ISMM'11 Call for Papers

International Symposium on Memory Management 2011

San Jose, CA, June 4-5, 2011

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/ismm11

CALL FOR PAPERS

ISMM is a forum for research in memory management. Areas of interest =
include but are not limited to:

 * Memory allocation and deallocation
 * Garbage collection algorithms and implementations
 * Compiler analyses and tools to aid memory management
 * Empirical analysis of heap intensive programs
 * Formal analysis and verification of heap intensive programs
 * Memory system design and analysis
 * Verification of memory management algorithms
 * Development and evaluation of open source implementations

ISMM solicits full-length submissions covering new work on these topics, =
as well as papers presenting confirmations or refutations of important =
prior results. Surveys and comparative analyses that shed new light on =
previously published techniques are also welcome.=20

ORGANIZERS

General Chair: Hans-J. Boehm, HP Labs
Program Chair: David F. Bacon, IBM Research

Program Committee:
 * Mike Bond, Ohio State=20
 * Angela Demke Brown, U. Toronto=20
 * Perry Cheng, IBM Research=20
 * Daniel Frampton, Australian National U.=20
 * Rajiv Gupta, U.C. Riverside=20
 * Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego=20
 * Matthias Meyer, U. Stuttgart=20
 * Erez Petrank, Technion=20
 * Kostis Sagonas, Uppsala U.=20
 * Jennifer Sartor, EPFL=20
 * Guy Steele, Sun Labs, Oracle=20
 * Ben L. Titzer, Google=20
 * Taiichi Yuasa, Kyoto University=20

KEY DATES

Abstracts due: January 31, 2011
Submissions due: February 7, 2011
Author response: March 7-8, 2011
Notification: March 14, 2011
Final copy: March 25, 2011
Conference: June 4-5, 2011

Note: It is acceptable to submit an initial abstract for a paper also =
submitted to PLDI. The ISMM submission must be withdrawn, i.e. no full =
paper should be submitted, if the paper is accepted by PLDI. PLDI =
reviewer comments should be addressed in the final ISMM submission.=20


SUBMISSIONS

Submitted papers must be in English and formatted to print on US Letter =
(8.5 x 11 inches) paper. Submissions must contain an abstract and postal =
and electronic mailing addresses for at least one contact author. All =
papers must be submitted on-line, preferably in Portable Document Format =
(PDF), although the submission system will also accept PostScript. =
Submissions should be no more than 10 pages (including bibliography, =
excluding well marked appendices) in standard ACM SIGPLAN conference =
format: two columns, nine-point font (or larger) on a ten-point baseline =
(or larger), with columns 20pc (3.33in) wide and 54pc (9in) tall, and a =
column gutter of 2pc (0.33in). Detailed formatting guidelines along
with formatting templates or style files for LaTeX are available at =
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm. Papers that =
violate these guidelines will be rejected by the program chair. Program =
committee members are not required to read appendices, and so a paper =
should be intelligible without them. All accepted papers will appear in =
the published proceedings.


Review Committee

ISMM uses a separate Review Committee (RC) as part of the reviewing =
process. The RC complements the Program Committee (PC) by providing =
expert reviews. The same reviewing standards apply to the RC as for the =
PC. However, RC members review only a few papers each, and do not =
participate in the PC meeting. The use of the RC increases the breadth =
and depth of the reviewer pool.

Rebuttal

The rebuttal process will occur in early March 2011, and will give the =
authors opportunity to respond succinctly to factual errors in reviews, =
before the program committee meets to make its decisions. The committee =
may, but need not, respond to rebuttals or revise reviews at or after =
the committee meeting.

Proceedings

The proceedings will be published by the ACM. Authors should read the =
ACM Author Guidelines and related information. Authors of accepted =
papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the =
conference. For additional information please feel free to contact the =
Program Chair.