Note: each talk is 15-min presentation plus 5-min discussion Research updates are 10-min brief description of results previously presented at other conferences.

8:30-9:20: Invited talk:

• From Javabean to Database -- Building Multi-Tier Systems from Object Web Servers, Geoffrey Fox (Syracuse University) html, postscript

9:30-10:50: Session 1 - Applications

• Predicting the QoS of an Electronic Commerce Server: Those Mean Percentiles (20 minutes) Diwakar Krishnamurthy, Jerome Rolia (Carleton University, Canada) html, postscript

• SWEB++: Partitioning and scheduling for adaptive client-server computing on WWW (20 minutes) Daniel Andresen (Kansas State University), Tao Yang (University of California, Santa Barbara) html , postscript

• Java in next-generation database systems (20 minutes) Praveen Seshadri (Cornell University) postscript

• Improving Secure Web Server Performance by Caching SSL Session Keys (20 minutes) Arthur Goldberg, Robert Buff, Andrew Schmitt (New York University) html , postscript

11:00-12:00: Session 2 - Servers

• httperf -- A tool for measuring web server performance (20 minutes) David Mosberger, Tai Jin (HP Labs) html , postscript

• Better operating system features for faster network servers (20 minutes) Gaurav Banga (Rice University), Peter Druschel (Rice University), Jeffrey C. Mogul (DEC Western Research Labs) html , postscript

• Multicast delivery of web pages OR how to make web servers pushy (20 minutes), Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Institute of Technology), Zongming Fei (Georgia Institute of Technology), Kevin C. Almeroth (University of California, Santa Barbara), Russ Clark (Empire Technologies, Inc) html , postscript

12:00-1:15 -- lunch

1:15-2:00: Panel Discussion: Research Issues in Web Server Performance

2:10-2:50: Session 3 - Quality-of-Service

• Providing differentiated levels of service in web content hosting (20 minutes) Jussara Almedia, Mihaela Dabu, Anand Manikntty, Pei Cao (University of Wisconsin-Madison) html , postscript

• Research update: Allocation of server resources in HTTP servers (10 minutes) Raju Pandey, J.Fritz Barnes, Ronald Olsson (University of California, Davis)

• Internet service performance failure detection (20 minutes) Amy Ward (Stanford University), Peter Glynn (Stanford University), Kathy Richardson (DEC Western Research Lab) html , postscript

• Web proxy caching: the devil is in the details (20 minutes) Ramon Caceres, Fred Douglis, Anja Feldmann, Gideon Glass, Michael Rabinovich (AT&T Labs-Research) html , postscript

• A new and efficient caching policy for the world wide web (20 minutes) Nicolas Niclausse, Zhen Liu, Philippe Nain (INRIA Centre Sophia Antipolis) html , postscript

• A taste of crispy squid (20 minutes) Syam Gadde (Duke University), Jeff Chase (Duke University), Michael Rabinovich (AT&T Labs-Research) html , postscript

• Selection algorithms for replicated web servers (20 minutes) Mehmet Sayal, Peter Scheuermann, Pradek Vingralek (Northwestern University) html , postscript

• Research update: Performance monitoring for dynamic server selection (10 minutes) Ellen Zegura, Mostafa H. Ammar, Zongming Fei, Samrat Bhattacharjee (Georgia Institute of Technology)

• Research update: WebWave: Globally load balanced fully distributed caching of hot published documents (10 minutes) Abdelsalam Heddaya, Sulaiman Mirdad (Boston University)

5:00-5:50: Panel Discussion: Research Issue in Proxy and Network Performance