[squid-users] CFP: 8th International Web Content Caching and Distribution Workshop

                           CALL FOR PAPERS

          Global Perspective: 8th International Workshop on
              Web Content Caching and Distribution (WCW)

                            Beijing, China
                    30 September - 2 October, 2003
                        http://2003.iwcw.org/

  Submission deadline: May 22, 2003
  Extended deadline: May 29, 2003

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Overview
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Since 1996, this workshop has served as the premiere forum for
researchers and industry technologists to exchange research results
and perspectives on future directions in Internet content caching and
content delivery. The first four Web Caching Workshops (WCW) focused
on Web cache software and caching networks for static Web content.
The scope broadened to encompass content distribution and eventually
all areas relating to the intersection of storage and networking for
Internet content services, including such areas as storage for grid
computing and peer-to-peer storage services.

In other words, the name of the workshop has stayed relatively
constant, but the topics included in it will, as always, cover the
newest and most interesting areas relating to data as it moves about
the Internet. This year we are especially interested in issues of
massive scale: the impact of geography on caching and replication; the
role of caching and data transfer in Internet-wide grid computing;
global peer-to-peer file transfer and storage; and other topics
consistent with the history of the workshop and the evolution of web
caching and content delivery.

Call for Papers
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The workshop solicits technical papers related to Internet content
caching and replication, content delivery, and content services
networking. Particular areas of interest include, but are not
limited to:

  + Caching and edge services for the wireless Web
  + Caching and replication for grid computing
  + Consistency management
  + Content placement and request routing
  + Edge services and dynamic content caching
  + Empirical studies of deployed content delivery systems
  + Geographical influences on caching and replication
  + In-stream content modification (e.g., transcoding, pluggable services)
  + Internet caching architecture and protocols
  + Memory and storage management for content caches
  + Overlay networks for content delivery
  + Peer-to-peer caching and content delivery
  + Peering and content services internetworking
  + Security and availability of Web service architectures
  + Streaming media caching
  + Web workload analysis and characterization
  + Wide-area upload and "content gathering"

General Chairs
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Chi Hung Chi, National University of Singapore
Lam Kwok Yan, Tsinghua University

Program Chair
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Fred Douglis, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Program Committee
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Martin Arlitt, University of Calgary
Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin
Chi Hung Chi, National University of Singapore
Mike Dahlin, University of Texas at Austin
Fred Douglis, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Zongming Fei, University of Kentucky
Leana Golubchik, University of Southern California
Li Gong, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Jaeyeon Jung, MIT LCS
Dan Li, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Guillaume Pierre, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Weisong Shi, Wayne State University
Oliver Spatscheck, AT&T Labs -- Research
Renu Tewari, IBM Almaden Research Center
Amin Vahdat, Duke University
Geoff Voelker, University of California, San Diego
Zhen Xiao, AT&T Labs -- Research

Steering Committee
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Azer Bestavros, Boston University
Pei Cao, Cisco
Jeff Chase, Duke University
Valentino Cavalli, Terena
Peter Danzig, University of Southern California
John Martin, Network Appliance
Michael Rabinovich, AT&T Labs -- Research
Wojtek Sylwestrzak, Warsaw University
Duane Wessels, The Measurement Factory

Guidelines
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Technical Papers and Synopses

Technical papers describe previously unpublished research results or
empirical evaluations of current systems. Synopses are summaries of
interesting new problems or approaches, or of standards or development
efforts in progress. Technical papers are limited to 5000 words;
synopses are limited to 3000 words. The Program Committee will judge
submitted papers on relevance, significance, originality, clarity, and
technical merit. We encourage authors to submit any technically sound
contributions of interest. Please do not submit product marketing
material or material that is previously published or under review
elsewhere.

Accepted papers will be published in a proceedings distributed to
participants and made available on the Web. We anticipate that the
proceedings will also be published as a journal issue, as was done in
2001, but that is still under negotiation. Authors of accepted papers
will present their work in 15-minute or 25-minute talks at the
workshop, for synopses and technical papers respectively.

Please submit technical papers and synopses in PDF format through
the submission form on the conference Website.

Proposals for Panels

WCW panels bring together researchers from industry and academia.
These panels are an important element of WCW. Please send panel
proposals in plain text by e-mail to the Program Chair
(douglis@acm.org).

Important Dates
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2003/05/22: Nominal deadline for submissions
2003/05/29: Extended deadline: submissions due at 1700 PDT
2003/07/24: Acceptance notification
2003/08/28: Camera-ready papers due
Received on Thu Feb 27 2003 - 14:01:02 MST