An Evaluation of the Ninth SOSP Submissions or: How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper.

Abstract

On March the program committee for the th Symposium on Operating System Principles having read the eighty three papers submitted selected sixteen for presentation at the symposium This acceptance ratio of about one in ve approximates those of past SOSPs although the number of submissions was somewhat lower than in recent years Several members of the program committee found it surprisingly easy to separate the good papers from the bad ones indeed the ten committee members quickly agreed on the disposition of over of the papers As the acceptance ratio indicates most of these were rejections