CFP (3rd): Sixth SIGOPS European Workshop - Matching Operating Systems to Application Needs

[nehmer@informatik.uni-kl.de (Prof. Dr. J. Nehmer)]

        		3rd Call For Papers

        	Sixth SIGOPS European Workshop:
        "Matching Operating Systems to Application Needs"


		September 14-16 1994,
      		Internationales Begegnungszentrum fuer Informatik,
      		Schloss Dagstuhl, D-66687 Wadern, Germany,
		sponsored by ACM SIGOPS


With the dramatic increase of hardware performance, and the increasing
complexity of applications, operating system designers are torn
between simplicity of design and ever-increasing user demands and
expectations.
Many consider today's commercial operating systems to be unprincipled
and bloated, but despite all their features they still do not
match application needs.
For instance, database implementors work their storage system around
the limitations of the OS-provided file system.
Hypertext or CAD systems are based on shared, persistent objects, not
well supported by current systems.
Developers are frustrated with systems that hide hardware
functions completely or that encapsulate it in thick layers of
software, so that potential benefits are lost.

This workshop (the sixth of the biennial series organized by SIGOPS,
the ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems) will discuss the
origins of this gap and what can be done about it.
We solicit submissions from application and system builders.
Some possible topics include the impact on operating systems of:

      - application and user interface requirements on
        systems, e.g.,
            large, widely-shared servers,
            integration of multimedia applications,
            or personal digital assistants (PDAs);

      - abstractions from applications or languages, e.g.,
            objects,
            client-server computing,
            or distributed shared memory;

      - hardware advances such as
          multiprocessing,
          multi-Gb/s networks,
          or wireless digital communication;

      - specific application needs (as for airline reservation systems)
        or qualities of service, such as security and fault tolerance.

Attendance is limited to 50 people, by invitation only.
Persons interested should send 8 copies of a short (1200 word or less)
position paper to the general chair, at the address listed below.
Electronic submission is _not_ accepted.
Papers will be selected on the basis of ability to foster discussion,
originality and appropriateness to the workshop topic.
Accepted position papers will be distributed to the workshop
attendees.
A small number of papers may be selected for subsequent publication in
a special issue of Operating Systems Review.
Late submissions will not be considered.
Submissions should identify a principal contact author by
e-mail address and/or fax and/or telephone number, and postal address.
Send in 8 copies (hard copies) to the general chair.


                General Chair:

                Juergen Nehmer, Universitaet Kaiserslautern
                Fachbereich Informatik, D-67653 Kaiserslautern,
                Postfach 3049, Germany  (phone: +49-631-205-4020)


      Important dates:

      Position papers due:    May 1, 1994
      Acceptance notified:    June 10, 1994
      Camera-ready:           August 1, 1994
      Workshop date:          Sept. 14--16, 1994


      Program Committee:

      Oezalp Babaoglu, U. di Bologna
      Andy Hopper,  Olivetti Res., Cambridge U.
      Frans Kaashoek, MIT
      Sacha Krakowiak, Bull-IMAG
      Paul Leach, Microsoft/Univ. Washington
      Marc Rozier, Chorus Systemes
      Marc Shapiro, INRIA Rocq., Cornell U.

      Program Chair: Marc Shapiro