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/WISP98.html

Important Dates:

UPDATED Papers due: March 9th by 12pm PST, 1998

Notification of acceptance: April 10th, 1998

Final versions of papers: May 18th, 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 papers 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 Labs -- 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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