CALL FOR PAPERS

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The Fifth International Workshop on Software Support for Portable Storage
(IWSSPS 2010)

http://iwssps2010.cs.arizona.edu/

October 28, 2010
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA (Co-located with EMSOFT 2010)
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New emerging storage media such as Flash memory require extensive software
support for higher performance and reliability, lower power consumption,
and value-added functionalities. The goal of this workshop is to bring
together people from industry and academia who are interested in all aspects
of software support for portable storage. The workshop will provide a forum
to present and discuss new ideas, new research directions and to review
current trends in this area.

The scope of the workshop includes, but is not limited to:

* File systems for portable storage
* Interaction between file systems and portable storage
* Flash memory storage designs
* Solid state disks (SSDs)
* Power management for HDDs including microdrives
* DRM (Digital Right Management) for portable storage
* Security support for portable storage
* Distributed mobile storage
* Software support for new non-volatile memories (PRAM, FRAM, etc.)
* Software reliability for portable storage
* Software fault tolerance techniques for portable storage
* Novel applications of portable storage


Important Dates
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Paper submission: August 07, 2010 (23:00 PST)
Acceptance notification: September 04, 2010
Camera ready: October 02, 2010


Workshop Organization
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General Chair
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Jen-Wei Hsieh, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Program Chair
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Bongki Moon, University of Arizona, USA

Program Committee
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Nitin Agrawal, NEC Laboratories, USA
Yuan-Hao Chang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Jongmoo Choi, Dankook University, Korea
Jen-Wei Hsieh, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Insik Jin, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, USA
Bjorn Por Jonsson, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Jaesoo Lee, Samsung Electronics, Korea
Chang-Gun Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
Sang-Won Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Qiong Luo, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Suman Nath, Microsoft Research, USA
Praveen Rao, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
Mustafa Uysal, Vmware, USA
Stratis Viglas, University of Edinburgh, UK