RESoLVE 2012 workshop CFP

Hello All!

Below is the CFP for the RESoLVE 2012 workshop (collocated with 
ASPLOS 2012). The theme of the workshop is about coordinating
across layers (application, runtime, OS, hypervisor) and
memory-management is definitely one challenge in this space.
The deadline is December 10th and the workshop is looking
for 6-8-page works-in-progress with an intent to spark discussion
and get early feedback. Please consider submitting. Thanks!

                             -- Alex



                 Virtualized Environments
                      (RESoLVE'12)
     http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/conferences/resolve12/
  	
ASPLOS 2012 Workshop, London, UK
March 3rd, 2012
UPDATE: Submission deadline extended to 10 Dec

Introduction:
Today's applications typically target high-level runtime systems and
frameworks. At the same time, the operating systems on which they run
are themselves increasingly being deployed on top of (hardware)
virtual machines. These trends are enabling applications to be
written, tested, and deployed more quickly, while simplifying tasks
such as checkpointing, providing fault-tolerance, enabling data and
computation migration, and making better, more power-efficient use of
hardware infrastructure.

However, much current work on virtualization still focuses on running
unmodified legacy systems and most higher-level runtime systems ignore
the fact that they are deployed in virtual environments. The workshop
on Runtime Environments, Systems, Layering, and Virtualized
Environments (RESoLVE'12) aims to brings together researchers in both
the OS and language level virtual machine communities to exchange
ideas and experiences and to discuss how these separate layers can
take advantage of each others' services.

The aim of the workshop is to discuss work-in-progress research around
how these layers interact and complement each other, and how best to
support new software architectures:

    * better structuring / communication of services and divisions of labor
    * trade-offs in the boundary between trusted and untrusted bases and 
      mechanisms to provide information / feedback across the layers
    * approaches for particular services (e.g. memory management / 
      garbage collection / synchronization / signalling / scheduling)
    * prototypes demonstrating combinations of SW- and HW-based techniques 
      to provide better isolation, scaling, and quality-of-service
    * enable legacy systems to more readily take advantage of new hardware 
      and software capabilities through virtual appliances and services
    * visualization / introspection techniques for understanding the 
      resulting systems 

The RESoLVE'12 workshop will be co-located with ASPLOS 2012 in London,
UK. The goal is to complement the larger discussion at ASPLOS and VEE.

The RESoLVE'12 workshop will be the second in the series, following on
from the success of the RESoLVE'11 workshop last year.
  	
Important dates:
    * Submission deadline: 10 December 2011
    * Notification: 14 January 2012
    * Camera-ready deadline: 4 February 2012
    * Workshop: 3 March 2012 

  	
Paper submission:

Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished work that
exposes a new problem, advocates a specific solution, or reports on
actual experience. Submissions will be judged based upon their
correctness, relevance, originality, significance, and
clarity. Submissions should be between 6 and 8 pages. Submitted papers
should include the full list of authors and affiliations, and be in
standard double-column ACM SIGPLAN conference format (please use the 9
pt. template), and submitted in PDF format. Please use the Easychair
site for submitting your paper to RESoLVE '12.

Thanks to our generous sponsors, we are able to offer several travel
grants for students to attend the workshop and present papers. If you
are a student and wish to be considered for a travel grant, please
indicate this by selecting the appropriate submission category on the
easychair form when you submit your paper.

Final papers will be available to participants electronically at the
meeting, but to facilitate resubmission to more formal venues, no
archival proceedings will be published, and papers will not be sent to
the ACM Digital Library. Authors will have the option of making their
final paper accessible from the workshop website.
  	
Organization:
  	
Co-Chairs:
Ross McIlroy (Google, UK)
Jeremy Singer (University of Glasgow, UK)
Program Committee:

    * Alex Garthwaite (VMWare, USA)
    * Tim Harris (Microsoft Research, UK)
    * Chris Hawblitzel (Microsoft Research, USA)
    * Matt Horsnell (ARM, UK)
    * Tomas Kalibera (University of Kent, UK)
    * Stephen Kell (University of Oxford, UK)
    * Orran Krieger
    * Chandra Krintz (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
    * Geoffrey Lefebvre (Ericsson, Canada)
    * Ian Rogers (Google, USA)
    * Ian Sommerville (St Andrews, UK)
    * Bennet Yee (Google, USA)
    * Olivier Zendra (INRIA, France)