The 2008 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on
                      Virtual Execution Environments

                       Seattle, USA, March 5-7, 2008
                        Co-located with ASPLOS 2008
                          http://vee08.cs.tcd.ie/

                            Call For Papers

The VEE conference brings together researchers and practitioners in
the area of virtual execution environments for programs and systems.
The conference seeks original papers on virtualization at all levels
of the hardware and software stack.  The topics of interest including,
but are not limited to:

  o    Virtual machines for high-level languages
  o    Programming language support for virtualization
  o    Compiler support for virtualization including dynamic compilation
  o    Binary translation and optimization
  o    Novel techniques and applications of interpreters
  o    Automatic resource and memory management
  o    Virtualization for security and reliability
  o    Virtualization technologies for grid computing
  o    Virtualization technologies for parallel computing
  o    Virtual machine monitors
  o    Operating system support for virtualization
  o    Management technologies for virtual environments
  o    Large-scale virtual environments
  o    Virtual Storage 
  o    Virtualization technologies for desktop applications
  o    Applications that use virtualization in novel ways
  o    Other experiences with virtual execution environments
  o    Performance analysis and debugging for virtual exec. environments


IMPORTANT DATES

  All times specified below are US Pacific Daylight Savings Time.
  These deadlines are strict and *no extensions will be granted*.
  To convert these times to other time zones, see
  http://vee08.cs.tcd.ie/cfp


      Abstract Submission Deadline:  August 28, 2007 at 11:59pm PDT
         Paper Submission Deadline:  September 4, 2007 at 11:59pm PDT
        Notification of Acceptance:  November 2, 2007
            Final Paper Submission:  January 7, 2008


  *Note the earlier-than-usual deadline, needed in order to co-locate
  VEE 2008 with ASPLOS.*


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

  Papers must be formatted according to the SIGPLAN 9-point
  proceedings format and should be no longer than 10 pages in this
  format. This 10-page limit includes everything (i.e., it is the
  total length of the paper).  The formatting rules will be strictly
  enforced, and papers that do not conform to them may be
  automatically rejected by the program chairs.  Templates for the
  SIGPLAN proceedings format can be found at:

      http://acm.org/sigplan/authorInformation.htm

  Submissions should be in PDF and printable on US Letter-sized paper. 

  Submitted papers must describe work unpublished in venues with a
  formal proceedings, and not currently submitted for publication
  elsewhere.  See the SIGPLAN republication policy for more details:

      http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/republicationpolicy.htm

  Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign ACM copyright
  release forms. Proceedings will be published by ACM Press.


PAPER EVALUATION

  The program committee will evaluate the technical contribution of
  each submission as well as its general accessibility to the VEE
  audience. Papers will be judged on significance, originality,
  relevance, correctness, and clarity. The abstract and introduction
  must be written so that they can be understood by an audience with
  varied expertise. The paper should clearly identify what has been
  accomplished, why it is significant, and how it compares with
  previous work.  Papers in new areas or novel approaches to existing
  areas are especially encouraged.  It is acceptable for papers in new
  areas to contain fewer quantitative evaluations and comparisons than
  those in more established areas.  Suggestions on how to prepare a
  good submission can be found at the following two web sites:

      http://www.sigops.org/advice.html
      http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/conferences/author-info/


VEE ORGANIZATION

    General Chair     :	 David Gregg   (Trinity College Dublin)
    Program Co-Chair  :	 Vikram Adve   (University of Illinois)
    Program Co-Chair  :	 Brian Bershad (University of Washington)
    Registration Chair:	 Rodric Rabbah (IBM Research)
    Local Arrangements
    Chair	      :  Mark Lewin    (Microsoft Research)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Vikram S. Adve, University of Illinois
    Steve Blackburn, Australian National University
    Hans Boehm, HP Labs
    Brian Bershad, University of Washington
    Trishul Chilimbi, Microsoft Research
    Robert Cohn, Intel
    Simon Crosby, Xensource
    Steve Gribble, University of Washington
    Sam King, University of Illinois
    Monica Lam, Stanford University
    Jack Lo, VMWare
    Tim Lyons, Morgan Stanley
    Greg Morrisett, Harvard University
    Ian Pratt, University of Cambridge
    Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark
    Mendel Rosenblum, Stanford University
    Mary Lou Soffa, University of Virginia


STEERING COMMITTEE


    CHAIR: Hans Boehm, HP Labs
    Alva Couch, Tufts University
    Michael Franz, UC Irvine
    David Grove, IBM Research
    Steve Hand, University of Cambridge
    Michael Hind, IBM Research
    Chandra Krintz, UC Santa Barbara
    Sam Midkiff, Purdue University
    David Tarditi, Microsoft Research
    Jan Vitek, Purdue University