ACM Operating Systems Review

A Publication of the ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems

Editor: Jeanna Matthews (Clarkson University)

Information

Operating Systems Review (OSR) is a publication of the ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS), whose scope of interest includes: computer operating systems and architecture for multiprogramming, multiprocessing, and time sharing; resource management; evaluation and simulation; reliability, integrity, and security of data; communications among computing processors; and computer system modeling and analysis.

Archives of OSR are available from the ACM Digital Library.

Contributions to OSR

With the January 2006 issue, the publication policy of the OSR is changing. In particular, each issue will be organized around a theme and submissions will be solicited for that theme. Guest editors will often be chosen to solicit and review submissions for a special topics issue. We are interested in having a broad range of special topics reflecting both academic and industrial interests. If you would like to suggest a topic or volunteer to serve as a guest editor, please contact the OSR editor, Jeanna Matthews (jnm@acm.org).

In addition to the special topics content, individual submissions will also be considered. Individual submissions may be collected together into a single issue or included in a seperately designated section of a special topics issue. We encourage submitters to contact the OSR editor to propose a particular individual submission and to discuss possible publication dates. We would especially like to encourage individual submissions in the following categories:

Polemics: Seek out points of difference and encourage both sides to write their side of the story. Such articles could revisit debates from recent conferences. This could also include counter arguements or responses to recently published works.
Works in Progress: Descriptions of on-going work in operating systems especially work for which feedback is desired from the community.
Results of Repeated Research: Describe experience with and results from independent trials of previously published work. (See "The Case for Repeated Research In Operating Systems" in OSR, Volume 38, Number 2, April 2004.)
Memorials or Historical Accounts: ACM as a whole is working to preserve its history and has asked each of the SIGS to collect descriptions of the early days of its community. OSR would be an excellent place to publish such accounts.
Novel Approaches to Operating Systems Education: Describe particularly effective assignments and teaching techniques in operating systems.
Tutorials: Provide a clear explanation or survey of a topic of interest to the OS community.

Anyone interested in submitting an individual article should submit a proposal to the OSR editor. This proposal should briefly describe the proposed submission (1-2 paragraphs), estimate the page count of the final submission and identify it as an example of one the categories listed above if applicable. If the proposed article is already complete, please indicate this in the proposal.

Upcoming Special Topics

Issue Topic Guest Editor Submission Deadline/
Call For Participation
January 2008 Survey of Work From IBM Research Dilma Da Silva, Robert Wisniewski (IBM TJ Watson Research Center)
March 2008 ASPLOS Proceedings
April 2008 Computer Forensics Ewa Huebner (University of Western Sydney) and Frans Henskens (University of Newcastle) December 1 2007
May 2008 Eurosys Proceedings
July 2008 Research and Developments in the Linux Kernel Muli Ben-Yehuda, Eric Van Hensbergen (IBM), Marc Fiuczynski (Princeton) March 29 2008
October 2008 Best papers from Storage and I/O Virtualization, Performance, Energy, Evaluation and Dependability (SPEED08)
Best papers from the Brazilian Workshop in Operating Systems 		Peter Varman (Rice University) and Jun Wang (University of Central Florida)
Dilma Da Silva (IBM) and Antonio Frohlich (Federal Univ. of Santa Catarina)
January 2009 Survey of Work From Hewlett-Packard Labs Jay Wylie, Jeff Mogul (HP Labs)

Past Special Topics

Issue Topic Guest Editor Original Call For Participation
January 2006 PlanetLab Marc Fiuczynski (Princeton) November 1/November 15 2005
April 2006 Operating and Runtime Systems for High-end Computing Systems Barney Maccabe (University of New Mexico)
Patrick Bridges (University of New Mexico)
Orran Krieger (IBM) 		February 1/February 15 2005
July 2006 Self-Organizing Systems Emin Gün Sirer (Cornell) May 1/May 15 2006
October 2006 Eurosys 2006 Proceedings
December 2006 ASPLOS 2006 Proceedings
January 2007 File and Storage Systems Erik Riedel (Seagate) November 1/November 15 2006
April 2007 Survey of Work From Microsoft Research Mike Schroeder (Microsoft Research)
June 2007 Eurosys 2007 Proceedings
July 2007 Secure Small-Kernel Systems Michael Hohmuth (Technische Universität Dresden) April 8 2007
October 2007 Gossip-Based Networking Anne-Marie Kermarrec(INRIA/IRISA) and Maarten Van Steen (Vrije Universiteit)
December 2007 SOSP 2007 Proceedings

Submission Directions

Final submissions to OSR should be sent via email to the OSR editor, Jeanna Matthews (jnm@acm.org), or to a special topics guest editor as directed. Final submissions to OSR should include both an Acrobat PDF file and the original source following the ACM Proceedings format. If you do not use an official ACM Proceedings template, please do adhere to the following guidelines:

Use a two-column, U.S. letter-size (8.5" x 11") document format.
No headers, footers, or page numbers.
Use a 0.75-inch margin everywhere.
For the basic text content, use a 9-point font size.
All fonts must be Type 1 or 3 PostScript fonts from the Latin 1 Fontset.
Do not use TrueType, bitmapped, or Ryumin fonts.
No superfluous white-space.
Use appropriately sized images (clearly legible, and no larger than necessary).

Traditionally, the SIGOPS conference proceedings will be mailed as the December issue in odd-numbered calendar years, and the ASPLOS conference proceedings will be mailed in even-numbered calendar years.