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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">SYSTOR 2013 Call for papers - Sponsored by Technion - Israel Institute of Technology</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS, USENIX and the Technion Center of Excellence (TCE)</span><br>
<a href="http://systor13.systor.org"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC">http://systor13.systor.org</span></b></a><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Industrial sponsorship from Google, IBM, Axcient, NetApp, EMC, HP, Riverbed, SAP and Intel</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">We invite you to submit original and innovative papers to SYSTOR 2013, the 6th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference. The conference will take place June 30 - July 2,
2013 in Haifa, Israel, shortly following the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2013) in Tel Aviv.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4F4F4F">SYSTOR promotes experimental and practical computer systems research including (but not limited to) the following topics:</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4F4F4F">* </span>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2F2F2F">operating systems, computer architecture, and their interactions</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2F2F2F">* distributed, parallel, and cloud systems</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2F2F2F">* networked, mobile, wireless, peer-to-peer, and sensor systems</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2F2F2F">* runtime systems and compiler/programming-language support</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2F2F2F">* energy/power management</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2F2F2F">* file and storage systems</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2F2F2F">* security, privacy, and trust</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2F2F2F">* virtualization</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2F2F2F">* embedded and real-time systems</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2F2F2F">* fault tolerance, reliability, and availability</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2F2F2F">* deployment, usage, and experience</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2F2F2F">* performance evaluation and workload characterization</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4F4F4F">SYSTOR is a home for high-quality international systems research of a practical nature and welcomes both academic and industrial contributions. We solicit paper submissions in three
separate categories:</span><br>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2F2F2F">Full papers</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2F2F2F"> should report original, previously unpublished high-quality research, and be
at most 10 pages of content, including everything except references, which may use additional pages. The program committee will review all submitted papers. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and included in the conference proceedings, to
be published in the ACM Digital Library.</span><br>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2F2F2F">Short papers</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2F2F2F"> should report original, previously unpublished work for which a full paper
may not be suitable. Short paper submissions may report on smaller ideas; unconventional ideas that are still in a preliminary stage of development; interesting negative results; experimental (in)validation of previous findings; controversial positions that
challenge common wisdom; and fresh approaches for addressing old problems. Short papers may be at most 5 pages, excluding references. They will undergo the same review process as full papers. If accepted, short papers will be allocated a shorter talk slot
during the conference and will also be published in the conference proceedings.</span><br>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2F2F2F">Highlight papers</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2F2F2F"> should contain exciting research results that have been accepted to a
recent top-tier systems conference or journal. A small sub-committee will briefly review these submissions and will select the most suitable ones for SYSTOR. The corresponding presentations will then be "replayed" at SYSTOR for the benefit of the local community.
A highlight paper submission should include the full citation of the published or accepted paper and a link to it. Accepted submissions will not be published in the proceedings.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Proceedings including all (non-highlight) accepted papers will be published by the ACM. Additionally, SYSTOR 2013 will host distinguished keynote speakers, a poster session, and several
social events at the conference. Our goal is to provide an excellent forum for interaction across the systems community: international, academic, and industrial, for both students and more established members.</span><br>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4F4F4F">Paper submission:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4F4F4F"> Submissions must be in PDF and printable on US letter sized paper. Authors
should format their papers with the</span><a href="http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4F4F4F;text-decoration:none">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#624181">SIGPLAN template</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4F4F4F"> using 10pt font (both LaTeX and MS Word versions are available). LaTeX
users: please use the "natbib" package, a link to which is available on the SYSTOR website. Please use the 'preprint' option of the \documentclass (the page numbers it produces are of great help to reviewers). Word users: please use page numbers to assist
the reviewers.</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Submitted papers must NOT have appeared in or be under consideration for appearing in another venue such as a workshop, conference, or journal.
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4F4F4F">Poster submissions:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4F4F4F"> Authors who wish to present their work as posters are required to submit
a one-page PDF with a description of their poster (*not* the poster itself). Submissions could represent early work that is not yet ready for submission to a refereed conference or journal, or describe a technical (non-marketing) innovation</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4F4F4F">
Authors of accepted posters are expected to prepare and present their posters.</span><br>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">IMPORTANT DATES</span></b><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Paper submission (full and short): March 14, 2013 (11:59pm GMT)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Paper submission to highlights category: April 15, 2013 (11:59pm GMT)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Paper notification: April 29, 2013</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Camera-ready submission: May 20, 2013 (11:59pm GMT)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Poster submission: May 20, 2013 (11:59pm GMT)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Poster notification: May 27, 2013</span><br>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS</span></b><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Mary Baker, HP Labs</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Sivan Toledo, Tel Aviv University</span><br>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">GENERAL CHAIR</span></b><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Ronen Kat, IBM Research</span><br>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">PROGRAM COMMITTEE</span></b><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Ahmed Amer, Santa Clara University</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin-Madison</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">David Bacon, IBM Research</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Bill Bolosky, Microsoft</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Dan Boneh, Stanford University</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Tim Brecht, University of Waterloo</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">David Breitgand, IBM Research</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Ira Cohen, HP Labs, Israel</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Dilma Da Silva, Qualcomm Research</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Daniel Deutch, Ben-Gurion University</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Erik Elmroth, Umeå University</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Yoav Etsion, Technion</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Bryan Ford, Yale</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Zhenyu Guo, MSR China</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Christos Karamanolis, VMware</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Darrell Long, UCSC</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Priya Mahadevan, PARC</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Robert Morris, MIT</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Toshio Nakatani, IBM Tokyo</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Brian Noble, University of Michigan</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Mathias Payer, University of California at Berkeley</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Charlie Perkins, Futurewei Technologies</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Simona Rabinovici-Cohen, IBM Research</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Binoy Ravindran, Virginia Tech</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Suzanne Rivoire, Sonoma State University</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Mema Roussopoulos, University of Athens</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Margo Seltzer, Harvard University and Oracle Labs</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Marc Shapiro, INRIA & UPMC-LIP6</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Mark Silberstein, University of Texas at Austin</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Rolf Stadler, KTH Royal Institute of Technology</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Andrew Warfield, UBC</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Avishai Wool, Tel Aviv University</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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