Hi Jay,

Barath and I are reaching out to all of the LIMITS organisers to drum up some interest and promotion of the workshop, our distributed workshop plan and new paper format.

It would be a huge favour to us if you could reach out personally to people you know might be interested and see if they’re interested in submitting a paper for LIMITS 2020.

We’re doing this outreach earlier this year as we are looking for more generation contributions focusing on what we’ve branded as  "future systems paper” where there is an empirical contribution towards a LIMITS 2030 future (more details below).

Warm regards,

Oliver and Barath

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Call for Papers 
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LIMITS 2020 
Sixth Workshop on Computing within Limits 
June 21-22, 2020 
Bristol, UK and Los Angeles, USA 
https://computingwithinlimits.org/2020/

The LIMITS workshop concerns the role of computing in a human society affected by real-world limits (ecological or otherwise). We seek to reshape the computing research agenda as these topics are seldom discussed in contemporary computing research. LIMITS 2020 solicits papers looking ahead to 2030, as described below. 

This year, LIMITS will be a distributed workshop between USC (Los Angeles, California, USA) and University of Bristol (UK). All main sessions will be held in parallel (morning in Los Angeles, evening in Bristol), with local events in addition to these main sessions. LIMITS in the UK will be co-located with ICT4S. 

LIMITS 2020 aims to reach computing researchers outside of the LIMITS community who might ask: "what does research in a LIMITS future look like?" 

Suppose the ideas of LIMITS have diffused throughout both computing research and broader society, such that LIMITS 2030, ten years from now, need not exist as a separate venue. What would researchers and engineers be building in that future world? 

To reach this audience, we solicit papers on "future systems". Such systems are socio-technical systems that are responsive to the LIMITS 2030 world that might exist. This year we specifically discourage "critical", "analysis", and similar types of papers. 

A future systems paper concerns the design, implementation, and/or evaluation of a real tool, system, app, or any other artifact situated in a future (year 2030) world. Such contributions would be of a flavor that could be imagined to be published in a more applied venue of computing (e.g., UIST for HCI researchers, NSDI for networked systems researchers, etc.). That is, if the researchers from more-applied, less-critical areas of computing were to shift their topics of interest to align with this envisioned world of 2030, what would they build? Empirical evaluation is strongly encouraged; papers without an empirical evaluation are acceptable if they provide substantial evidence regarding the practical usefulness of the future system(s) described. 

We look to a classic vision outlined by Donella Meadows (see LIMITS website for details) for the future world of 2030 papers should be placed within. That is, authors should imagine that one or more of the economic, societal, business, energy, and other changes that Meadows describes here are already coming into being, but require computing to help them take shape. 

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Abstract registration deadline: March 6, 2020, 11:59pm Pacific Time 
Paper submission deadline: March 20, 2020, 11:59pm Pacific Time 
Paper reviews available: April 10, 2020 
Camera ready deadline: May 15, 2020 
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Program Co-Chairs: 
Oliver Bates, Lancaster University, o.bates@lancaster.ac.uk 
Barath Raghavan, USC, barath.raghavan@usc.edu