CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS

The ASPLOS Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops and tutorials. The proposals should fall within the scope of ASPLOS but should complement the main conference by covering emerging trends, specialized areas, or practical experience. The focus of ASPLOS is cross-fertilizing research in areas of hardware, architecture, compilers, operating systems, networking, and applications.

ASPLOS 2006 workshops will be held on October 21-22, 2006. The main conference will be held immediately after, October 23-25, 2006.

Proposals are to be submitted in ASCII or pdf by e-mail to the ASPLOS Workshop and Tutorial Chair, Ras Bodik, bodik@cs.berkeley.edu. Proposals will be evaluated by the ASPLOS organizing committee on the basis of their assessed benefit for ASPLOS attendees. Accepted workshops and tutorials will be advertised on the ASPLOS web site.

SUBMISSION OF WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

A workshop proposal should not exceed three pages and should include:

• Workshop name and acronym
• names and contact information of the organizers
• the duration of the workshop: half-day, one-day or two-day event
• 120-word description of the workshop topic for later use in publicity material
• a brief explanation of the workshop topic and its relevance to ASPLOS
• a schedule for paper submission, notification of acceptance and final versions (the notification no later than the ASPLOS early registration deadline)
• expected number of participants
• event format: poster session, breakout groups, etc
• list of potential invited speakers, if any
• publication policy
• other relevant information: demo sessions, special space requirements, etc.

Workshop organizers will be responsible for

• producing the event's call for papers and call for participations
• publicizing the event through mailing lists, etc., to supplement the ASPLOS publicity efforts
• hosting and maintaining a web site for the event
• reviewing and making acceptance decisions on submitted papers
• producing the event proceedings or publishing the proceedings with a sponsor, e.g. SIGSPLAN or SIGARCH.
• scheduling workshop activities in consultation with the local organizers

SUBMISSION OF TUTORIALS PROPOSALS

A tutorial proposal should not exceed three pages and should include:

• Tutorial name
• names and contact information of the organizers
• the duration of the tutorial: half-day, full-day
• 120-word description of the workshop topic for later use in publicity material
• a brief explanation of the topic and its relevance to ASPLOS
• individual topics you will cover, philosophy (if any), the target audience, and prerequisite knowledge
• 1 paragraph biography of presenters suitable for tutorial publicity
• expected number of participants
• other relevant information: special space requirements, etc.

IMPORTANT DATES

Proposals Deadline: March 22, 2006
Notification of acceptance: April 5, 2006

FURTHER INFORMATION AND INQUIRIES

• Ras Bodik
  UC Berkeley
  ASPLOS 2006 Workshops and Tutorials Chair
  
• ASPLOS 2006 Web Site

• Prospective organizers may wish to consult web pages of past ASPLOS workshops:
  • OASIS-2004 - 1st Workshop on Operating System and Architectural Support for the On-Demand IT Infrastructure
  • WASSA - Workshop on Architectural Support for Security and Anti-virus
  • BEACON-1 - 1st Workshop on Building Block Engine Architectures for Computers and Networks
  • VPW2 - 2nd Value-Prediction and Value-Based Optimization Workshop
  • EASY 2002 - Second Workshop on Evaluating and Architecting System dependability
  • MAMSET - Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Middleware Support for Electronic Textiles
  • The 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Memory Systems
  • Workshop on Power-Aware Computer Systems (PACS)
• ... and tutorials:
  • Designing and Evaluating Dependable Systems (Tutorial) 
  • On The Run -- Building Dynamic Program Modifiers for Optimization, Introspection, and Security (Tutorial)
  • Architectures, Languages, and Compilers for the Streaming Domain
  • Designing Instrumentation Tools With PIN
  • Using The Liberty Simulation Environment with emphasis on hardware
    validated OS-level simulation
  • Program locality models and their use in memory optimization
    
  • Computing In The Presence of Soft Errors