The program committees of the following conferences are seeking submissions. CiteSeer ranks the USENIX Conference Proceedings among the the top ten highest-impact publication venues for computer science. By submitting a paper to a USENIX conference, you have the opportunity to present your work directly to your peers and to share it with a wide audience of readers of the Proceedings.

TaPP '09: 1st Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance
Co-located with FAST '09
February 23, 2009, San Francisco, CA

Provenance, or meta-information about computations, computer systems, database queries, scientific workflows, and so on, is emerging as a central issue in a number of disciplines. The TaPP workshop continues an informal series of workshops on Principles of Provenance organized in 2007–2008, which helped raise the profile of this area within diverse research communities, such as databases, security, and programming languages. We hope both to attract serious cross-disciplinary, foundational, and highly speculative research and to facilitate needed interaction with the broader systems community and with industry. Check out the Call for Papers for more information.

Submissions due: December 5, 2008

USENIX '09: 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
June 14–19, 2009, San Diego, CA

Authors are invited to submit original and innovative papers to the Refereed Papers Track of the 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. We seek high-quality submissions that further the knowledge and understanding of modern computing systems, with an emphasis on implementations and experimental results. We encourage papers that break new ground or present insightful results based on practical experience. Find out more in the Call for Papers.

Paper submissions due: January 9, 2009

IPTPS '09: 8th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems
Co-located with NSDI '09
April 21, 2009, Boston, MA

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. See the Call for Papers for information about how to participate.

Submissions due: January 9, 2009

HotOS XII: 12th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems
Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with the IEEE Technical Committee on Operating Systems (TCOS)
May 18–20, 2009, Monte Verità, Switzerland

HotOS XII will bring together innovative practitioners and researchers in computing systems, broadly construed. Continuing the HotOS tradition, participants will present and discuss new ideas about computer systems research and how technological advances and new applications are shaping our computational infrastructure. Find out how to participate in the Call for Papers.

Paper submissions due: January 13, 2009

LEET '09: 2nd USENIX Workshop on Large-scale Exploits and Emergent Threats
Co-located with NSDI '09
April 21, 2009, Boston, MA

LEET '09 will focus on the underlying mechanisms used to compromise and control hosts, the large-scale "applications" being perpetrated upon this framework, and the social and economic networks driving these threats. Intriguing preliminary results and thought-provoking ideas will be strongly favored and papers will be selected for their potential to stimulate discussion in the workshop. The Call for Papers is now available.

Paper submissions due: January 16, 2009

USENIX Security '09: 18th USENIX Security Symposium
August 12–14, 2009, Montreal, Canada

The USENIX Security Symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in the security of computer systems and networks. All researchers are encouraged to submit papers covering novel and scientifically significant practical works in security or applied cryptography. Check out the Call for Papers to find out more.

Paper submissions due: February 4, 2009

LISA '09: 23rd Large Installation System Administration Conference
November 1–6, 2008, Baltimore, MD

Since 1987, the annual LISA conference has become the premier meeting place for professional system and network administrators. System administrators of all ranks, from novice to veteran, and of all specialties meet to exchange ideas, sharpen skills, learn new techniques, debate current issues, and mingle with colleagues and friends. The Call for Participation is now available.

Refereed papers submissions (draft full papers only) due: April 30, 2009