CFP

ABC 2020: AsiaBSDCon 2020

Tokyo University of Science

Tokyo, Japan, March 19-22, 2020

Conference website	https://2020.asiabsdcon.org
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=abc2020
Submission deadline	January 6, 2020
Final Paper Submission deadline	February 16, 2020

AsiaBSDCon 2020 Call for Papers

AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. The next conference will be held in Tokyo, in March of 2020. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our open source community are shared with the widest possible audience.

How to Submit

The initial submission of your paper must be in the form of a complete paper or an extended abstract between 2 and 12 pages long (A4 paper) in English. While there is no paticular format for the abstract, submissions which are much beyond this form such as too long or too short one, or talk proposals with no associated paper will be rejected. Submissions should be written from a strong technical background and should clearly demonstrate that:

There is a significant problem being solved or a real world experience being demonstrated.
There is active work being done.
There is enough progress to make a complete written submission.
There is data proving either the success or failure of any claims.

The technical program committee are interested in all technical areas which relate to the BSDs, including user applications, novel interfaces, networking, embedded systems, security, device support and systems both inside and outside of the kernel. Include appropriate references to establish that you are familiar with related work, and where possible, provide detailed data to establish that you have a working implementation or measurement tool.

Submissions will be judged on the quality of the written submission and whether or not the work is of interest to the community. Business development or marketing pieces are not appropriate for submission. All papers should be considered 'open source', and as such, non-disclosure agreements and other limits will require us to return the paper.

Abstracts and papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format. Go to the submission page and submit your paper with the following information in the "topic" and "keyword" field:

"Topic" in the submission form must be "Paper" if you are submitting a paper.
"Keyword" field must have name of the speaker in the author list, whether a visa application is required or not to visit Japan, and estimation of your travel expense

Please enter them because the technical program committee will support airfare and hotel accommodation fee of the accepted speakers. Note that this support is limited to one speaker for each paper. If a paper has multiple authors, please make it clear that who will be the speaker. If an accepted speaker needs a visa application to visit Japan, the technical program committee will send necessary documents. And if you need financial support because of reasons such as that you are a full-time student, please contact secretary@asiabsdcon.org.

If you have questions or encounter problems, please send electronic mail to the program chair at secretary@asiabsdcon.org

All of the authors will be notified by 12 January 2020. All accepted submissions will be expected to produce a final paper for publication in the proceedings and electronic files for the conference web site by 16 February, 2020. The final paper should describe work that has been completed as of the time of their submission. If necessary, members of the program committee will help shepherd authors through the writing process prior to final acceptance for publication in the proceedings.

Each accepted paper must be presented by at least one author.

To discuss potential submissions and for inquiries regarding the content of the conference program, contact the program chair at secretary@asiabsdcon.org.

Tutorial Proposal

AsiaBSDCon offers full and half-day tutorials on a range of topics from experts in the BSD community. Topics range from how the kernel works to administering and securing BSD systems.

To provide the best possible tutorial offerings, we continually solicit proposals for new tutorials. If you are interested in presenting a tutorial, please submit your proposal as abstract with your biography, outline of the contents including time and target audience by using the paper submission form with "Topic" as "Tutorial Proposal". A 1 or 2 pages summary of them in PDF would be sufficient as a tutorial proposal.

Important Dates

6 January 2020: Deadline for Submission of Tutorial Proposals
6 January 2020: Deadline for Paper Submission
12 January 2020: Notification of Acceptance of Tutorial Proposals
12 January 2020: Notification of Acceptance of Papers
16 February 2020: Deadline for Submission of Tutorial Materials
16 February 2020: Deadline for Submission of Final Papers
19 March 2020: Conference 1st day: Tutorials and Meetings 1
20 March 2020: Conference 2nd day: Tutorials and Meetings 2
21 March 2020: Conference 3rd day: Paper Session 1
22 March 2020: Conference 4th day: Paper Session 2

Committees

General Chair

Hiroki Sato (FreeBSD Project, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Program Committee

George V. Neville-Neil (Neville-Neil Consulting)
Hidetoshi Shimokawa (FreeBSD Project)
Masanobu SAITOH (The NetBSD Foundation)
Henning Brauer (OpenBSD Project)
Li-Wen Hsu (FreeBSD Project)
Allan Jude (FreeBSD Project)

Publication

All of the accepted papers will be published as printed proceedings and PDFs on the official website with unique DOIs (digital object identifiers) assigned.

Venue

The conference will be held in Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan, on March 19-22, 2020.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to secretary@asiabsdcon.org.