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. Please see our Conference Submissions Policy.

MetriCon 3.0: Third Workshop on Security Metrics
July 29, 2008, San Jose, CA

The MetriCon workshops offer lively, practical discussion in the area of security metrics. It is a, if not the, forum for quantifiable approaches and results to problems afflicting information security today, with a bias towards practical, specific implementations. Topics and presentations will be selected for their potential to stimulate discussion in the workshop. The Call for Participation is now available.

Requests to participate due: May 12, 2008  Deadline Approaching!

HotSec '08: 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security
July 29, 2008, San Jose, CA

HotSec is intended as a forum for lively discussion of aggressively innovative and potentially disruptive ideas in all aspects of systems security. Surprising results and thought-provoking ideas will be strongly favored; complete papers with polished results in well-explored research areas are discouraged. Papers will be selected for their potential to stimulate discussion in the workshop. Check out the Call for Papers to find out more.

Position paper submissions due: May 28, 2008   Deadline Approaching!

CSET '08: Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test
July 28, 2008, San Jose, CA

This workshop aims to gather both researchers who use testbeds for security experimentation and testbed developers to share their ideas and results and to discuss open problems in this area. While we particularly invite papers that deal with security experimentation, we are also interested in papers that address general testbed/experiment issues that have implications on security experimentation. See the Call for Papers for details.

Paper submissions due: May 31, 2008  Deadline Extended!

WOOT '08: 2nd USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies
July 28, 2008, San Jose, CA

Progress in the field of computer security is driven by a symbiotic relationship between our understanding of attack and of defense. The USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in system security to present research advancing the understanding of attacks on operating systems, networks, and applications. See the Call for Papers for information on how to participate.

Submissions due: June 1, 2008  Deadline Approaching!

HotDep '08: Fourth Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability
December 7, 2008, San Diego, CA, USA

HotDep will center on critical components of the infrastructures touching our everyday lives: operating systems, networking, security, wide-area and enterprise-scale distributed systems, mobile computing, compilers, and language design. Find out how to participate in the Call for Papers.

Paper submissions due: July 18, 2008

VEE '09: 2009 ACM International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments
Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN in cooperation with USENIX
March 11–13, 2009, Washington, D.C.

The VEE conference brings together researchers and practitioners in the area of virtual execution environments for programs and systems. The conference seeks original papers on virtualization at all levels of the hardware and software stack. For a list of topics of interest and submission guidelines, see the Call for Papers.

Abstracts due: August 29, 2008

WASL '08: First USENIX Workshop on the Analysis of System Logs
December 7, 2008, San Diego, CA, USA

WASL '08 will focus on novel techniques for extracting more information from existing logs and on methods to improve the information content of future logs. See the Call for Papers for information on how to participate.

Paper submissions due: September 2, 2008

SysML08: Third Workshop on Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning Techniques
December 11, 2008, San Diego, CA, USA

The SysML workshop brings together researchers working at the intersection of machine learning and systems to discuss ideas and techniques that will benefit the future of both fields. Check out the Call for Papers for more information.

Submissions due: September 26, 2008

NSDI '09: 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM and ACM SIGOPS
April 22–24, 2009, Boston, MA

NSDI focuses on the design principles and practical evaluation of large-scale networked and distributed systems. The program committee seeks a broad variety of work that furthers the knowledge and understanding of the networked systems community as a whole, continues a significant research dialog, or pushes the architectural boundaries of large-scale network services. See the Call for Papers for details.

Paper titles and abstracts due: October 3, 2008

HotPar '09: First USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism
March 30–31, 2009, Berkeley, CA

HotPar '09 will bring together researchers and practitioners doing innovative work in the area of parallel computing. HotPar recognizes the broad impact of multicore computing and seeks relevant contributions from all fields, including application design, languages and compilers, systems, and architecture. Check out the Call for Papers for more information.

Submissions due: October 17, 2008

HotOS XII: 12th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems
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