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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: USENIX Annual Tech '07 Call for Papers Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:09:44 -0800 From: Lionel Garth Jones lgj@usenix.org

--------------------------------------- Call for Papers 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference June 17-22, 2006, Santa Clara, CA Paper Submissions Deadline: January 9, 2007 http://www.usenix.org/usenix07/cfpa/ ---------------------------------------

Dear Colleague,

On behalf of the 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference program committee, we request your ideas, proposals, and papers for tutorials, refereed papers, and a poster session.

The program committee invites you to submit original and innovative papers to the Refereed Papers Track of the 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. Authors are required to submit full papers by 11:59 p.m. PST, Tuesday, January 9, 2007.

We seek high-quality submissions that further the knowledge and understanding of modern computing systems, with an emphasis on practical implementations and experimental results. We encourage papers that break new ground or present insightful results based on experience with computer systems. The USENIX conference has a broad scope.

Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Architectual interaction * Benchmarking * Deployment experience * Distributed and parallel systems * Embedded systems * Energy/power management * File and storage systems * Networking and network services * Operating systems * Reliability, availability, and scalability * Security, privacy, and trust * System and network management * Usage studies and workload characterization * Virtualization * Web technology * Wireless and mobile systems

More information on these and other submission guidelines is available on our Web site:

http://www.usenix.org/usenix07/cfpa/

IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submissions due: Tuesday, January 9, 2007, 11:59 p.m. PST Notification to authors: Monday, March 19, 2007 Final papers due: Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Please note that January 9 is a hard deadline; no extensions will be given.

We look forward to your submissions.

On behalf of the Annual Tech '07 Conference Organizers,

Jeff Chase, Duke University Srinivasan Seshan, Carnegie Mellon University 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference Program Co-Chairs usenix07chairs@usenix.org