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HotOS '05, The 10th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems

Program | Information for Attendees

Preliminary papers are now available.

The sessions will be held in the Zia B&C Room.

MEAL FUNCTIONS
Reception, Sunday, June 12, 6:30–8:00 p.m., Eldorado Court
Continental breakfast, Monday, June 13, Tuesday, June 14, and Wednesday, June 15, 8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m., Old House
Lunch, Monday, June 13, and Tuesday, June 14, 12:30–2:00 p.m., Old House
Reception/buffet dinner, Monday, June 13, 6:30–:8:00 p.m., Sunset Room

Monday, June 13, 2005
9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Monday
Religious Wars
Session Chair: Robert Grimm, New York University

Are Virtual Machine Monitors Microkernels Done Right??  PDF
Steven Hand, Andrew Warfield, Keir Fraser, Evangelos Kotsovinos, and Dan Magenheimer, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and HP Laboratories

OS Verification—Now!  PDF
Harvey Tuch, Gerwin Klein, and Gernot Heiser, National ICT Australia

Making Events Less Slippery With eel  PDF
Ryan Cunningham and Eddie Kohler, University of California, Los Angeles

10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.   Break  
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Monday
Storage
Session Chair: Butler Lampson, Microsoft Research

Parallax: Managing Storage for a Million Machines  PDF
Andrew Warfield, Russ Ross, Keir Fraser, Christian Limpach, and Steven Hand, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

Stupid File Systems Are Better  PDF
Lex Stein, Harvard University

Aggressive Prefetching: An Idea Whose Time Has Come  HTML | PDF
Athanasios Papathanasiou and Michael Scott, University of Rochester

12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.   Lunch, Old House  
2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Monday
Outside the Comfort Zone
Session Chair: Sharon Perl, Google, Inc.

Why Markets Could (But Don't Currently) Solve Resource Allocation Problems in Systems  PDF
Jeffrey Shneidman, Chaki Ng, and David Parkes, Harvard University; Alvin AuYoung, Alex Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat, University of California, San Diego; Brent Chun, Intel Berkeley Research Lab

Operating Systems Should Support Business Change  PDF
Jeff Mogul, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.   Break  
3:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Monday
It's Not AI, It's Systems
Session Chair: Stephanie Forrest, University of New Mexico

Designing Controllable Computer Systems  HTML | PDF
Christos Karamanolis, Magnus Karlsson, and Xiaoyun Zhu, HP Laboratories

Three Research Challenges at the Intersection of Machine Learning, Statistical Induction, and Systems  PDF
Moises Goldszmidt and Ira Cohen, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories; Armando Fox and Steve Zhang, Stanford University

Expert Panel
Panelists: TBD

Tuesday, June 14, 2005
9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Tuesday
Cleaning Up the Mess We've Made
Session Chair: Christopher Small, Vanu

Making System Configuration More Declarative  HTML | PDF
John DeTreville, Microsoft Research

Reducing the Cost of IT Operations—Is Automation Always the Answer?  PDF
Aaron Brown and Joseph Hellerstein, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Human-Aware Computer System Design  HTML | PDF
Ricardo Bianchini, Richard Martin, Kiran Nagaraju, Thu Nguyen, and Fabio Oliveira, Rutgers University

10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.   Break  
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Tuesday
Approaches to OS Research
Session Chair: Peter Druschel, Rice University

Short Presentations
Thirty Years Is Long Enough: Getting Beyond C  HTML | PDF
Eric Brewer, Jeremy Condit, Bill McCloskey, and Feng Zhou, University of California, Berkeley

Broad New OS Research: Challenges and Opportunities  HTML | PDF
Galen Hunt, James Larus, David Tarditi, and Ted Wobber, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation

patch (1) Considered Harmful  PDF
Marc Fiuczynski, Princeton University; Robert Grimm, New York University; Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria; David Walker, Princeton University

Panel
Do We Work Within Existing Frameworks or Start from Scratch?
Panelists: Bill McCloskey, Galen Hunt, Marc Fiuczynski, Robert Grimm, Russ Cox, and Eric Brewer

12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.   Lunch, Old House  
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Tuesday
Distribution
Session Chair: Mary Baker, Hewlett-Packard Labs

WiDS: An Integrated Toolkit for Distributed System Development  PDF
Shiding Lin, Aimin Pan, and Zheng Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia; Rui Guo, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Zhenyu Guo, Tsinghua University

Causeway: Operating System Support for Controlling and Analyzing the Execution of Distributed Programs  HTML | PDF
Anupam Chanda, Khaled Elmeleegy, and Alan Cox, Rice University; Willy Zwaenepoel, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL

Treating Bugs as Allergies: A Safe Method for Surviving Software Failures  HTML | PDF
Feng Qin, Joseph Tucek, and Yuanyuan Zhou, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.   Break  
4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Tuesday
Security
Session Chair: Armando Fox, Stanford University

When Virtual Is Harder than Real: Security Challenges in Virtual Machine Based Computing Environments  HTML | PDF
Tal Garfinkel and Mendel Rosenblum, Stanford University

Make Least Privilege a Right (Not a Privilege)  PDF
Maxwell Krohn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Petros Efstathopoulos, University of California, Los Angeles; Cliff Frey and Frans Kaashoek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David Mazieres, University of California, Los Angeles; Michelle Osborne, New York University; Steve VanDeBogart, University of California, Los Angeles; David Ziegler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Access Control in a World of Software Diversity  PDF
Martin Abadi, University of California, Santa Cruz; Andrew Birrell and Ted Wobber, Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley

Wednesday, June 15, 2005
9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Wednesday
Sensor Nets
Session Chair: Doug Terry, Microsoft Research

PRESTO: A Predictive Storage Architecture for Sensor Networks  HTML | PDF
Peter Desnoyers, Deepak Ganesan, Huan Li, Ming Li, and Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Towards a Sensor Network Architecture: Lowering the Waistline  PDF
David Culler, Prabal Dutta, Cheng Tien Ee, Rodrigo Fonseca, Jonathan Hui, Philip Levis, and Joseph Polastre, University of California, Berkeley; Scott Shenker, ICSI; Ion Stoica and Gilman Tolle, University of California, Berkeley; Jerry Zhao, ICSI

10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon Wednesday
Breakout Session
Session Chairs: Margo Seltzer, Harvard University

10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
Breakout

11:00 a.m.–12:00 noon
Presentation of the HotOS papers

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