Richard Golding, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Larry McVoy, Silicon Graphics
Pat Parseghian, Transmeta
Margo Seltzer, Harvard University
Doug Tygar, Carnegie-Mellon University

OVERVIEW

The goal of this symposium is to bring together engineers and researchers interested in developing innovative Internet applications and technology. This will be a 3.5 day symposium, with 1 day of tutorials, followed by 2.5 days of refereed paper presentations, invited talks, works-in-progress presentations, vendor displays/demos, panel discussions, and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions.

TUTORIALS
December 8, 1997

Tutorials for both technical staff and managers will provide immediately useful, practical information on topics such as java, Tcl/Tk, Web security, robots/spiders, and intranet architectures. If you are interested in proposing a tutorial, contact the tutorial coordinator, Dan Klein: phone 412.421.2332 email dvk@usenix.org.

TECHNICAL SESSIONS
December 9-11, 1997

The explosion of the Internet and World-Wide-Web technology has led to the development of many new systems and the overload of the current Internet infrastructure. It has also created a critical need for many new technologies, such as Web indexing and searching. We are especially interested in papers that describe new applications and systems that were not feasible or necessary before the advent of the Web.

USITS will emphasize both innovative research and quantified experience in Internet applications, technologies, and systems. We seek papers describing original work concerning the design, implementation, and application of Internet technologies. Besides mature work, we encourage submissions describing exceptionally promising prototypes, or enlightening negative results.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Internet agents (for searching, ...).
Information indexing/retrieval/management
Resource discovery
Distributed caching
Groupware
Intranet applications
Security
Electronic Commerce
Java, Inferno, Safe-Tcl, and other "Internet programming" tools
Performance
Case studies and experience papers
Web-optimized subsystem architectures

Where appropriate, authors will be able to demonstrate their applications during their presentation using computers linked to the audio-visual system and the Internet. Also, space will be available to authors in the vendor display room to demonstrate their work outside of their presentation in a more relaxed and interactive environment.

WHAT TO SUBMIT

Authors must submit an extended abstract by July 8, 1997. This should be 5-7 pages long or about 2500-3500 words, not counting references and figures. Longer submissions will be penalized in the review process. The full papers resulting from accepted abstracts will go through an editorial review cycle with a member of the program committee, and should end up about 10-12 pages long. Very similar papers must not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

The object of an extended abstract is to convince the reviewers that a good paper and a 25-minute presentation will result. It is important to identify what has been accomplished, to explain why it is significant, and to compare with prior work in the field, demonstrating knowledge of the relevant literature. The extended abstract should represent the paper in "short form." It must include the abstract as it will appear in the final paper. The body of the extended abstract should be complete paragraphs, not just an outline of the paper. (Sections present in the full paper but omitted from the abstract may be summarized in terse form.) Authors should include full references, figures when available, and as is usually appropriate, performance data. Such data also help indicate the status of the implementation, often a crucial issue. The abstract will be judged on significance, originality, clarity, relevance, and correctness. (All submissions will be held in the highest confidence prior to publication. Papers accompanied by so called "non-disclosure agreement" forms are not acceptable and will be returned unread.)

If you would like to receive detailed guidelines for submission and examples of extended abstracts, you may send email to: usitsauthors@usenix.org or telephone the USENIX Association office at 510.528.8649.

WHERE TO SUBMIT

Please send one copy of an extended abstract to the program chair via US Mail and if possible another copy via email. All submissions will be acknowledged.

Email postscript, HTML, or ASCII: usitspapers@usenix.org
Paper mail: Carl Staelin; Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, M/S 3L-9; 1501 Page Mill Road; Palo Alto, CA 94303; 415.857.6823; staelin@hpl.hp.com

For administrative reasons (not blind reviewing), every submission should include one additional page containing:

paper title
author names, indicating any that are full-time students
for the author who will be the contact to the program committee: author's name; paper mail address; daytime and evening telephone numbers; FAX number; email address

WORK-IN-PROGRESS REPORTS

Do you have interesting work you would like to share, or a cool idea that is not ready to be published? Work-in-progress reports are for you! Work-in-progress reports, scheduled during the technical sessions, introduce new or ongoing work. The USENIX audience provides valuable discussion and feedback. We are particularly interested in presentations of student work. To schedule your report, please contact the Works-in-progress coordinator at usitswips@usenix.org.

VENDOR DISPLAY AND DEMONSTRATIONS

USITS will feature both vendor displays and demonstrations of technologies and systems presented in some of the refereed presentations. Authors will be able to demonstrate their work in a more relaxed and interactive environment. Vendors will demonstrate the technical innovations which distinguish their products, and attendees can "kick the tires" and play with the systems.

We invite you to take part in the Vendor Display.

Authors of papers interested in offering a demonstration, please contact:

Cynthia Deno

cynthia@usenix.org

Phone: 408.335.9445

Fax 408.335.5327

REGISTRATION MATERIALS

Materials containing all details of the technical and tutorial programs, registration fees and forms, and hotel information will be mailed September 1997. If you wish to receive the registration materials, please contact Usenix at:

Usenix Conference Office

22672 Lambert Street, Suite 613

Lake Forest, CA 92630 USA

+1 714-588-8649; Fax +1 714-588-9706

email: conference@usenix.org