CALL FOR PAPERS
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CONFERENCE THEMES
The conference covers all facets of the practice and theory of
system and network administration. Potential topics for refereed
papers, invited talks, and panels include:
Technologies
- Innovative system administration tools and techniques
- Distributed or automated system administration
- Administering high availability systems
- Disaster recovery systems
- Scalability approaches
- Enterprise computing infrastructure
- Host and network security
- Applications of tools and techniques from other disciplines
- New challenges and integration of emerging technologies
Theory and Practice of System Administration
- Methodology, paradigms, and models for system administration
- Analysis of "best practices" in systems administration
- Analysis and comparison of alternatives for accomplishing tasks
- Case studies and lessons learned
- Metrics and benchmarks for systems administration
- Performance analysis and monitoring
- Budgeting, cost analyses, and project planning/management
techniques for systems administration.
Human factors
- Management issues and strategies
- User and administrator psychology
- Helpdesk and user support strategies
- The system administrator's role in the organization
- Policy issues
- Collaboration with other kinds of administrators
- Politics of system administration
- The effect of organizational maturity
Education and Knowledge
- University teaching programs
- Educational technologies for system and network administration
- Training techniques for system administration
- Web resources and knowledge bases
- Standards and certifications
It is generally agreed that one cannot describe a truly revolutionary
idea without breaking away from the expected. If your topic is
relevant to system administrators but is not listed, please submit an
abstract anyway. If there is any question as to whether your topic
will "fit", please contact the Program Chair by email to:
lisa02chair@usenix.org.
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