[AISWorld] CFP: USENIX LISA submissions due Friday, April 18

Thu Apr 10 16:35:55 EDT 2014

Call for Papers and Posters: USENIX LISA
https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14/call-for-participation/papers-posters
https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14/call-for-participation/submitting-papers-and-posters

Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association in
cooperation with LOPSA

LISA '14 will take place November 9-14, 2014, in Seattle, WA.

Important Dates

Submissions due: April 18, 2014, 11:59 p.m. PDT Deadline Extended!
Author review and response period: May 9-15, 2014
Author notification: May 23, 2014
Final reports and papers due: August 19, 2014
Poster proposals due: April 18, 2014, 11:59 p.m. PDT Deadline Extended!
Notification to poster presenters: October 14, 2014

Publishing at USENIX LISA Means Industry Impact and Recognition

LISA is the premier conference for system administrators from all areas of
technology to come together and exchange ideas. Papers published here get
visibility and recognition from our reviewers and attendees, who are a
unique group of researchers and practitioners, truly embedded in the
building and operation of the systems that run the world. For a researcher,
publishing at LISA proves that your work is relevant and applicable to
industry. Many tools--such as CFEngine, which has transformed our approach
to systems management--have had their key publications at USENIX LISA. There
is no other conference where the potential for industry impact is as high!

USENIX Stands for Open Access and Moving the World Forward

USENIX has a clear stance on open access and strongly maintains that
research is meant for the community as a whole. Your paper and your
presentation will be available online at no charge, where it can have the
most impact and reach the broadest possible audience. Your paper will also
be part of the conference proceedings with its own ISBN.

Topics of Interest

LISA is interested in papers that cover everything related to the field and
area of system administration. We welcome papers in several areas,
including but not limited to:

Cloud computing

Cloud infrastructure management
Cloud performance tuning
Cloud architectures
Cloud best practices
Cloud operating systems

Systems engineering

Configuration management
Deployment automation
Continuous integration
Release engineering
Automated testing

Software-defined networking (SDN)
Large-scale computing

High-performance computing

Security

Authentication

Developer/operations (DevOps)
Monitoring and analytics

Visualization of metrics
Metric analysis methods
Tools and approaches for metric collection

IT management methods
Creating a positive ops culture

System administration profession
Education and training
Interest organizations

Our refereed papers describe new techniques, tools, theories, inventions,
and present case histories that extend our understanding of system and
network administration. They present new ideas, backed by rigorous and
repeatable methodology, in the context of previous related work, and can
have a broad impact on operations and future research.

System administration is a broad topic, and good papers take a variety of
approaches. A few examples include:

Description/analysis of a new technique, tool, technology, or theory
Applying an existing technique, tool, etc., in a novel or perhaps
controversial way
Critical analysis of the alternatives for solving a common problem,
including new recommendations
New lessons learned from a detailed and honest evaluation of a case study

The crucial component of all of these is something new or timely, perhaps
controversial, and something that was not previously available, discussed,
considered, or recognized.

Cash prizes will be awarded at the conference for the best refereed paper
and the best refereed paper with a student as lead author.

Posters

The program committee realizes that potential authors may not be quite
ready to submit their work as a refereed paper. This is where the poster
session comes to the rescue. If you have been researching an idea but you
haven't had the resources to construct a full paper or if you are working
on an idea and would like feedback and insights from industry
professionals, you should strongly consider submitting a poster.  There are
several advantages to presenting your work in this fashion:

Your poster abstract (500 words or less) will be published in the LISA '14
Proceedings and your research site will be linked off the conference page.
You will get valuable feedback from the community on the clarity and value
of, and perceived obstacles to, your research in its current form, which
will enable you to improve the quality of your future submission to LISA.
An accepted paper primarily receives attention during a small question and
answer window at the end of its presentation. Your poster will be a subject
of conversation throughout the entire poster session period and probably
beyond.
Your poster is an immediate icebreaker that will help you make new friends
and other contacts at one of the highest attended USENIX conferences.

We hope that you will consider sharing your ongoing research with the LISA
community. Please note that the deadline for poster abstracts this year is
April 18, 2014, the same as for paper submissions. If you have any
questions beyond this CFP, please contact lisa14posters at usenix.org.

For submission information, see
https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14/call-for-participation/submitting-papers-and-posters

Conference Organizers

Program Chair

Nicole Forsgren Velasquez, Utah State University

Content Coordinators

Amy Rich, Mozilla Corporation
Adele Shakal, Metacloud

Research Committee Co-Chairs

Kyrre Begnum
Marc Chiarini, MarkLogic Corporation

Research Committee

Theophilus Benson, Duke University
Adam Oliner

Invited Talks Coordinators

Patrick Cable
Doug Hughes
Matthew Simmons, Northeastern University

Invited Talks Committee

John Looney, Google, Inc.
Branson Matheson, SGT
Gareth Rushgrove, Government Digital Service, UK
Jeffrey Snover, Microsoft
Mandi Walls, Opscode Inc.
John Willis

Workshops Coordinator

Cory Lueninghoener, Los Alamos National Laboratory

USENIX Board Liaisons

David Blank-Edelman, Northeastern University College of Computer and
Information Science
Carolyn Rowland, NIST

Tutorial Coordinators

Rik Farrow, Security Consultant
Tom Limoncelli, Stack Exchange
Matthew Simmons, Northeastern University

LISA Lab Hack Space Chair

Paul Krizak, Qualcomm

LISA Lab Hack Space Coordinators

Chris McEniry
Chris St. Pierre, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Local Chair

Lee Damon, University of Washington

--
Nicole Forsgren Velasquez, PhD
Assistant Professor
Utah State University

www.nicolefv.com
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