[Fwd: CFP for the Workshop on Internet Performance.]

[Igor Tatarinov <ta...@prairie.NoDak.edu>]

Just thought some guys may be interested.
The Web page isn't there yet :(
igor

Duane Wessels wrote:
> 
> 
>                             CALL FOR PAPERS
> 
>                  Workshop on Internet Server Performance
>                     to be held in conjunction with
>                                  SIGMETRICS'98
>                  Wisconsin, Madison; Date: June 23, 1998.
> 
>                   http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~cao/WISP.html
> 
> Important Dates:
> Papers due: March 1st, 1998
> Notification of acceptance: April 10th, 1998
> Final versions of papers: May 10th, 1998
> 
> Today, Web servers are not simple HTTP servers.  A typical Internet site
> employs a web server complex, which may include HTTP servers,  database
> servers, transaction servers, multimedia servers, advertisement servers
> and proxy servers. The performance of the server system as a whole depends
> not only on individual server performance, but also the protocols and
> interactions between servers. This workshop seeks to bring together
> researchers and developers from systems, databases, networking, multimedia
> and other disciplines to discuss the wide range of issues that impact server
> performance on the Internet.
> 
> The workshop program will include invited presentations and selected position
> papers solicited through this call for papers. Submissions will be organized
> in on-line proceedings. In addition, selected papers will be published in
> Performance Evaluation Review. Final versions of the paper will also be
> distributed to workshop participants in a proceedings volume.
> 
> Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:
>     * Web enabled high-performance database access
>     * Multimedia streaming over the web
>     * High-performance electroniccommerce applications
>     * High-performance computing over the web
>     * Proxy server performance
>     * Capacity planning, load balancing, fault tolerance and Quality of Service
>     * Performance measurement and monitoring tools and technologies
> 
> Position papers not exceeding 3000 words (excluding figures and references)
> are solicited.  We encourage submissions from both practitioners and
> researchers. Papers describing work-in-progress and research in early stages
> are welcome. To submit, please send papers, preferably by email (in HTML, PDF,
>  or postscript format) to one of the workshop co-chairs by March 1st, 1998.
> Hardcopy submissions must include four copies.
> 
> Pei Cao                                  Sekhar Sarukkai
> 1210 West Dayton Street                  1U13, Hewlett Packard Labs,
> U. of Wisconsin, Madison                 1501 Page Mill Road,
> WI 53706-1685                            CA 94304-1126
> email: cao@cs.wisc.edu                   email: sekhar@hpl.hp.com
> Phone: 608-262-1204                      Phone: 415-857-4366
> Fax:    608-262-9777                     Fax:     415-813-3381
> 
> Program Committee
> Fred Douglis, AT&T research
> Peter Druschel, Rice University
> Geoffery Fox, Syracuse University
> Mike Franklin, University of Maryland
> Dennis Gannon, Indiana University
> Jeff Naughton, University of Wisconsin
> Praveen Seshadri, Cornell University
> Duane Wessels, National Lab for Applied Networking Research
> Philip Yu, IBM Watson research

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Igor Tatarinov, graduate student, Computer Science Dept, NDSU
e-mail: tatarino@prairie.nodak.edu   or   itat@acm.org
http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~tatarino
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