[squid-users] WCW'01 Call for Participation

From: Duane Wessels <wessels@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 10:46:19 -0600 (MDT)

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  Sixth International Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution

                         Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
                                                      June 20-22, 2001

                                        http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/wcw01

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Overview
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The International Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution
(WCW) is a premiere technical meeting for researchers and
practitioners interested in all aspects of content caching,
distribution and delivery on the Internet. This year's meeting will be
held on the Boston University Campus and will build on the successes
of the five previous WCW meetings. We have assembled a strong program
consisting of eight technical sessions and three panels. Please refer
to the various sections of WCW'01 web site for more information.

WCW'01 is sponsored by Cisco Systems, Measurement Factory, and Volera.

Preliminary Program
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Wednesday June 20th

09:00 Welcome

09:15 Session 1: Content Delivery Networks I

      - "The Trickle-Down Effect: Web Caching and Server Request
        Distribution", Ronald P. Doyle, Jeffrey S. Chase, Syam Gadde,
        Amin M. Vahdat
      - "CDN Brokering", Alex Biliris, Chuck Cranor, Fred Douglis,
        Michael Rabinovich, Sandeep Sibal, Oliver Spatscheck, Walter
        Sturm
      - Synopsis: "Web Service Scalability and Performance with
        Optimising Intermediaries", Mark Nottingham

10:30 Morning Break

10:45 Session 2: Content Delivery Networks II

      - "Object Replication Strategies in Content Distribution
        Networks", Jussi Kangasharju, James Roberts, Keith W. Ross
      - "Topology-Informed Internet Replica Placement", Pavlin
        Radoslavov, Ramesh Govindan, Deborah Estrin
      - "A Novel Approach to Managing Consistency in Content
        Distribution Networks", Zongming Fei

12:15 Lunch

14:00 Panel 1: TBA

15:30 Afternoon Break

15:45 Session 3: Edge and Browser Services

      - "Content Services Network: the Architecture and Protocols",
        Wei-Ying Ma, Bo Shen, and Jack Brassil
      - "Enabling the Internet to Deliver Content-Oriented Services",
        Andre Beck, Markus Hofmann
      - Synopsis: "Evaluating Dynamic Deployment Mechanisms for
        Application Network Provisioning on the Internet", O. Ardaiz,
        F. Freitag, L. Navarro
      - Synopsis: "Expanding the Scope of Prefetching through
        Cross-Domain Cooperation", Amy S. Hughes and Joseph D. Touch

18:00 Dinner

Thursday June 21st

09:15 Session 4: Architectures 

      - "Instantaneous Offloading of Transient Web Server Load",
        Vsevolod V. Panteleenko and Vincent W. Freeh
      - "The Cyclone Server Architecture: Streamlining Delivery of
        Popular Content", Stanislav Rost, John Byers, Azer Bestavros
      - Synopsis: "MPLS-based Web Switching", Arup Acharya, Anees
        Shaikh, Renu Tewari, Dinesh Verma

10:30 Morning Break

10:45 Panel 2: TBA

12:15 Lunch

14:00 Session 5: Prefetching

      - "Provably Efficient Stream Merging", E.G. Coffman, Jr. Predrag
        Jelenkovic, Petar Momcilovic
      - "The potential costs and benefits of long-term prefetching for
        content distribution", Arun Venkataramani, Praveen
        Yalagandula, Ravi Kokku, Sadia Sharif, Mike Dahlin
      - "Assertion: Prefetching With GET is Not Good", Brian D.Davison

15:30 Afternoon Break

15:45 Panel 3: TBA

18:00 Dinner

Friday June 22nd

09:00 Session 6: Workload Characterization

      - "Thin-Client Web Access Patterns: Measurements from a
        Cache-Busting Proxy", Terence Kelly
      - "Analysis of Web Workloads Using the Bootstrap Methodology",
        Johnson Lee, William Miniscalco, Meng Li, W. David Shambroom,
        John Buford
      - "Analyzing the Impact of Robots on Performance of Web Caching
        Systems", V. Almeida, D. Menasce, R. Riedi, F. Peligrinelli,
        R. Fonseca, W. Meira Jr.

10:30 Morning Break

10:45 Session 7: Performance Measurement

      - "The Design and Evaluation of a Method for Measuring Web
        Performance", Richard Liston, Ellen Zegura
      - "The Medusa Proxy: A Tool For Exploring User-Perceived Web
        Performance", Mimika Koletsou, Geoffrey M. Voelker
      - "Comparative measurements of Internet traffic using
        cache-triangle", Serge A. Krashakov and Lev N. Shchur

12:15 Lunch

14:00 Session 8: Streaming Media Delivery

      - "Streaming media traffic: an empirical study", Dario
        Luparello, Sarit Mukherjee, Sanjoy Paul
      - "An Interactive Video Delivery and Caching System Using Video
        Summarization", Sung-Ju Lee, Wei-Ying Ma, and Bo Shen
      - "Joint Server Scheduling and Proxy Caching for Video
        Delivery", Olivier Verscheure, Chitra Venkatramani, Pascal
        Frossard and Lisa Amini

Registration Information
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Please complete the WCW'01 registration form (available from WCW'01
Web Site) and mail it along with applicable fees to:

  Ellen Grady (WCW'01)
  Computer Science Department
  Boston University
  111 Cummington street
  Boston, MA 02215

Early registration must be received by June 8th, 2001. Once we have
received your registration, we will acknowledge it via email.

Accommodation
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The Web Caching and Content Distribution Workshop will be held on the
Charles River Campus of Boston University. Boston is a very busy city,
especially in the summer! We recommend that you finalize your local
arrangements early. There are a number of options for accommodations
that the workshop was able to secure. Please check WCW'01 web pages
for details.

Workshop Organization
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Program Committee Chairs:

  + Azer Bestavros (CS Dept, Boston University)
  + Michael Rabinovich (AT&T Research)

Program Committee Members:

  + Virgilio Almeida (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
  + Chet Birger (Adero Inc)
  + John Byers (CS Dept, Boston University)
  + Jeff Chase (CS Dept, Duke University)
  + Mark Crovella (Network Appliance & CS Dept, Boston University)
  + Arun Iyengar (IBM TJ Watson Research Center)
  + Mike Dahlin (University of Texas, Austin)
  + Balachander Krishnamurthy (AT&T Research)
  + Steve McCanne (FastForward Networks)
  + Jeff Mogul (Compaq Western Research Lab)
  + Keith Ross (Eurocomm Institute)
  + Gary Tomlison (Entera Inc.)
  + Craig Wills (CS Dept, Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

Publication Chair:

  + Valentino Cavalli, Terena

Steering Committee:

  + Pei Cao, Cisco
  + Valentino Cavalli, Terena
  + Peter Danzig, Akamai Technologies
  + John Martin, Network Appliance
  + Wojtek Sylwestrzak, Warsaw University
  + Duane Wessels, NLANR

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    For updated information about the workshop please refer to the
        workshop's web page at http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/wcw01
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