CFP: PERFORMANCE AND ARCHITECTURE OF WEB SERVERS (June 16-17, 2001, Cambridge, MA)

["K. Pawlikowski" <krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>]

	P R E L I M I N A R Y   C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S

	    PERFORMANCE AND ARCHITECTURE OF WEB SERVERS (PAWS)

		  June 16-17, 2001, Cambridge, MA
	    (Held in conjunction with ACM SIGMETRICS 2001)


Topics of interest include but not limited to:

   Architecture, O/S and scalability issues for web servers
   Server workload characterization and engineering
   Quality of service and load management in the web servers
   Server and gateway issues in wireless web access
   Issues in distributed content hosting (peer-to-peer services)
   Novel techniques for dealing with increasing dynamic and multimedia
content

Papers will be due on or before April 09, 2001, with acceptance
   notification by May 21, 2001.  All papers will be peer reviewed and
   published in a special issue of ACM Sigmetrics newsletter
``Performance
   Evaluation''.

Program Chairs:
   Krishna Kant, Intel Corporation, Beaverton, OR.
   Prasant Mohapatra, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI.

Further details on PAWS'2001 will be posted to the PAWS web site:
http:://kkant.ccwebhost.com/PAWS
This page also contains links to PAWS'2000 material.
To members of COSC/EEE research group on networks, 
COSC/Management/Maths research group on stochastic simulation, 
and anybody else interested in research in these areas

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		Associate Professor  Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
fax. +(64) 3 3642 569      URL:     http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~krys

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