USENIX - LISA 2001 - Call for Papers

Call for Papers

Conference Topics

Tutorials, Invited Talks, Workshops, WIPs, and BOFs

CONFERENCE TOPICS

The Program Committee invites you to join the contributors to the LISA XV conference. Submissions of refereed papers or other presentations which address any and all aspects of system administration are acceptable. Here is a partial list of timely paper topics for potential authors:

Technologies

Evaluations of innovative system administration tools and techniques (rehashes of old tools are not acceptable unless they clearly bring something new to the field).
Distributed or automated system administration
High availability and disaster recovery
Designing, selecting, scaling, integrating and managing "enterprise" computing services.
Security (all aspects)
Applications of tools, techniques, and methods from other disciplines
Integration of new networking technologies, protocols, and applications
Integration of emerging technologies
Performance analysis and monitoring

Education

University teaching programmes
Effective training techniques for system administration

Theory and Practice of System Administration

Methodology, paradigms, and models for system administration
Analysis of "best practices" in systems administration
Analysis and comparison of alternative systems for systems administration tasks
Case studies
Application of scientific methods to systems administration
Metrics for systems administration
Performance analysis and monitoring
Budgeting, cost analyses, and project planning/management techniques for systems administration.

User-System Interaction

System administration management issues
User health and safety
User psychology
Support strategies
The system administrator's role in the organization

Computer Immunology in System Administration

Host regulation
Convergent automation in distributed systems
Security and stability