2011 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE'11) Call for Papers http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~erez/vee11/VEE_2011/Home_Page.html March 9th-11th, 2011 Newport Beach Marriott Hotel 900 Newport Center Drive Newport Beach, CA Virtualization, broadly speaking, is a recognition of the adage that any problem in computer science can be solved through the introduction of an additional layer of indirection. The technique is applied to modern systems at many interfaces, from hardware (Xen, VMware), to OS system calls (VServers, Jails), to high-level language run times (Java, Python). While these approaches differ dramatically in implementation, they provide similar benefits and often must tackle related challenges. The 2011 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments brings together researchers across the many applications of virtualization in today's systems. We invite original papers on topics relating to virtualization -- especially those that will have broad appeal across these approaches. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: - Design and implementation of the virtualization layer, - The use of virtualization to provide novel functionality, such as high availability, enhanced security and dependability, - Challenges in applying virtualization in new environments, such as unusual architectures, real-time constraints, and very large scales, - Novel virtualization techniques to support cloud computing, - Development and debugging for virtual environments, such as record/replay debugging and omniscience, - I/O concerns specific to virtualization, - Experience reports from deployments of virtualized environments, - Impact of virtualization on performance models, In short, the conference is broadly interested in lessons from virtualization that will apply to a wide range of researchers as well as the novel use of virtualization techniques to solve practical problems. Important Dates: Abstract Submission : October 25, 2010 Full Paper Submission : November 1, 2010 Notification : December 20, 2010 Camera Ready : January 17, 2011 Submission Guidelines: Papers should attack an interesting problem and should clearly articulate their contribution relative to previous work. All submissions should be in the ACM SIGPLAN (9pt) format (http://acm.org/sigplan/authorInformation.htm) and should be no more than twelve pages in total length. Pages should be numbered, and submissions must be legible when printed in black and white. Papers that do not conform to these guidelines may be automatically rejected without review. Submitted papers must describe work unpublished in venues with a formal proceedings, and not currently submitted for publication elsewhere. See the SIGPLAN republication policy for more details (http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/republicationpolicy.htm). Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign ACM copyright release forms. Proceedings will be published by ACM Press. Detailed submission guidelines and instructions are available on the conference website (http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~erez/vee11). Organizers: General Chair: Erez Petrank (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology) Program Chairs: Doug Lea (State University of New York at Oswego) Program Committee: Muli Ben-Yehuda (IBM Research, Haifa) Michael Bond (Ohio State University) Trishul Chilimbi (Microsoft Research) Angela Demke Brown (University of Toronto) Grzegorz Czajkowski (Google) Dave Dice (Sun Labs at Oracle) Alex Garthwaite (VMWare) Dan Grossman (University of Washington) Steve Hand (University of Cambridge) Chandra Krintz (University of California Santa Barbara) Ian Rogers (Azul) Dilma da Silva (IBM Research) Joe Sventek (University of Glasgow) Jan Vitek (Purdue University)