Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments

Abstract

Welcome to the 10th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE'14). We are happy to present the community with a strong program covering a wide range of virtualization topics. This year, authors registered 56 papers, of which 49 were finalized as complete submissions. The program committee (PC) consisted of 2 chairs and 18 researchers active in virtualizationrelated aspects of programming languages and operating systems. Members were allowed to submit papers; the co-chairs chose not to submit anything. Reviewing was double-blind and was done almost entirely by the committee, with a little assistance from outsiders with special expertise. All submissions received 4-5 reviews, and authors were given the opportunity for rebuttal before the PC meeting. The program committee meeting was held in January at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. Most of the committee members were present in person. In an 8-hour session, we individually discussed all papers but those that were marked as early rejects due to receiving only negative reviews. We followed conventional rules for conflict of interest, with conflicted members (including co-chairs) leaving the room during discussion of the conflicted papers. In the end, we accepted 18 papers for presentation at the conference, of which about half were shepherded by PC members. In addition to the 18 accepted papers, the VEE'14 program includes two keynote presentations by Galen Hunt and Jan Vitek. We hope that the resulting proceedings will serve as a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners in the area of virtualization.