Technical Committee on Operating Systems, Applications and…

Technical Committee on Operating Systems,
Applications and Environments (TCOS)
http://www.tcos.org                tcos-[announce, discuss]@tcos.org

IEEE-CS TCOS is a large membership organiza-            gies, and Workshop on Mobile Computing
tion (over 3,500 members), an affinity group of         Systems and Applications (WMCSA).
developers and users interested in the Operating
System (OS) and applications and environments.          Membership
TCOS is to IEEE-CS what SIGOPS is to ACM                TCOS membership is free. You can register on the
(though membership in TCOS is free).                    Web, either through IEEE CS Web site (off of
                                                        www.computer.org/members/, follow the link
TCOS is involved with theoretical and practical         "Other Services"; there is also a link off of the
aspects of OS design and implementation, includ-        TCOS Web page).
ing system organization, resource allocation poli-
cies, measurement, performance evaluation, and          Please take a look at our member survey and tell us
system reliability. It is also involved with all OS     what else you would like TCOS to offer to its
aspects affecting system interface specifications,      membership and community. The form is available
the completeness of services, and portability of        at:
applications and environments.                               http://www.tcos.org/forms/feedback.html
                                                        We are actively looking for new ideas, but even
There are two main types of activities of the TCOS      more for new volunteers to make the ideas happen.
that are of benefit to our members and to commu-
nity in general. The first one is organization of OS-   TCOS Officers
related events (see the list below). The second role
                                                        Dejan S. Milojicic, HP Labs (Chair)
is in gathering and distributing OS-related informa-    Mike Jones, Microsoft Research. (Vice Chair)
tion, mainly on the Web site. We publish a News-        Prof. Brett D. Fleisch, UC, Riverside (Treasurer)
letter a few times a year.                              Prof. Steve Chapin, Syracuse Uni. (Editor, Web Master)

TCOS collaborates with IEEE-CS publications,            Executive Board
such as IEEE Concurrency. Examples include mak-         Fred Douglis, AT&T Labs - Research (past chair)
ing some of the magazine materials available on         Prof. Amr El Kadi, Am. U. in Cairo (Mid-East Repres.)
the TCOS Web site and pursuing joint publications.      Prof. Peter Dickman, U. of Glasgow (Europ. Repres)
                                                        Felipe Cabrera, Microsoft Corporation
TCOS seeks to actively cooperate with other orga-       Prof. Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal, University of Florida
nizations such as ACM SIGOPS and USENIX and             Prof. David Kotz, Dartmouth College (ACM Liaison)
has been cosponsoring several events with them          Prof. Darrell D. E. Long, UC Santa Cruz (past chair)
                                                        Prof. Ravi Mukkamala, Old Dominion University
TCOS (co)sponsored events                               Stefan Savage, University of Washington
                                                        Marc Shapiro, Microsoft Research Cambridge &INRIA
The Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HOTOS)
Workshop is TCOS' main event. It is a bi-annual         Editorial Staff
event that gathers researchers working on the latest
                                                        Prof. Steve Chapin, Syracuse University (Editor)
OS technologies. TCOS is considering sponsorship
                                                        Tom Doeppner, Brown University
of two more events.                                     M. Rasit Eskicioglu, University of Alberta
                                                        Prof. Shikharesh Majumdar, Carleton University
TCOS cosponsors the USENIX OSDI Sympo-
sium, Virtual Enterprises and Mobile Technolo-
                      Preliminary Call for Participation: HotOS-VIII
                                  End of May 2001, Southern Germany
The Eighth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VIII) will bring together participants
from academia and industry to exchange ideas and insights relevant to operating systems. We seek partic-
ipation, both by members of the OS community, as well as by application developers and users who have
useful feedback for OS designers and implementors.
In the past HotOS has been the place to present and discuss new ideas and techniques. To continue in this
tradition, we solicit OS-related papers on hot or emerging areas such as (for instance) disconnected and
nomadic computing, tiny and ubiquitous computers, middleware services, safe extensibility, speculative
caching or execution techniques, distributed storage management, high performance servers and network-
ing, special-purpose and embedded systems, etc. Topics of interest also include the more classic OS areas
such as distributed computing, virtual memory, networking, file systems, process management, perfor-
mance evaluation, real-time systems and security.
To ensure a productive workshop environment, attendance is limited to about 60 participants who are
active in the field. Each potential participant should submit a position paper of 5 pages or less that exposes
a new problem, advocates a specific solution, or reports on actual experience. Participants will be invited
based on the originality, technical merit and topical relevance of their submissions, as well as the likeli-
hood that the ideas expressed in their submissions will lead to insightful technical discussions at the work-
shop. Please do not submit abbreviated versions of journal or conference papers.
Online copies of the position papers will be made available via the Web prior to the workshop. Printed
proceedings, including a summary of the interactions at the workshop, will be published and mailed to par-
ticipants after the workshop.
The IEEE Computer Society's TCOS is sponsoring a $500 award for the best student contributor to the
workshop. To be considered for this award, please indicate that you are a student when submitting your
position paper. For multi-author papers, you should be the primary author and the presenter at the work-
shop.
A small number of students will be granted free registration and limited travel support. In return, these stu-
dents will serve as scribes: their responsibilities will include taking detailed notes of the interactions at the
workshop, and helping the program chair prepare a digest of the proceedings. Students who wish to be con-
sidered for this opportunity must send in a brief description of their current research, and an explanation of
how participation in the workshop is likely to help them. These should be received by the program chair by
the submission date below.
Send 10 copies of position papers to the program chair at the address below.
                 Marc Shapiro
                 Microsoft Research Ltd.
                 1 Guildhall St.
                 Cambridge CB2 3NH
                 United Kingdom
                 e-mail: Marc.Shapiro@inria.fr
                 http://www-sor.inria.fr/~shapiro/
IMPORTANT DATES (to be confirmed)
Submissions due: 15 December 2000
General Chair: Jochen Liedtke, Universit ät Karlsruhe
Program Chair: Marc Shapiro, Microsoft Research Cambridge and INRIA