Papers submitted to OSS 2012 must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere while under consideration for OSS 2012. All papers must conform, at time of submission, to the Springer Formatting Guidelines. Please use the following templates and instructions. Submissions must be in PDF format.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed double blinded, therefore please remove any information that could give an indication of the authorship. All submission deadlines are 23:59:59 UTC/GMT - 11 hours (= Pago Pago, American Samoa time).