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CALL FOR PAPERS</font>
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SYSTOR 2012</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The 5th Annual International Systems
and Storage Conference</font>
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</font><a href=http://systor12.systor.org/><font size=2 face="sans-serif">http://systor12.systor.org</font></a>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> In cooperation with
ACM (pending), IEEE, and USENIX</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
June 4-6, 2012</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
Haifa, Israel</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">On behalf of the 2012 Annual International
Systems and Storage</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Conference (SYSTOR 2012), we invite
you to submit original and</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">innovative papers.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">SYSTOR has a broad scope, promoting
experimental and practical</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">computer systems research encompassing
the following topics:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> * operating systems, computer
architecture, and their interaction</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> * distributed, parallel, and
cloud systems</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> * networking, mobile, wireless,
peer-to-peer, and sensor systems</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> * runtime systems, compilers,
and programming languages</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> * energy/power management</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> * file and storage systems</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> * security, privacy, and trust</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> * virtualization</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> * embedded and realtime systems</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> * fault tolerance, reliability,
and availability</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> * deployment, usage, and experience</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> * performance evaluation and
workload characterization</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">SYSTOR attempts to combine high-quality
international systems research</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">of practical nature with interactions
between the relevant industry</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">and academia communities. We therefore
solicit paper submissions in</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">four separate tracks:</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> * full research papers</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> * short research papers</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> * highlight papers (a small number
of exciting research results</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> accepted to a recent
top-tier systems conference or journal;</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> accepted submissions
will not be published in the proceedings)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> * industry papers (describing
the technologies behind real systems or</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> products and the;
authors of accepted paper decide if they</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> would be included
in the conference proceedings)</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Proceedings including all (non-highlight)
accepted papers will be</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">published by ACM. See more details at
the conference web site</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">[</font><a href=http://systor12.systor.org/><font size=2 face="sans-serif">http://systor12.systor.org</font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif">].
SYSTOR 2012 will host distinguished keynote</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">speakers, a posters session, and several
social events at the</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">conference.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">IMPORTANT DATES:</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Paper submission: Feb 13, 2012
(11:59pm GMT)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Paper notification: Mar 26, 2012
(11:59pm GMT)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Camera-ready: Apr 14, 2012 (11:59pm
GMT)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Highlights submission: Mar 12,
2012 (11:59pm GMT)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Highlights notification: Mar
26, 2012 (11:59pm GMT)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Poster submission: Apr 30, 2012
(11:59pm GMT)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Poster notification: May 07,
2012 (11:59pm GMT)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Dan Tsafrir, Technion</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Erez Zadok, Stony Brook U.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">PROGRAM COMMITTEE</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Irfan Ahmad, CloudPhysics</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Jonathan Appavoo, Boston U.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Yariv Aridor, Intel</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Eitan Bachmat, Ben-Gurion U.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Mary Baker, HP Labs</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Emery Berger, UMass Amherst</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Tsahi Birk, Technion</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Bill Bolosky, Microsoft Research</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Andre Brinkmann, JGU Mainz</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins U.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Dilma Da Silva, IBM Watson</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Eyal DeLara, U. of Toronto</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern
U.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion U.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Matan Erez, UT Austin</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Yoav Etsion, BSC</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Christof Fetzer, TU Dresden</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Roy Fridman, Technion</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Tal Garfinkel, VMware</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Sharon Goldberg, Boston U.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Thomas Gross, ETH Zurich</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Maurice Herlihy, Brown U.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, IBM India</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Gokul Kandiraju, IBM Watson</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Alexander Kipp, U. of Stuttgart</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Avi Mendelson, Microsoft</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Ethan Miller, UC Santa Cruz</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Alan Mislove, Northeastern U.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Gilles Muller, Inria</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Toshio Nakatani, IBM Tokyo</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Yale Patt, UT Austin</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Barbara Pernici, Politecnico
di Milano</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Donald Porter, Stony Brook U.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Raju Rangaswami, Florida Int'l
U.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Luis Rodrigues, IST/INESC-ID</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstadt</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Sivan Toledo, Tel-Aviv U.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Eran Tromer, Tel-Aviv U.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Martin Vechev, ETH Zurich</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Andy Wang, Florida State U.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Ric Wheeler, Redhat</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Eran Yahav, Technion</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Yuanyuan Zhou, UC San Diego</font>
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