Because of the change, we are allowing people to submit papers that would
be in conflict with a pending SIGCOMM submission. If SIGCOMM accepts the
earlier submission, the submission to USITS must be withdrawn.
We are also allowing people to submit somewhat concurrently to a related
event,
The Joint Symposium ASA/MA'99:
First International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications
(ASA'99)
Third International Symposium on Mobile Agents (MA'99)
(See http://www.genmagic.com/asa/).
Please see the attached CFP for full details.
------- Forwarded Message
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 00:54:21 +0000
From: toni@usenix.org (Toni Veglia)
Subject: EARLIER SUBMISSION DEADLINE - Symposium on Internet Tech &
Systems
2nd USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems
October 11-14, 1999
Regal Harvest House Hotel
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association
Co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Internetworking
NOTE: EARLIER DEADLINES!
=====================================================
IMPORTANT DUE DATES FOR REFEREED PAPER SUBMISSIONS
Extended abstracts due: March 25, 1999
Hard deadline for submissions: April 1, 1999
Notification to authors: May 14, 1999
Full papers for editorial review: July 23, 1999
Camera-ready full papers: August 31, 1999
=====================================================
SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS
====================
PROGRAM CHAIR
Fred Douglis, AT&T Labs-Research
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Eric Brewer, University of California Berkeley and Inktomi
Dan Connolly, W3C
Peter Honeyman, University of Michigan
David B. Johnson, Carnegie Mellon University
P. Krishnan, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Geoff Kuenning, University of California Los Angeles
Yoelle Maarek, IBM Haifa Research Lab
Udi Manber, University of Arizona
Jeffrey Mogul, Compaq Computer Corp, Western Research Lab
Katia Obraczka, Information Sciences Institute
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, demos, panel discussions, and Birds-of-a-Feather
sessions.
TUTORIALS, OCTOBER 11, 1999
===========================
Tutorials for technical staff, researchers, managers, and students
will provide immediately useful, practical information on topics such
as Web security, XML, and Internet performance.
If you are interested in proposing a tutorial, contact the USENIX
tutorial coordinator, Dan Klein, by phone at +1.412.422.0285 or by
email to dvk@usenix.org
TECHNICAL SESSIONS, OCTOBER 12-14, 1999
=======================================
The Internet continues to evolve in interesting and unexpected ways.
Electronic commerce, mobility, streaming media, and other developments
are driving the creation of new applications, protocols, security
models, and systems. Recent application-level changes, such as XML,
may dramatically improve the functionality of the Web. What's next?
USITS emphasizes 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. Case studies and experience papers are
particularly of interest.
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 to demonstrate their work outside of their presentation in a
more relaxed and interactive environment.
TOPICS
======
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Distributed caching and replication
* Electronic Commerce
* IPv6
* Information indexing/retrieval/management
* Internet agents
* Java, Inferno, Safe-Tcl, Python, and other "Internet programming" tools
* Performance (network, server, end-to-end)
* Resource discovery
* Security
Note that just because a paper is about Java (for instance) does not
mean it pertains to the Internet. Off-topic papers will be referred
to other forums.
BEST PAPER AWARDS
=================
Awards will be given for the best paper and best student paper at the
conference.
WHAT TO SUBMIT
================
Authors must submit an extended abstract by March 25, 1999. This should
be 5-7 pages long or about 2500-3500 words, not counting references and
figures. In addition, you may submit a full paper for use by the program
committee if there are questions about the abstract, but the full paper
is not required. Longer submissions, not accompanied by an appropriate
extended abstract, 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 concurrently submitted for publication
elsewhere, with two specific exceptions (see Concurrent Submissions
below).
The objective of an extended abstract is to convince the reviewers that
a good paper and 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.
Please read the detailed author guidelines at
<http://www.usenix.org/events/usits99/guidelines.html>,
or send email to usits99authors@usenix.org
CONCURRENT SUBMISSIONS
==========================
Because the submission deadline for USITS was moved to precede the
notification deadline for SIGCOMM'99, we will permit authors to submit
papers to USITS that are substantially similar to SIGCOMM
submissions. These USITS submissions must be identified as being
dependent on rejection from SIGCOMM.
In addition, the TFIW and the USENIX Association are cosponsoring
ASA/MA'99, which will take place shortly before USITS. The organizers
of USITS'99 and ASA/MA'99 recognize that some papers are appropriate
for either conference. By special arrangement, a single paper can be
submitted to both conferences, and then withdrawn from ASA if accepted
at USITS. If the USITS program committee rejects a paper that has been
designated as being appropriate for ASA, it will forward the
reviewers` comments to the ASA program committee.
HOW TO SUBMIT
===============
Submissions should be done electronically. A form is provided
at http://www.research.att.com/~douglis/usits_submission.html
to facilitate submission and ensure that all submissions provide
all the information that is required. This information includes:
1. The title of the paper and the names and affiliations of all authors.
(Note: authors' names and affiliations will be known to the reviewers).
2. The name, email and postal addresses, day and evening phone numbers,
and a fax number if available, of one author who will serve as a
contact.
3. An indication of which, if any, of the authors are full-time
students.
4. An indication as to whether the submission is substantially similar to
a pending SIGCOMM submission, or whether a substantially similar paper may
be submitted to ASA'99/MA'99. These two cases of possible overlap are
mutually exclusive and are the only cases where overlapping submissions
are acceptable. See http://www.usenix.org/events/usits99/cfp.html for
details.
The paper itself must be emailed, preferably as a MIME base64 attachment,
to usits99papers@usenix.org. If you cannot complete the form, provide
the above information via email to the same address as a separate
attachment or in a separate message.
The alternate method of submission will remain postal mail; you may mail
15 copies of your submission to:
Fred Douglis
AT&T Labs-Research
Shannon Laboratory
Room B137
180 Park Avenue, Bldg 103
Florham Park, NJ 07932-0971
phone: +1.973.360.8775
All submissions will be acknowledged electronically; you must provide
an email address. If you have not received an acknowledgment within 48
hours of submitting your abstract electronically (or the submission
deadline, if the submission is early), please contact the program chair
at douglis@usenix.org.
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? Works-in-progress reports are for
you! Works-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 usits99wips@usenix.org
Registration Materials
Materials containing all details of the technical and tutorial programs,
registration fees and forms, and hotel information will be available
online at http://www.usenix.org/events/usits99/ and in print in August
1999. If you wish to receive the printed registration materials, please
contact USENIX at:
USENIX Conference Office
22672 Lambert Street, Suite 613
Lake Forest, CA 92630 USA
+1 949-588-8649;
Fax +1 949-588-9706
email: conference@usenix.org
------- End of Forwarded Message