[Storage-research-list] IWSSPS 2008 CFP deadline extended to Aug 15

[Carlos Maltzahn]

CALL FOR PAPERS

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The Third International Workshop on Software Support
for Portable Storage (IWSSPS 2008)

http://www.iwssps.org

October 23, 2008.
Atlanta, Georgia, USA. (Co-located with EMSOFT 2008)
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New emerging storage media such as Flash memory require extensive  
software
support for higher performance and reliability, lower power consumption,
and value-added functionalities. The main goal of the International
Workshop on Software Support for Portable Storage (IWSSPS) is to bring
together people from industry and academia who are interested in all
aspects of software support for portable storage.

The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

- File systems for portable storage
- Interaction between file systems and portable storage
- Flash memory storage designs
- Solid state disks (SSDs)
- Power management for HDDs including microdrives
- DRM (Digital Right Management) for portable storage
- Security support for portable storage
- Distributed mobile storage
- Software support for new non-volatile memories (FRAM, MRAM, etc.)
- Software reliability for portable storage
- Software fault tolerance techniques for portable storage
- Novel applications of portable storage

Paper Submission
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[Technical Session]

All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Papers in PDF  
format
should be submitted electronically through the conference management  
system
that can be accessed at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwssps2008 no later than  
July 31,
2008 (extended to August 15, 2008). The papers should be prepared  
using the
2-column ACM conference format, and no longer than 6 pages.

All the papers submitted to the technical session will be reviewed by  
the
program committee and acceptance will be based on standard criterion of
research merits. Submission of the paper implies that should the paper  
be
accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the  
paper
at the workshop. Submission inquiries should be sent to the program  
chair
(jinsoo at cs.kaist.ac.kr).

[Work-In-Progress (WIP) Session]

This year IWSSPS 2008 will feature a special Work-In-Progress (WIP)  
session
in order to present and discuss preliminary research outcomes, novel
research questions, approaches, and directions. The specific aim of this
WIP session is to provide a forum for early feedback on new or ongoing
research. Contributors to the WIP session should send a two-page  
proposal
directly to wip-submit at iwssps.org by August 15, 2008. Acceptances for  
the
WIP session will be announced by September 5, 2008. Authors of the  
accepted
proposals will be asked to prepare powerpoint slides no longer than 15
pages and to give a presentation in the WIP session. We would welcome
contributions to the WIP session not only from academia, but also from
industry.

Important Dates
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Paper submission: July 31, 2008 (extended to August 15, 2008)
WIP proposal submission: August 15, 2008
Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2008
Camera-ready due: September 26, 2008
Workshop date: October 23, 2008

Workshop Organization
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General Chair
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Sang Lyul Min, Seoul National University, Korea.

Program Chair
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Jin-Soo Kim, KAIST, Korea.

Program Committee
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Young Hyun Bae, MTRON Storage Technology Co., Korea
Frank Bellosa, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Li-Pin Chang, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
Jongmoo Choi, Dankook University, Korea
Daniel Ellard, NetApp, USA
Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Chang-Gun Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
Sang-Won Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Yann-Hang Lee, Arizona State University, USA
Carlos Maltzahn, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Ethan Miller, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Sang Lyul Min, Seoul National University, Korea
Daniel Mosse, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Sam H. Noh, Hongik University, Korea
Dongjun Shin, Samsung Electronics Co., Korea
Youjip Won, Hanyang University, Korea