1999 Web Caching Workshop -- Call For Papers

                   Fourth International Web Caching Workshop

                             San Diego, California
                             March 31-April 2, 1999

                  Invitation and Preliminary "Call for Papers"

URL: http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Workshop99/

        This is the fourth year for the Web Caching Workshop. Not
        unlike the Internet itself, interest and participation in the
        Caching Workshops has doubled every year since the first was
        held in 1996. The 1999 workshop is being organized by NLANR[1]
        and CAIDA[2], and will be held at the Univerisity of California
        in San Diego.

        All submitted papers will be formally refereed by a program
        committee. The selected papers will be published in the
        workshop proceedings, and the authors will be invited to make a
        20-minute presentation of their work. Papers which are not
        selected for publication may be invited for presentation as
        posters or as "works in progress."

SUBJECT AREAS FOR THE WORKSHOP

        Papers are invited on all matters related to caching. The
        particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

            * Legal, social, and economic issues.
            * Inter-cache communication techniques and protocols.
            * Tools and techniques for analyzing and improving cache
              performance.
            * Experiences in implementing caches on local, regional, or
              a national scale.
            * Algorithms for reducing end-user latencies; e.g. prefetching.
            * Caching software.
            * Caching hardware.
            * Benefits of caching, user experiences, views, requirements etc.

INFORMATION FOR PAPER SUBMISSION

        Full papers, limited to 5000 words, are to be submitted by
        January 15, 1999. All papers must be written in English.
        Submitted papers must not have been previously submitted or
        published elsewhere. Papers must be submitted electroncially,
        in Postscript "US-Letter" format. Please see the Workshop URL
        for specific submission instructions.

EXHIBITION & DEMONSTRATION FACILITIES

        An exhibition area will be available for demonstrations and for
        companies sponsoring the workshop.

WORKSHOP LOCATION & ACCOMODATIONS

        The workshop will be held at the Institute of the Americas, on
        the University of California San Diego campus. We have
        reserved a number of rooms for workshop attendees in area
        hotels. See the Workshop URL for details.

ATTENDANCE

        Attendance will be limited to approximately 250 attendees. If
        you would like to attend without submitting a paper, please
        send us a brief note with your interests and/or background to
        wcw99@ircache.net by the paper submission date.

IMPORTANT DATES

        Jan 15 - Paper submissions due
        Feb 15 - Notification of accepted papers
        Feb 28 - Hotel reservation deadlines
        Mar 15 - Registration cutoff
        Mar 31-Apr 2 - Workshop

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

        Pei Cao, University of Wisconsin (co-chair)
        John Martin, TERENA (co-chair)

        Peter Danzig, Network Appliance
        Fred Douglis, AT&T Laboratories
        Barry Greene, Cisco Systems
        Christian Grimm, German Research Network
        Martin Hamilton, Loughborough University, UK
        Jaeyeon Jung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
        Wagner Meira, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
        Ingrid Melve, Uninett, Norway
        George Michaelson, Distributed Systems Technology Center, Australia
        Misha Rabinovich, AT&T Laboratories
        Kathy Richardson, Compaq
        Wayne Salamonsen, National University of Singapore
        Wojtek Sylwestrzak, Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and
                Computational Modelling, Poland
        Lixia Zhang, University of California Los Angeles

CONTACTS & INFORMATION

        Local Organization: Duane Wessels <wessels@ircache.net>
                            Amy Blanchard <amy@caida.org> +1 619-534-8338

        Email: wcw99@ircache.net general questions
                wcw99-pc@ircache.net program committee

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[1] NLANR--the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research--is a
    loose collaboration of networking researchers in the United States
    who are primarily based at the supercomputing centers. NLANR receives
    funding from the National Science Foundation. http://www.nlanr.net/

[2] CAIDA--the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis--is
    a not-for-profit spin-off of NLANR. CAIDA is based at the University
    of California, San Diego. CAIDA receives funding from the National
    Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency,
    and a number of croporations. http://www.caida.org/

Duane W.
Received on Sat Nov 07 1998 - 09:51:34 MST