FINAL PROGRAM

Seventh Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems

Rio Rico Resort and Country Club, Rio Rico, AZ

SUNDAY MARCH 28 1999

19:00 to 21:00

WELCOME RECEPTION

MONDAY MARCH 29 1999

08:30 to 09:00	CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
09:00 to 10:30	SESSION 1: FILE SYSTEMS (Chair: Mary Baker) "Elephant: The File System That Never Forgets" Santry, D.J., Feeley, M.J., Hutchinson, N.C., Veitch, A.C. "Caching Documents with Active Properties" de Lara, E., Petersen, K., Terry, D.B., LaMarca, A., Thornton, J., Salisbury, M., Dourish, P., Edwards, K., Lamping, J. "The Case for Adaptive File Access Pattern Modeling" Kroeger, T.M., Long, D.D.E.
10:30 to 11:00	BREAK
11:00 to 12:30	SESSION 2: GREAT EXPECTATIONS (Chair: Jeff Chase) "ISTORE: Introspective Storage for Data-Intensive Network Services" Brown, A., Oppenheimer, D., Keeton, K., Thomas, R., Kubiatowicz, J., Patterson, D.A. "OS Support for General-Purpose Routers" Peterson, L.L., Karlin, S.C., Li, K. "Conductor: A Framework for Distributed Adaptation" Yarvis, M., Reiher, P., Popek, G.J.
12:30 to 14:00	LUNCH
14:00 to 15:30	SESSION 3: NETWORKING (Chair: Rich Draves) "An End-System Architecture for Unified Congestion Management" Rahul, H.S., Balakrishnan, H., Seshan, S. "The Case for Informed Transport Protocols" Savage, S., Cardwell, N., Anderson, T. "Transparent Communication Management in Wireless Networks" Kidston, D., Black, J.P., Kunz, T.
15:30 to 16:00	BREAK
16:00 to 17:30	SESSION 4 PANEL: "LIES, DAMN LIES & BENCHMARKS" (Chair: Mary Baker) "Brittle metrics in operating systems research" Mogul, J.C. "The Problems You're Having May Not Be the Problems You Think You're Having: Results from a Latency Study of Windows NT" Jones, M.B., Regehr, J. "The Case for Application-Specific Benchmarking" Seltzer, M., Krinsky, D., Smith, K., Zhang, C. PANEL: "THE THIN RED LINE" (Chair: Doug Terry) "Intra-Address Space Protection Using Segmentation Hardware" Chiueh, T., Venkitachalam, G., Pradhan, P. "Drawing the Red Line in Java" Back, G., Hsieh, W. "Hey, You Got Your Language In My Operating System!" Howell, J., Montague, M.
18:00 to 19:30	DINNER
20:00 to 21:30	OUTRAGEOUS OPINIONS (Moderator: Jeff Chase)

TUESDAY MARCH 30 1999

08:30 to 09:00	CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
09:00 to 10:30	SESSION 5: POTPOURRI (Chair: Doug Terry) "The Case for Higher-Level Power Management" Ellis, C.S. "Reliability Hierarchies" Chen, P.M., Lowell, D.E. "Command Management System for Next-Generation User Input" Tsai, M., Reiher, P., Popek, G.
10:30 to 11:00	BREAK
11:00 to 12:30	SESSION 6 PANEL: "IS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT A SOLVED PROBLEM?" (Chair: Bill Tetzlaff) "Soft Real Time Scheduling for General Purpose Client-Server Systems" Ingram, D. "Xenoservers: Accountable Execution of Untrusted Programs" Reed, D., Pratt, I., Early, S., Menage., P., Stratford, N. "An Economic Approach to Adaptive Resouce Management" Stratford, N., Mortier, R. "Tickets and Currencies Revisited: Extensions to Multi-Resouce Lottery Scheduling" Sullivan, D.G., Haas, R., Seltzer, M.I. "How To Schedule Unlimited Memory Pinning of Untrusted Processes Or Provisional Ideas About Service-Neutrality" Liedtke, J., Uhlig, V., Elphinstone, K., Jeager, T., Park Y.
12:30 to 14:00	LUNCH
14:00 to 16:00	SESSION 7: BREAKOUT SESSION (Chair: Satya)
16:00 to 16:30	BREAK
16:30 to 17:30	SESSION 8: GROUP SUMMARIES (Chair: Satya)