Editorial Charter

Scope

The ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS) is a new journal with an intent to publish original archival papers in the area of storage and closely related disciplines. Articles that appear in TOS will tend either to present new techniques and concepts or to report novel experiences and experiments with practical systems. Storage is a broad and multidisciplinary area that comprises of network protocols, resource management, data backup, replication, recovery, devices, security, and theory of data coding, densities, and low-power. Potential synergies among these fields are expected to open up new research directions.

The Transactions serves as a central, archival venue for the interdisciplinary storage research community. It covers research contributions that introduce new concepts, techniques, analyses, architectures, devices, as well as applied contributions that report on development of new tools and systems or experiences and experiments with high-impact, innovative applications.

Topics covered by TOS include:

• Storage Systems Architecture, Design, and Validation: parallel, distributed, peer-to-peer, and GRID storage systems, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Network-Attached Storage (NAS), performance evaluation and monitoring, predictive and adaptive techniques, support for multimedia computing applications, mass storage systems, formal and empirical validation methods.
• Storage Networking: Protocols for networked storage systems, storage switch and fabric design.
• Storage Resource Management: virtualization, management, discovery, provisioning of storage resources, security, reliability, scalability, policy-based management, object-based storage devices, and interoperability support for heterogeneity in systems, devices, and software.
• Replication, backup, and recovery: continuous backup methods, real-time and policy-based recovery, volume, file, and application-level recovery, disaster tolerance,
• Operating System and Application Support: Caching, file systems, interoperability, and design of application programming interfaces.
• Information Lifecycle Management (ILM): management of data based on configurable policies, processes and workflow for data storage, security, and storage middleware including data management systems
• Storage Media and Devices: optical, magnetic, acoustic, MEMS-based storage devices, MRAM, Bio/Nano-storage devices, device abstractions and I/O protocols.
• Theory: Algorithms for coding, and signal-processing techniques for high data rates, densities, and low-power.

The Transactions appear quarterly. Publication is expected to commence in the second half of 2004.

Type of Papers

TOS publishes original research papers and short technical notes, and tutorial and survey papers.

Prior Publication Policy

TOS accepts submissions of original technical contributions that neither have been published in archival publications nor are under consideration by another archival journal at the time of submission. In the case where a contribution has already been published by a refereed conference, publication in TOS is permitted only if the editor judges that the revision contains significant amplification or clarification of the original material, or there is a significant additional benefit to be gained from the journal publication. In either case, any prior publication should be noted on the title page of the submission.
 

Potential authors should consult the Information for Authors. Authors and readers are both encouraged to peruse the TOS World Wide Web (WWW) pages for related information, including current articles. These pages can be reached through the ACM WWW pages at http://www.acm.org/pubs/tos