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<P><FONT SIZE=2>ACM HotNets-IX<BR>
October 20-21, 2010<BR>
Monterey, California, USA<BR>
<A HREF="http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2010/">http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2010/</A><BR>
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Call for Papers<BR>
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The Ninth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-IX) will<BR>
bring together people with interest in computer networks to engage in<BR>
a lively debate on the theory and practice of networking. Continuing<BR>
the HotNets tradition, the workshop will provide a venue for<BR>
presenting and discussing innovative ideas that have the potential to<BR>
significantly influence the community. The goal is to promote<BR>
community-wide discussion of those ideas.<BR>
<BR>
We invite researchers and practitioners to submit short position<BR>
papers describing such ideas. A paper could, for example, expose a new<BR>
problem, advocate a new approach, re-frame or debunk existing work,<BR>
report unexpected results from a deployment, or propose new evaluation<BR>
methodologies. We especially encourage submissions of early-stage work<BR>
and enticing but unproven ideas. Once fully developed and evaluated,<BR>
the work may be relevant to conferences such as SIGCOMM, SOSP, SenSys,<BR>
NSDI, MobiCom, PODC, or Infocom.<BR>
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HotNets takes a broad view of networking research. This view includes<BR>
new ideas relating to (but not limited to) home and enterprise<BR>
networks, ISP networks, sensor and personal area networks, wireless<BR>
and acoustic networks, data center networks, peer-to-peer networks,<BR>
network architecture, and disruption-tolerant networks. It encompasses<BR>
all aspects of such networks, including (but not limited to) resource<BR>
management, economics and evolution, robustness and security,<BR>
mobility, interactions with applications, energy, measurement and<BR>
diagnosis, and hardware.<BR>
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Position papers will be selected based on originality, likelihood of<BR>
spawning insightful discussion at the workshop, and technical<BR>
merit. Accepted papers will be posted online prior to the workshop and<BR>
a workshop summary will be published in ACM SIGCOMM's Computer<BR>
Communication Review (CCR), widely disseminating the ideas discussed<BR>
at the workshop.<BR>
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Workshop Participation<BR>
<BR>
HotNets is an invitation-only workshop. To ensure an interactive<BR>
atmosphere, attendance will be limited to around 60<BR>
people. Invitations will be extended per the following priorities:<BR>
<BR>
* one author per accepted paper, any speakers invited by the<BR>
Program Committee, and the Program and Steering Committees,<BR>
<BR>
* co-authors of accepted and submitted papers, preferring students<BR>
as available travel support allows, and<BR>
<BR>
* event-sponsor representatives and additional authors of<BR>
submitted papers at the discretion of the Program Committee.<BR>
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Submission Instructions<BR>
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Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages (10 point font, 1 inch<BR>
margins). All submissions must be blind: submissions must not indicate<BR>
the names or affiliations of the authors in the paper. Only electronic<BR>
submissions in PDF will be accepted. Submissions must be written in<BR>
English, render without error using standard tools (e.g., Acrobat<BR>
Reader), and print on US-Letter sized paper. Papers must contain novel<BR>
ideas and must differ significantly in content from previously<BR>
published papers and papers under simultaneous submission.<BR>
<BR>
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Important Dates<BR>
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Abstract registration: July 2, 2010 (11:59pm EDT)<BR>
Paper submission: July 9, 2010 (11:59pm EDT)<BR>
Notification of decision: August 27, 2010<BR>
Camera-ready submission: September 27, 2010<BR>
Workshop dates: October 20-21, 2010<BR>
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Organizing Committee:<BR>
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General Chairs:<BR>
Geoffrey Xie (Naval Postgraduate School)<BR>
Robert Beverly (Naval Postgraduate School)<BR>
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Program Chairs:<BR>
Robert Morris (MIT)<BR>
Bruce Davie (Cisco Systems)<BR>
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Program Committee:<BR>
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Bryan Ford (Yale)<BR>
Albert Greenberg (Microsoft)<BR>
Paul Francis (Max Planck Institute)<BR>
Laurent Mathy (University of Lancaster)<BR>
Ben Zhao (UC Santa Barbara)<BR>
Eddie Kohler (UCLA)<BR>
Vern Paxson (UC Berkeley)<BR>
John Lockwood (Algo-Logic and Stanford)<BR>
Ratul Mahajan (Microsoft)<BR>
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