From: toni@usenix.org (Toni Veglia)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: USENIX 1994 WINTER CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS NOW AVAILABLE
Date: 3 Feb 94 23:28:02 GMT
Organization: USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA
If you couldn't join us in San Francisco, you can now purchase the
proceedings from the USENIX 1994 Winter Technical Conference.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
USENIX Winter 1994 Technical Conference
January 17-21, 1994
San Francisco, California
SIMPLE DATABASE TOOLS
Chair: Rafael Alonso
Finding Similar Files in a Large File System
Udi Manber, Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona
cql - A Flat File Database Query Language
Glenn Fowler, AT&T Bell Laboratories
GLIMPSE: A Tool to Search Through Entire File Systems
Udi Manber, Sun Wu, Department of Computer Science, University of
Arizona
WIDE - AREA INFORMATION ACCESS
Chair: Frederick S. Glover
Drinking from the Firehose: Multicast USENET News
Kurt J. Lidl, Josh Osborne, Joe Malcolm, UUNET Technologies, Inc.
The refdbms Distributed Bibliographic Database System
Richard A. Golding, Vrije Universiteit, Darrell D. E. Long, University
of California, Santa Cruz; John Wilkes, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Filesystem Daemons as Unifying Mechanism for Network Information Access
Steve Summit, Consultant, Seattle, Washington
INTERPROCESS COMMUNICATION
Chair: Cathy Watkins
Concert/C: A Language for Distributed Programming
Joshua S. Auerbach, Arthur P. Goldberg, Ajei S. Gopal, Mark T.
Kennedy, James R. Russell, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Evolving Mach 3.0 to A Migrating Thread Model
Bryan Ford, Jay Lepreau, Department of Computer Science, University
of Utah
Tread Marks: Distributed Shared Memory on Standard Workstations and
Operating System
Peter Keleher, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Willy Zwaenepoel,
Department of Computer Science, Rice University
EFFICIENT SCHEDULING AND NETWORKING
Chair: Michael B. Jones
Workstation Support for Real-Time Multimedia Communication
Olof Hagsand, Peter Sjodin, Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Experience and Results from Implementation of an ATM Socket Family
Richard Black, Simon Crosby, University of Cambridge Computer
Laboratory
Efficient Packet Demultiplexing for Multiple Endpoints and Large
Messages
Masanobu Yuhara, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Brian N. Bershad, Chris
Maeda, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University; J.
Eliot B. Moss, Department of Computer Science, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
KERNEL PERFORMANCE
Chair: Brian N. Bershad
Latency Analysis of TCP on an ATM Network
Alec Wolman, Geoff Voelker, Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Department of
Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Improving UNIX Kernel and Networking Performance Using Profile Based
Optimization
Steven E. Speer, Rajiv Kumar, Hewlett-Packard; Craig Partridge, Bolt
Beranek and Newman
Memory Behavior for an X11 Window System
J. Bradley Chen, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
University
SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
Chair: Judith E. Grass
A Uniform Name Service for Spring's UNIX Environment
Michael N. Nelson, Silicon Graphics, Inc.; Sanjay R. Radia, SunSoft,
Inc.
ACID: A Debugger Built from a Language
Phil Winterbottom, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Acme: A User Interface for Programmers
Rob Pike. AT&T Bell Laboratories
NFS
Chair: Margo Seltzer
File System Design for an NFS File Server Appliance
Dave Hitz, James Lau, Michael Malcolm, Network Appliance Corporation
Improving the Write Performance of an NFS Server
Chet Juszczak, Digital Equipment Corporation
Not Quite NFS, Soft Cache Consistency for NFS
Rick Macklem, Department of Computing and Information Science,
University of Guelph
DISKS AND FILE SYSTEMS
Chair: David Presotto
A Quantitative Analysis of Disk Drive Power Management in Portable
Computers
Kester Li, Roger Kumpf, Paul Horton, Thomas Anderson, Computer Science
Division, University of California, Berkeley
Thwarting the Power-Hungry Disk
Fred Douglis, P. Krishnan, Brian Marsh, Matsushita Information
Technology Laboratory
A Usage Profile and Evaluation of a Wide-Area Distributed File System
Mirjana Spasojevic, Transarc Corporation and M. Satyanarayanan, School
of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
DEALING WITH THE PC WORLD
Chair: Nathaniel S. Borenstein
Wux: UNIX Tools under Windows
Diomidis Spinellis, Department of Computing, Imperial College of
Science, Technology and Medicine
An MS-DOS Filesystem for UNIX
Alessandro Forin, Gerald Malan, School of Computer Science, Carnegie
Mellon University
An Overview of the NetWare Operating System
Greg Minshall, Drew Major, Kyle Powell, Novell, Inc.
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