Call for papers
The goal of the WAMOS workshop is to present novel ideas and results (both practical as well as research oriented) in the field of microkernel based operating systems. Participation is open to anyone, however students participating in the technical seminar on Advanced Operating Systems at HSRM are explicitly for^H^H^Hasked to submit their work.
The authors of the most successful papers may be asked to review their work and subsequently submit it to a "real" workshop.
Topics of interest
In this year's instance of the workshop, the main focus is on the effects of hardware vulnerabilites such as the Meltdown and Spectre attacks to the safety, security and design of microkernel-based systems. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Effects of hardware vulnerabilities on microkernel architectures
- Mitigation of hardware vulnerabilities using microkernel mechanisms
- Mitigation of hardware vulnerabilities using open hardware architectures
- Microkernels for open hardware architectures
- Safety and security implications
Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are not being considered in another forum. Papers submitted will be thoroughly reviewed for novelty, relevance, technical quality and scientific soundness by the members of the program committee. Authors of accepted papers will have an option of improving their submissions according to the reviewer's comments, before providing camera-ready papers.
All submissions must be in the standard ACM format for conference proceedings, small double column format (acmsmall). There are two categories of papers being submitted:
- Short papers: single author, up to six pages
- Long papers: two authors, up to ten pages
Papers should be clearly marked in the text as either "Short Research Paper" or "Long Research Paper" and should be submitted in the appropriate category. Short research papers should be written by a single author and should not exceed six pages double column including figures and tables, long papers should not exceed ten pages and should be written by two authors. Submit via Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wamos2018
All authors are required to to attend the workshop and present their paper. Presented papers will be published in the WAMOS 2018 proceedings that will not be published by ACM and will not be included in the ACM Digital Library. Nevertheless, authors are required to adhere to the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism as well as to the ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions.
Important dates
- Final submission deadline is 23:59 Central European Time on July
1522, 2018 - Feedback is due on July 29, 2018
- Camera-ready Papers are due 23:59 Central European Time on August 6, 2018
- The Workshop will take place in on August 09, 2018
Program Chair and Commitee
Chair: Robert Kaiser, Wiesbaden University of applied sciences
PC:
- Philipp Altmeyer, Wiesbaden University of applied sciences
- Jonas Depoix, Wiesbaden University of applied sciences
- Bernhard Görtz, Wiesbaden University of applied sciences
- Harald Heckmann, Wiesbaden University of applied sciences
- Alexios Karagiozidis, Wiesbaden University of applied sciences
- Thorsten Knoll, Wiesbaden University of applied sciences
- Marc Löw, Wiesbaden University of applied sciences
- Lars Müller, Wiesbaden University of applied sciences
- Jens Nazarenus, Wiesbaden University of applied sciences
- Lucas Noack, Wiesbaden University of applied sciences
- Tobias Reichert, Wiesbaden University of applied sciences
- Daniel Schultz, Wiesbaden University of applied sciences
- Marius Sternberger, Wiesbaden University of applied sciences
- Ben Stuart, Wiesbaden University of applied sciences
- Dominik Swierzy, Wiesbaden University of applied sciences
- Danny Ziesche, Wiesbaden University of applied sciences