CFP, IEEE Transactions on Computers: special issue on QoS Issues in Internet Web Services

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

		     IEEE Transactions on Computers
			    Call for Papers

			    Special Issue on
	   Quality of Service Issues in Internet Web Services
		http://computer.org/tc/tc2000/t6toc.htm


Original manuscripts are sought for a special issue of IEEE Transactions
on Computers devoted to quality of service issues in Internet Web
services. The special issue is scheduled for March 2002.  Topics of
interest include, but not limited to, the following:

- Cache/proxy architectures and performance;
- Prefetching strategies and analysis;
- Replication-based Web architectures and protocols;
- Integrated caching and replication strategies;
- Techniques for low bandwidth links and/or mobile devices;
- Trade-off between caching/prefetching and replication;
- End-to-end performance evaluation of caching and replication;
- Caching and delivery of streaming media content;
- Load balancing and workload partitioning;
- Measurement studies of Web cache architectures;
- Dependable Web services;
- Data consistency strategies for Web services.


Manuscripts should be submitted electronically (in postscript format) or
in hard copy form (six copies) to Mohan Kumar (after 1 January 2001,
please submit to Dr. Kumar at the University of Texas at Arlington,
e-mail kumar@cse.uta.edu) no later than 15 January 2001. In addition, a
signed IEEE copyright transfer form should be mailed to Dr. Kumar. All
papers must conform to the usual IEEE-TC submission requirements with
total length, including figures and tables, not to exceed 35
double-spaced pages (see "Information for Authors" on the inside back
cover of this issue or go to the Computer Society website at
http://www.computer.org/tc/edguide.htm).
Papers should be of high quality. Submitted manuscripts must not have
been previously published or currently submitted for
publication elsewhere.


			    IMPORTANT DATES
		    Paper Deadline: 15 January 2001
		    Acceptance Notice: 15 July 2001
		   Final Manuscript: 15 October 2001
		      Publication Date: March 2002


Guest Editors

   Marco Conti
	Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
	Instituto CNUCE
	Via V. Alfieri, 1
	56010 Ghezzano, Pisa, ITALY
	Telephone: +39 050 315 3062
	E-mail: marco.conti@cnuce.cnr.it
	
   Mohan Kumar
 	School of Computing
 	Curtin Univ. of Technology
 	GPO Box U 1987
 	Perth WA 6845, AUSTRALIA
 	Telephone: +61 8 9266 3014
 	E-mail: kumar@cs.curtin.edu.au
 	
   Sajal K. Das
 	CReWMaN
 	Dept. of Computer Science and Eng.
 	Univ. of Texas at Arlington
 	Arlington, TX 76019-0015
 	Telephone: 817/272-7405
 	E-mail: das@cse.uta.edu
 	
   Behrooz A. Shirazi
	Dept. of Computer Science & Eng.
 	Univ. of Texas at Arlington
 	Arlington, TX 76019-0015
 	Telephone: 817/272-3605
 	E-mail: shirazi@cse.uta.edu
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This message is forwarded to members of the COSC/EEE/Management research 
group on networks at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 
New zealand, and anybody else interested in research in this area

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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 
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