| IPTPS '09  Call for Papers
 
 
8th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems(IPTPS '09)
 
April 21, 2009Boston, MA
 
Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association
 
IPTPS '09 will be held immediately before the 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '09), which will take place April 2224, 2009.
 
Important
Dates
 
	Submissions due: January 12, 2009, 11:59 p.m. EST
Notification of acceptance: March 9, 2009
Electronic files due: March 24, 2009
 
 
Workshop Organizers
 
Program Co-ChairsRodrigo Rodrigues, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
 Keith Ross, Polytechnic Institute of NYU
 
Program CommitteeJustin Cappos, University of Washington
 Landon Cox, Duke University
 Michael Freedman, Princeton University
 Cheng Huang, Microsoft Research
 Adriana Iamnitchi, University of South Florida
 Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington
 Arnaud Legout, INRIA
 Jinyang Li, New York University
 Yong Liu, Polytechnic Institute of NYU
 Boon Thau Loo, University of Pennsylvania
 Jacob Lorch, Microsoft Research
 John Lui, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
 Vishal Misra, Columbia University
 Sue Moon, KAIST
 Pablo Rodriguez, Telefónica Research
 Stefan Saroiu, Microsoft Research
 Ion Stoica, University of California, Berkeley
 Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zürich
 Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell University
 Richard Yang, Yale University
 
Steering CommitteeJohn R. Douceur, Microsoft Research
 Emin Gün Sirer, Cornell University
 Geoffrey M. Voelker, University of California, San Diego
 Ben Y. Zhao, University of California, Santa Barbara
 
Overview
 
The 8th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '09) provides a forum for
researchers to engage in a lively discussion of current and future trends in peer-to-peer
systems. The workshop provides a venue to present and discuss peer-to-peer technologies,
applications, and systems, and to identify key research issues and challenges that lie ahead.
This year, the format of the forum will change to a one-day workshop, co-located with the 6th
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '09) in
Boston.
 
In the context of this year's workshop, peer-to-peer systems are defined to be systems that are
mostly decentralized, self-organizing, and usually including users from multiple administrative
domains. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
 
	Network and system support for peer-to-peer systemsNew applications and protocols for peer-to-peer systemsAvailability, robustness, performance, and scalingSecurity, privacy, anonymity, anti-censorship, and incentivesLessons drawn from experience with deployed peer-to-peer systemsMeasurement, modeling, and workload characterization 
Papers will be selected based on originality, likelihood of spawning insightful discussion, and
technical merit. The program will include presentations of position papers along with plenty
of time for lively discussion among the participants. 
 Submission Guidelines 
Author names and affiliations should appear on the title page (reviewing is not blind). Please
do not submit abbreviated versions of journal or conference papers. In particular, submissions
to IPTPS must not be concurrent with a substantially similar submission to a conference,
including condensed versions of work that has been submitted to a conference and is currently
under review. Paper submissions should follow these guidelines:
 
 
	Papers must be submitted via the Web submission form.5 or fewer pages, including appendices and referencesTwo columns10-point type on 12-point leading ("single-spaced")Pages should be numberedPDF or PostScript format 
All papers will be available online to registered attendees prior to the workshop and will be available
online to everyone starting on April 21, 2009. If your accepted paper should not be published prior to the event, please notify production@usenix.org.
 
Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, and plagiarism constitute dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may, on the recommendation of a program chair, take action against authors who have committed them. In some cases, program committees may share information about submitted papers with other conference chairs and journal editors to ensure the integrity of papers under consideration. If a violation of these principles is found, sanctions may include, but are not limited to, barring the authors from submitting to or participating in USENIX conferences for a set period, contacting the authors' institutions, and publicizing the details of the case.
 
Authors uncertain whether their submission meets USENIX's guidelines should contact the program chairs, iptps09chairs@usenix.org, or the USENIX office, submissionspolicy@usenix.org.
 
Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. Accepted submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication on the USENIX IPTPS '09 Web site; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential.
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