SYSTOR 2009 - SYSTOR 2009 The Israeli Experimental Systems Conference

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Category SYSTOR 2009

Deadline: January 26, 2009 | Date: May 04, 2009

Venue/Country: Haifa, Israel

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/conferences/systor2009/

4?6 May 2009

Haifa, Israel

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 26, 2009

IBM Haifa Research Lab and IBM Systems and Technology Group Lab, in

collaboration with Israeli academia, are organizing SYSTOR 2009, a

successor to the highly successful workshops on systems and storage

held at the IBM Haifa Research Lab. The goal of the conference is to

promote systems research and to foster stronger ties between the

Israeli and worldwide systems research communities and industry.

SYSTOR 2009 will be a three-day conference combining academic and

industrial sessions. Each day will include a keynote by a well-known

international researcher on one of the conference topics. In addition,

we are planning special activities for graduate students.

Submissions of a practical and experimental nature are solicited for

the academic and industrial sessions. The conference is open to all

systems research topics, including (but not limited to):

* General computer systems issues in operating systems, architecture,

memory hierarchy, compilation, and embedded systems

* Distributed systems such as peer-to-peer systems, sensor networks,

and overlays, fault tolerance, and resource allocation

* Storage systems issues related to long term preservation, archival

storage, internet-scale storage, and replication and consistency

* Cross-cutting issues such as workload modeling, performance metrics,

power consumption, security, usability, and experience with real

systems and failures

In particular, we would like to emphasize the following themes:

* Virtualization infrastructure and virtualization-aware system design

* Multi-core architectures and the operating system facilities and

programming environments that use them

* Power consumption and management

* Managing the explosive growth in storage and the increasing need to

store, find and manage data for long periods

For the academic track:

Papers should report original research; if part of the material

submitted was published previously, the paper should so indicate and

should provide substantial additional results and material.

For the industrial track:

We are looking for technical presentations that describe the

technology behind real products and the considerations that shaped the

product's design and functionality.

Submissions

Paper submissions should be up to 14 pages in 11 pt font, in pdf

format. To submit, please use the conference submission website:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=systor2009. Submitted papers

will be reviewed by the program committee. Proceedings including all

accepted papers will be published by ACM in the ACM Digital

Library.

For the industrial track, it is acceptable to submit a short proposal

for a presentation in lieu of a full paper as described above. Please

include sufficient detail to exhibit the technical merit of the

proposed presentation. We encourage accepted industrial presentations

to also write a paper for the proceedings, but this is not

compulsory.

Important Dates:

Submission: January 26, 2009

Notification: March 20, 2009

Final Version: April 10, 2009

Student Activities

As part of the conference, students will have the opportunity to

interact with senior researchers and obtain feedback regarding their

research. To promote such interactions, we will have a poster session

where students present their work. We will also have a lunch where

members of the program committee and IBM researchers will be matched

with students for more intensive interaction.

Venue and Social Event

The conference will be held in the lovely city of Haifa, which

overlooks the Mediterranean Sea, and is home to Jews, Muslims, and

Christians. Haifa is also the world center of the Baha'i faith. A trip

will be organized to the wondrous Baha'i gardens and to areas in the

city of Jerusalem.

Advisory Committee:

Marc Auslander, IBM

Ken Birman, Cornell

Danny Dolev, HUJI

Julian Satran, IBM

Marc Snir, UIUC

Willy Zwaenepoel, EPFL

Program Chairs:

Michael Factor, IBM

Dror Feitelson, HUJI

General Chair:

Miriam Allalouf, IBM [miriama AT il.ibm.com]

Publicity Chair:

Muli Ben-Yehuda, IBM [muli AT il.ibm.com]

Publication Chair:

Gregory Chockler, IBM

Website Chair:

Avital Tuviana, IBM

Industrial Publicity Chair:

Gilad Sharaby, IBM

Program Committee:

Miriam Allalouf, IBM

Roberto Baldoni, Univ. of Rome

Muli Ben-Yehuda, IBM

Tsahi Birk, Technion

Gregory Chockler, IBM

Dilma Da Silva, IBM

Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion Univ.

David Du, NSF

Greg Ganger, CMU

Sami Iren, Seagate

Nikolai Jukov, IBM

Idit Keidar, Technion

Israel Koren, UMASS

Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson Univ./VMware

Avi Mendelson, Intel

Ethan Miller, UCSC

David Nagle, Google

Erich Nahum, IBM

Danny Raz, Technion

Scott Rixner, Rice University

Larry Rudolph, VMware

Liuba Shrira, Brandeis

Neeraj Suri, TUD

Sivan Toledo, Tel-Aviv Univ.

Dan Tsafrir, IBM

Erez Zadok, Stony Brook