CALL FOR PAPERS: WISP 99

Second Workshop on Internet Server Performance
in conjunction with ACM SIGMETRICS 99/FCRC
Atlanta, GA, May 1st, 1999

WWW servers have become the primary point-of-presence for information dissemination and retrieval over both the wide-area Internet and within institutional Intranets. WWW servers are now ubiqutious front ends for both traditional content such as text, video, and audio, as well as remote execution services, such as online purchasing and database queries. In all these scenarios, server performance is a central issue in providing ubiquitous, reliable, and efficient information access.

The second Workshop on Internet Server Performance (WISP 99) seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners of this interdisciplinary area to exchange ideas and experiences. WISP 99 encourages submissions describing promising work in progress and well-founded position papers concerning WWW server performance. Papers on experimental systems and results are especially encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Server Architecture and Implementation
Proxy Server Performance
Server Support for Continuous Media
Server-Database Integration
Electronic Commerce
Dynamic Content
Server Quality of Service/Differentiated Services
Workload Characterization
Performance Measurement and Monitoring Tools
SMP's, Clusters, and Load Balancing

Submission Instructions

Works in progress and position papers not exceeding 3000 words (excluding figures and references) are solicited. Submissions will only be accepted electronically via email, in either postscript, PDF, word, or HTML formats. Send submissions by February 15th, 1999 to one of the workshop co-chairs:

Erich Nahum
IBM T.J. Watson Research
30 Saw Mill River Road
Hawthorne, NY 10532
Voice: 914-784-7319
nahum@watson.ibm.com
 Ellen Zegura
College of Computing, 801 Atlantic Drive
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280
Voice: 404-894-1403
ewz@cc.gatech.edu

General Chair: Sekhar Sarukkai (HP Labs)

This CFP and other information may be found at:

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Ellen.Zegura/WISP99.html

Important Deadlines:

Submitted Manuscripts:
Acceptance Notification:
Camera Ready Manuscripts:
 Mar. 1st, 1999
Apr. 1st, 1999
Apr. 23rd, 1999

Program Committee:

Swarup Acharya
Peter Danzig
Fred Douglis
Peter Druschel
Greg Ganger
Arun Iyengar
Kevin Jeffay
Erich Nahum
Michael Rabinovich
Sekhar Sarukkai
Prashant Shenoy
Ellen Zegura
 Lucent Bell Laboratories
Network Appliance
AT&T Labs--Research
Rice University
Carnegie Mellon University
IBM T.J. Watson
Univ. North Carolina
IBM T.J. Watson
AT&T Labs--Research
HP Labs
Univ. Massachusetts
Georgia Tech

This workshop is sponsored by ACM and ACM SIGMETRICS.