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

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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.