USENIX - LISA 2001 - Call for Papers

Call for Papers

Technical Track and Symposia

Tutorials, Invited Talks, Workshops, WIPs, and BOFs

TECHNICAL TRACK AND SYMPOSIA

The Program Committee invites authors to submit papers for refereeing, or proposals for symposium presentations, on any aspect of network and system administration. Contributions will be judged for their clarity, technical content, timeliness, and originality.

Papers should be original works, reported in the context of 'the big picture', i.e. referring to past work, and suggesting directions for future research. The year 2001 is ripe with symbolism and we wish to celebrate this with a visionary LISA, which looks forward to new challenges, possibilities, and technologies. We particularly encourage contributions which:

Look forward to future technologies and methods
Report impartially on experiments testing new ideas
Develop testable hypotheses for future investigation
Explore the plausibility of new approaches, and the longevity of established ones
Deepen our understanding of interaction between humans and machine
Protect systems from being overwhelmed by scale and diversity
Protect systems for the onslaught of computer warfare
Discuss how sysadmin roles are changing

This year we introduce the concept of "short paper", for topics which we judge to be of sufficient interest interest to the conference, but which do not require a full paper. Short papers will have a page limit of 4-6 pages. Authors may submit a paper for consideration as a short paper, or the paper referees may recommend acceptance as a short paper. The final decision will be made by the program committee.

Best Paper Awards
Cash prizes will be awarded at the conference for the best paper and for the best paper by a student. Prizes are for papers accepted to the refereed paper track.