LISA 95 Announcement and Call for Participation

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                 ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

         9th USENIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION CONFERENCE (LISA '95)
                         September 18-22, 1995
           Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, California

Co-sponsored by
USENIX, the 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
Advanced Topics in System Administration Workshop:
	Proposals Due:  August 1, 1995
	Notification to authors:  August 14, 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.

WORKSHOP: ADVANCED TOPICS IN SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
Monday, September 18, 1995

A one-day, pre-LISA conference workshop, to be held Tuesday, September
19, 1995, will focus on a discussion of the latest-breaking technical
issues in the systems administration arena as introduced by those in
attendance.  Attendance is limited and based on acceptance of a
position paper.  Acceptance notices to all participants will be issued
by August 14, 1995.

HOW TO SUBMIT:  Potential workshop attendees are invited to submit a
proposal of at most 3 pages (ASCII) via electronic mail to jessgi.com
no later than  August 1.  These proposals should briefly contain a
topic for discussion, a description of the subject, an explanation of
what makes this topic controversial or interesting, and a personal
position.  (More substantive reports of completed  works should instead
be submitted as papers to the technical sessions.) A representative
subset of positions will be discussed in an open forum.

The workshop is being organized by John Schimmel of Silicon Graphics.
Mail these proposals to jessgi.com by August 1.  Chosen participants
will be notified by August 14.  Participants must be pre-registered for
the LISA conference.  No additional fee will be charged to attend this
workshop, and lunch will be provided.

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.

- Your plans for the year 2000
- Deployment of new networking technologies
- Coping with the commercialization of the Internet
- Support models in use at your site
- 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
+1 (510) 443-4425
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 at <itlisausenix.org> or to:

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

Peg Schafer, Harvard University
+1 (617) 495-4927
FAX: +1 (617) 496-5508
E-mail: pegharvard.edu

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Program Co-chair: Tina Darmohray, Consultant
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

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