Subject: IWQoS Call for Papers

From: "Edward W. Knightly" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 16:47:52 -0600

Below is the final CFP for IWQoS '98. The workshop's URL is 
     http://www-ece.rice.edu/conf/iwqos98/

Best regards,
-Ed Knightly (IWQoS '98 co-chair)

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                               CALL FOR PAPERS

                  Sixth IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on
                       Quality of Service (IWQoS '98)

                           -Napa, California USA -
                               May 18-20, 1998

                 Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society
              Technical Committees on Computer Communications, 
             Internet, Multimedia Communications, and Software

		  Technical co-sponsorship by IFIP WG6.1* 

                     In co-operation with ACM SIGCOMM 

              Patrons: Hewlett Packard and Nokia Corporation
			      *to be approved
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INVITED PROGRAM
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Keynote Address - Roch Guerin, IBM Research
Keynote Paper - Domenico Ferrari, Universita' Cattolica Piacenza, Italy 
Panel Chair - Hui Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
   "The Future of Differential and Integrated Services in the Internet" 
Panel Chair - Vaduvur Bharghavan, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
   "QoS in Wireless Networks: the Transition from Myth to Reality"

WORKSHOP SCOPE
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This is the sixth in a series of workshops aimed at providing an
international forum for the exchange of information on quality of
service (QoS) research in distributed and Internet systems. The
objective of the Sixth International Workshop on Quality of Service is
to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners working
in all facets of QoS research addressing distributed systems, Internet
services, multimedia, operating systems, networking, and middleware to
discuss recent results and future directions.

Contributions are solicited in all areas of QoS research in distributed
systems and networking, including, but not limited to:
- QoS Specification, Resource Allocation, (Re)negotiation, and Monitoring 
- QoS and the Internet 
- QoS Performance Modeling, Analysis and Evaluation 
- Adaptive Applications and Services 
- QoS Measurement, Management and Control 
- QoS Support for Mobility and Wireless Networks 
- Middleware Solutions for End-to-End QoS 
- Media Scaling and QoS Filtering Techniques 
- QoS Support for Information Appliances 
- Storage Systems/Database Support for QoS 
- Experimental Studies on QoS, including Human Perception 
- QoS Programmability, Languages and Formal Method Techniques 
- QoS Economics and Implications

WORKSHOP URL
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http://www-ece.rice.edu/conf/iwqos98

IMPORTANT DATES
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   * Submission of contribution: February 23, 1998
   * Notification of acceptance: April 6, 1998
   * Camera-ready paper due: April 13, 1998

PAPER SUBMISSION 
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Authors are invited to submit full papers and position statements for
review. Full papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages including
figures, tables, and references, using a typeface no smaller than 11
points. Position statements should not exceed 3 single-spaced
pages. To expedite the reviewing process, please submit the paper
electronically (in postscript format only, through e-mail) to
[email-masked]. All submissions must include name and
affiliation of the authors, a contact address of the main author, an
abstract, and keywords.

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
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Ed Knightly, Rice University
Rich Friedrich, Hewlett Packard Laboratories

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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Vaduvur Bharghavan, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA 
Gordon Blair, University of Lancaster, UK 
Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA 
Simon Crosby, Cambridge University, UK 
Jon Crowcroft, UCL, UK 
Hermann de Meer, University of Hamburg, Germany 
Jan de Meer, GMD Fokus, Germany 
Sudhir Dixit, Nokia Research, USA
Alexandros Eleftheriadis, Columbia University, USA 
Domenico Ferrari, Universita' Cattolica Piacenza, Italy 
Leonard Franken, KPN Research, The Netherlands 
Michael Fry, University of Technology, Australia 
Jean-Peirre Hubaux, EPFL, Switzerland 
Brigitte Kerherve, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada 
Glenford Mapp, Olivetti Research Ltd, UK 
Mahmoud Nagshineh, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA 
Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA 
Max Ott, C&C Research, NEC USA 
Guru Parulkar, Washington University, USA 
Steve Pink, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden 
Jerry Rolia, Carleton University, Canada 
Douglas Schmidt, Washington University, USA 
Chris Sluman, OpenIT Ltd, UK 
Cormac Sreenan, AT&T Research, USA 
Hideyuki Tokuda, Keio University, Japan 
James VanLoo, Sun Microsystems, USA 
Andreas Vogel, DSTC, Australia 
Lixia Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles, USA 
Hui Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA