LISA 9 Call for Participation

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                        ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

             9th USENIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION CONFERENCE (LISA IX)
                            September 18-22, 1995
                                Marriott Hotel
                             Monterey, California

Co-sponsored by USENIX,
the UNIX and Advanced Computing Systems Professional and Technical Association,
and SAGE,
the System Administrators Guild

IMPORTANT DATES

Refereed paper submissions:
Extended abstracts due:  May 1, 1995
Notification to authors: June 5, 1995
Final papers due: August 1, 1995

Registration materials available: July, 1995

The USENIX Systems Administration (LISA) Conference is widely
recognized as the leading technical conference for system
administrators.  Historically, LISA stood for "Large Installation
Systems Administration," back in the days when having a large
installation meant having over 100 users, over 100 systems, or over one
gigabyte of disk storage.  Today, the scope of the LISA conference
includes topics of interest to system administrators from sites of all
sizes and kinds.  What the conference attendees have in common is an
interest in solving problems that cannot be dealt with simply by
scaling up well-understood solutions appropriate to a single machine or
a small number of workstations on a LAN.

The theme for this year's conference is "New Challenges," which
includes such emerging issues as integration of non-UNIX and
proprietary systems and networking technologies, distributed
information services, network voice and video teleconferencing, and
managing very complex networks.  We are particularly interested in
technical papers that reflect hands-on experience, describe fully
implemented and freely distributable solutions, and advance the state
of the art of system administration as an engineering discipline.

TUTORIAL PROGRAM
Monday and Tuesday, September 18-19, 1995

The two-day tutorial program at the conference offers up to five tracks
of full- and half-day tutorials.  Tutorials offer expert instruction in
areas of interest to system administrators of all levels, from novice
through senior.  Topics are expected to include networking, advanced
system administration tools, Solaris and BSD administration, Perl
programming, firewalls, NIS, DNS, Sendmail, and more.

To provide the best possible tutorial offerings, USENIX continually
solicits proposals for new tutorials.  If you are interested in
presenting a tutorial at this or other USENIX conferences, please
contact the tutorial coordinator:

Daniel V. Klein
+1  412  421 0285
FAX: +1  412 421 2332
E-mail: dvkusenix.org

TECHNICAL SESSIONS
Wednesday through Friday, September 20-22, 1995

The three days of technical sessions consist of two parallel
tracks.  The first track is dedicated to presentations of refereed
technical papers.  The second track is intended to accommodate invited
talks, panels and Works-in-Progress (WIP) sessions.

CONFERENCE TOPICS
Papers addressing the following topics are particularly timely;
papers addressing other technical areas of general interest
are equally welcome.

% Dealing with differences in UNIX implementations -- migration and
  interoperability among BSD, SVR4, OSF and others
% Integration of UNIX-based with non-UNIX-based and proprietary
  systems and networking technologies (Mac, NT and DOS PCs)
% Application of emerging technologies (Mbone, Mosaic) to system
  administration
% Administration and security of distributed information services
  (WAIS, gopher, WWW) and network voice and video teleconferencing
  (Mbone)
% Experience supporting mobile and location-independent computing
% Experience with large (1000+ machine) networks, especially
  networks of SVR4-based systems
% Real-world experience with implementations of proposed system
  administration standards
% Unusual applications of commercial system administration software packages
% Application of operational planning techniques to system administration
  including measurements and metrics, continuous process improvement,
  automation, and increasing productivity
% File migration, archival storage and backup systems in extremely
  large environments
% Innovative tools and techniques that have worked for you
% Managing high-demand and high-availability environments
% Migrating to new hardware and software technologies
% Administration of remote sites that have no technical experts
% Supporting MIS organizations on UNIX
% Real-world experiences with emerging procedural/ethical issues --
  e.g., developing site policies, tracking abusers, and implementing
  solutions to security problems
% Networking non-traditional sites (libraries, museums, K-12)

REFEREED PAPER SUBMISSIONS
An extended abstract is required for the paper selection process.
Full papers are not acceptable at this stage; if you send a full
paper, you must also include an extended abstract. "Extended"
means 2-5 pages.

Include references to establish that you are familiar with related
work, and, where possible, provide detailed performance data to
establish that you have a working implementation or measurement tool.

