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Begin forwarded message: > From: Hillel Kolodner <[log in to unmask]> > Date: 23 November 2008 15:42:52 GMT > To: Hillel Kolodner <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: ISMM 2009 Call For Papers > > > International Symposium on Memory Management 2009 > http://sysrun.haifa.il.ibm.com/hrl/ISMM2009 > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > ISMM is a forum for research in management of dynamically allocated > memory. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: explicit > storage allocation and deallocation; garbage collection algorithms and > implementations; compiler analyses to aid memory management; > interactions with languages, operating systems, and hardware, > especially the memory system; memory management related tools; and > empirical studies of allocation and referencing behavior in programs > that make significant use of dynamic memory. ISMM solicits full-length > papers on all areas of memory management. Survey papers that present > an aspect of memory management with a new coherence are also welcome. > > ORGANIZERS > > General Chair: Hillel Kolodner Program Chair: Guy L. Steele Jr. > > Steering Committee: Program Committee: > David F. Bacon, IBM Research Angela Demke Brown, U. Toronto > Steve Blackburn, ANU Dino Distefano, Queen Mary, U. > London > Amer Diwan, U. Colorado Dan Grossman, U. Washington > Richard Jones, U. Kent Ranjit Jhala, UC San Diego > Hillel Kolodner, IBM Haifa Research Pramod Joisha, HP Labs > Greg Morrisett, Harvard Matthias Meyer, U. Stuttgart > Eliot Moss, U. Massachusetts Martin Rinard, MIT > Erez Petrank, Technion Xipeng Shen, William and Mary > College > Mooly Sagiv, Tel-Aviv U. Fridtjof Siebert, Aicas GmbH > Guy L. Steele Jr., Sun Microsystems Bjarne Steensgaard, Microsoft > Research > Kenjiro Taura, U. Tokyo > Martin Vechev, IBM Research > > KEY DATES > > Full papers: January 29, 2009 (11:08pm PST) > Author response period: March 5-6, 2009 > Notification: March 12, 2009 > Camera-ready copy: April 6, 2009 > > Submissions will be read by the program committee and designated > reviewers, and judged on scientific merit, innovation, readability, > and relevance. Papers previously published or already being reviewed > by another conference are not eligible; if a closely related paper has > been submitted to a journal, the authors must notify the program chair > (see the SIGPLAN republication policy). Note: this year the > submission deadline for ISMM is two days after the author notification > deadline for PLDI, to make it possible for authors of relevant papers > not accepted for PLDI to submit them to ISMM. > > Submissions should be no more than 10 pages (including bibliography, > excluding well marked appendices) in standard ACM SIGPLAN conference > format: two columns, nine-point font (or larger) on a ten-point > baseline (or larger), with columns 20pc (3.33in) wide and 54pc (9in) > tall, and a column gutter of 2pc (0.33in). Detailed formatting > guidelines are available at the URL below, along with formatting > templates or style files for LaTeX. Papers that violate these > guidelines will be rejected by the program chair. Program committee > members are not required to read appendices, and so a paper should be > intelligible without them. All accepted papers will appear in the > published proceedings. > > http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm > > Double-blind reviewing > > The ISMM paper reviewing process uses double-blind reviewing and > provides an opportunity for rebuttal. In double-blind reviewing, the > authors are anonymous to the reviewers, just as reviewers are > anonymous to the authors. Authors are required to make reasonable > efforts not to disclose their identities to reviewers. For example, > you should not give your names nor mention your institution, research > group or project name, etc. Where necessary for flow, you could say > "the XYZ project" and add in a footnote that the name is withheld. > Discuss your own prior work in the third person, as you would other > related work. Avoid making paper drafts too public, to reduce the > possibility of inadvertently revealing your identities to reviewers. > Authors will be able to provide reviewers with anonymous auxiliary > material such as proofs and source code via the PC Chair (see below). > Reviewers, for their part, will be honor-bound not to try to discover > authors' identities, which will be known only by the program chair > until a suitable point in the program committee's deliberations. We > are using this process because research indicates that author > anonymity reduces bias in reviewing. > > Auxiliary Material > > When submitting papers to ISMM 09, authors will be able to provide the > PC Chair with a URL for upload of auxiliary material. The URL itself > will not be seen by reviewers. The authors may reference such > material in their paper, noting that the material has been made > available to the PC Chair. This facility may be used by authors to > provide reviewers with useful information beyond the scope of the > submitted paper, such as technical reports, proofs, and source code, > without disclosing the authors' identity. Authors are obliged to make > reasonable efforts to make all auxiliary material suitably anonymous. > Authors are reminded that reviewers are under no obligation to read > any auxiliary material. > > Review committee > > ISMM 09 follows the practice introduced for ISSM 2008 of using a > separate Review Committee (RC) as part of the reviewing process. The > RC complements the Program Committee (PC) by providing expert reviews. > The same reviewing standards apply to the RC as for the PC. However,. > RC members review only around four papers each, and do not participate > in the PC meeting. The purpose of the RC is to increase the breadth > and depth of the reviewer pool, thus increasing the likelihood of > conflict-free expert reviews. This approach should be more practical > with double-blind reviewing than ad hoc expert review assignments (as > used by a number of conferences). The formal selection process, > transparency of its constituency, and the fact that each reviewer will > review multiple papers should increase the quality and accountability > of reviews as compared to traditional ad hoc expert review > assignments. > > Rebuttal > > The rebuttal process will occur in early March 2009, and will give the > authors opportunity to respond succinctly to factual errors in > reviews, before the program committee meets to make its decisions. > The committee may, but need not, respond to rebuttals or revise > reviews at or after the committee meeting. > > Submissions > > Submitted papers must be in English and formatted to print on US > Letter (8.5 x 11 inches) paper. Submissions must contain an abstract > and postal and electronic mailing addresses for at least one contact > author. All papers must be submitted on-line, preferably in Portable > Document Format (PDF), although the submission system will also accept > PostScript. > > Proceedings > > The proceedings will be published by the ACM. Authors should read the > ACM Author Guidelines and related information. Authors of accepted > papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the > conference. For additional information please feel free to contact > the Program Chair, Guy Steele, ([log in to unmask]). > > Richard Jones | Reader in Computer Systems | University of Kent Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, UK T +44 1227 827943 | F +44 1227 762811 | W http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/~rej/