Fifth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
			      (OSDI '02)
		        December 9-11, 2002
			 Boston Park Plaza
		      Boston, Massachusetts, USA
	       http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi02/cfp/




Sponsored by USENIX, The Advanced Computing Systems Association
Co-sponsored by IEEE TCOS (pending) and ACM SIGOPS

http://www.usenix.org/graphics/pdficon.gif Call for Papers
in PDF Format

Important Dates

Paper submissions due May 17, 2002
Notification to authors August 5, 2002
Revised papers due for shepherding September 9, 2002
Camera-ready papers due October 7, 2002

Symposium Organizers

Program co-chairs
David Culler, University of California, Berkeley
Peter Druschel, Rice University

Program Committee

Eric Brewer, University of California, Berkeley
Miguel Castro, Microsoft Research
Carla Ellis, Duke University
Dawson Engler, Stanford University
Deborah Estrin, UCLA/ISI
Greg Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University
Jim Gray, Microsoft Research
Jay Lepreau, University of Utah
Robert Morris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Timothy Roscoe, Sprint Labs
Chandu Thekkath, Microsoft Research
David Weatherall, University of Washington

Steering Committee
Mike Jones, Microsoft Research
Frans Kaashoek, MIT

Symposium Overview

The fifth OSDI seeks to present innovative, exciting work in the
systems area. OSDI brings together professionals from academic and
industrial backgrounds in what has become a premier forum for
discussing the design, implementation, and implications of systems
software.

The OSDI Symposium emphasizes both innovative research and quantified
experience. OSDI takes a broad view of what the systems area
encompasses and solicits contributions from all fields of systems
practice: operating systems, networking, storage, distributed systems,
parallel systems, mobile systems, embedded systems, the influence of
hardware developments on systems and vice-versa, etc. We particularly
encourage contributions containing highly original ideas or
groundbreaking results that push the systems frontier.  Submitting a
Paper

Authors are required to submit full papers by the May 17, 2002
deadline. This is a hard deadline -- no extensions will be
given. Submitted papers must be no longer than 14 single-spaced 8.5" x
11" pages, including figures, tables, and references, using 11 point
or larger fonts. Papers longer than 14 pages will not be
reviewed. Papers so short as to be considered "extended abstracts"
will not receive full consideration. A good paper will demonstrate
that the authors:

    * are attacking a significant problem,
    * have devised an interesting, compelling solution,
    * have demonstrated the practicality and benefits of the solution,
    * have drawn appropriate conclusions,
    * have clearly described what they have done, and
    * have clearly articulated the advances beyond previous work

Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest,
clarity, relevance, and correctness. Accepted papers will be
shepherded through an editorial review process by a member of the
program committee.

OSDI, like most conferences and journals, requires that papers not be
submitted simultaneously to any other conference or publication, that
submissions not be previously published, and that accepted papers not
be subsequently published elsewhere. Papers accompanied by
non-disclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be returned
to the author(s) unread. All submissions are held in the highest
confidentiality prior to publication in the Proceedings, both as a
matter of policy and in accord with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976.

Authors of accepted papers will be expected to provide an HTML page
containing the abstract of and links to their paper and slides, and if
available, to the software described in their paper. This will be
collected after the event for inclusion in an electronic version of
the Symposium.

Deadline and Submission Instructions

Submitted papers must be received by Friday, May 17, 2002. Submission
of all papers must be made in electronic form.This is a hard deadline
-- no extensions will be given.

Papers must be in PostScript or PDF format (not ASCII) and must be
submitted using our Web submission form.

The first page of the paper should also contain the paper title and
author name(s). (Reviewing is not blind.)

For more details on the submission process, authors are encouraged to
consult the detailed on-line author guidelines.

All submissions will be acknowledged by Monday, August 5, 2002. If
your submission is not acknowledged by this date, please contact the
program chairs promptly at osdi02chairs@usenix.org.

Best Paper Awards

Awards will be given for the best paper at the symposium and best
student paper.

Work-in-Progress Reports

Are you doing new, interesting work that has not been previously presented and that is still in too early a phase for publication? The OSDI attendees could provide valuable feedback to you. We are particularly interested in the presentation of student work. Details on submitting Work-in-Progress session proposals will be made available on the symposium Web site by September 2002.
Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions

Birds-of-a-Feather sessions (BoFs) are very informal gatherings
organized by attendees interested in a particular topic. BoFs may be
scheduled in advance by phoning the Conference Office at +1 (510)
528-8649 or via email to conference@usenix.org. BoFs may also be
scheduled at the symposium.  Registration Materials

Complete program and registration information will be available in
September 2002 here on the symposium Web site. The information will be
in both html and a printable PDF file. If you would like to receive
the program booklet in print, please email your request, including
your postal address, to: conference@usenix.org.