Submissions will be judged on the quality of the written submission,
and whether or not the work advances the state of the art of system
administration. For more detailed author instructions and a sample
extended abstract, send email to lisa9authorsusenix.org. or
call USENIX at +1 510 528 8649.

Note that the USENIX organization, like most conferences and journals,
requires that papers not be submitted simultaneously to more than one
conference or publication and that submitted papers not be previously
or subsequently published elsewhere.  Papers accompanied by
"non-disclosure agreement" forms are not acceptable and will be
returned unread.  All submissions are held in the highest confidence
prior to publication in the conference proceedings, both as a
matter of policy and as protected by the U.S. Copyright Act
of 1976.

Authors of an accepted paper must provide a final paper for publication
in the conference proceedings.  At least one author of each accepted
paper presents the paper at the conference.  Final papers are
limited to 20 pages, including diagrams, figures and appendixes, and
must be in troff, ASCII, or LaTeX format.  We will supply you with
instructions.  Papers should include a brief description of the site,
where appropriate.

Conference proceedings, containing all refereed papers and materials
from the invited talks, will be distributed to attendees and
will also be available from the USENIX following the conference.

WHERE TO SEND SUBMISSIONS
Please submit extended abstracts for the refereed paper track by
two of the following methods:

% E-mail to: lisa9papersusenix.org
% FAX to: +1  510  548 5738
% Mail to:
  LISA 9 Conference
  USENIX Association
  2560 Ninth Street, Suite 215,
  Berkeley, CA USA 94710

To discuss potential submissions, and for inquiries regarding the
content of the conference program, contact the program co-chairs
at lisa9chairusenix.org or at:

Tina M. Darmohray
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
PO Box 808 L-510
Livermore, CA USA 94550
+1  510 423 5999
FAX: +1  510  422 7869
E-mail: tmdusenix.org

Paul Evans
Synopsys, Inc.
700 East Middlefield Road
Mountain View, CA USA 94043
+1  415  694 1855
FAX: +1  415  965 8637
E-mail: pleusenix.org

INVITED TALK TRACK
If you have a topic of general interest to system
administrators, but that is not suited for a traditional technical
paper submission, please submit a proposal for a second track
presentation to the invited talk (IT) coordinators:

Laura de Leon, Hewlett-Packard
+1  415  857 5605
FAX: +1  415  857 5686
E-mail: deleonhpl.hp.com

Peg Schafer, BBN
+1  617  873-2626
FAX: +1 617 873 4265
E-mail: pegbbn.com

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Program Co-chair: Tina Darmohray, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Program Co-chair: Paul Evans, Synopsys, Inc.
Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh
Kim Carney, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rob Kolstad, Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
Bryan McDonald, SRI International
Marcus Ranum, Trusted Information Systems, Inc.
John Schimmel, Silicon Graphics, Inc.

VENDOR DISPLAY
Wednesday, September 20, 1995
Well-informed vendor representatives will demonstrate products and
services at the informal table-top display.  If your company
would like to participate, please contact:

Zanna Knight
+1 510  528 8649
FAX: +1 510  548 5738
E-mail: displayusenix.org

BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER SESSIONS

Birds-of-a-Feather sessions (BoFs) are very informal gatherings of
attendees interested in a particular topic.  BoFs are held Tuesday,
Wednesday, and Thursday evenings of the conference.  BoFs may be
scheduled in advance by telephoning the USENIX Conference Office
at +1 714 588 8649 or via e-mail to conferenceusenix.org.  They
may also be scheduled at the conference.

FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION
All details of the conference program, conference registration
fees and forms, and hotel discount and reservation information
will be available in July, 1995. If you wish to receive
registration materials, please contact:

USENIX Conference Office
22672 Lambert Street, Suite 613
Lake Forest, CA USA 92630
+1  714  588 8649
FAX: +1  714 588 9706
E-mail: conferenceusenix.org

For more information about USENIX and its events, access
the USENIX Resource Center on the World Wide Web.  The URL
is http://www.usenix.org.  OR send email to our mailserver
at infousenix.org.  Your message should contain the line:
send catalog.  A catalog will be returned to you.