From abitebou@cosmos.inria.fr Mon Feb 14 10:36:53 1994 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by lirmm.lirmm.fr (8.6.4/8.6.4) with SMTP id KAA28803; Mon, 14 Feb 1994 10:36:52 +0100 Received: from cosmos.inria.fr by concorde.inria.fr; Mon, 14 Feb 1994 10:33:09 +0100 Received: by cosmos.inria.fr, Mon, 14 Feb 94 10:33:03 +0100 Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 10:33:03 +0100 From: "Serge Abiteboul (VERSO)" Message-Id: <9402140933.AA23052@cosmos.inria.fr> To: bd3@cosmos.inria.fr Subject: DISTRIBUTION AND CONCURRENCY IN PERSISTENT SYSTEMS a MAUI Reply-To: Serge.Abiteboul@inria.fr (Serge Abiteboul) Status: RO Sophie Cluet communique: CALL FOR PAPERS AND REFEREES HICSS- 28 MAUI, HAWAII - JANUARY 3-6, 1995 DISTRIBUTION AND CONCURRENCY IN PERSISTENT SYSTEMS Persistent object systems are systems which support the creation and manipulation of objects in a uniform manner, regardless of how long they persist. This is in direct contrast with conventional systems where temporary objects are created and manipulated using one mechanism (typically programming language data structures) and permanent objects are maintained using a different mechanism (usually a filestore or database). The unification of temporary and permanent objects yields systems which are both smaller and potentially more efficient than conventional systems, whilst providing a platform for the development of large, data intensive applications. The current state of research in this area is that a number of persistent systems have been constructed and are operational. However, almost all of these operate in a non-distributed environment. Those that do support distribution only allow restricted distribution models. In addition, many of these systems have no support for concurrency control within the persistent store. The Software Technologies Track of HICSS-28 has the as its theme: "Parallel and Distributed Computing: Theory, Systems, and Applications" and will concentrate on distribution and concurrency in persistent systems. The presentations in this minitrack will provide a forum to discuss advances in theory and practice in these important areas. Papers are invited that may be practical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Those papers selected for presentation will appear in the Conference Proceedings, which are published by the Computer Society of the IEEE and possibly also in a special issue of a professional society journal. HICSS-28 is sponsored by the University of Hawaii in cooperation with the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. Submissions are solicited on the following topics: * Models of distribution in persistent systems * Resilience in distributed persistent systems * Replication in persistent systems * Protection in distributed persistent systems * Concurrency control for persistent systems * Garbage collection in distributed persistent systems * Experiences with distributed persistent applications INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING PAPERS Manuscripts should be 22-25 typewritten, double-spaced pages in length. Please do not send submissions that are significantly shorter or longer than this. Papers must not have been previously presented or published, nor currently submitted for journal publication. Each manuscript will be subjected to a rigorous refereeing process. Manuscripts should have a title page that includes the title of the paper, full name(s) of author(s), affiliation(s), complete postal and electronic mail address(es), telephone number(s), and a 300-word abstract of the paper. Electronic submission in the form of plain text (for the initial 300 word abstract) and postscript (for the full paper) is encouraged. DEADLINES * A 300-word abstract by March 15, 1994 * Feedback to author concerning abstract by April 1, 1994 * Eight copies of the manuscript by June 1, 1994 * Notification of accepted papers by August 31, 1994 * Camera-ready copies of accepted manuscripts by October 1, 1994 SEND SUBMISSIONS AND QUESTIONS TO EITHER OF John Rosenberg Alan Dearle Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Science University of Sydney University of Adelaide N.S.W. 2006 S.A. 5005 Australia Australia Phone: +61 2 692 4840 Phone: +61 8 303 5405 Fax: +61 2 692 3838 Fax: +61 8 303 4366 Email: johnr@cs.su.oz.au Email: al@cs.adelaide.edu.au