*CALL FOR PAPERS*
		
			EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
			on QUALITY of SERVICE (IWQoS)
			 
			 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~iwqos/

				June 5-7, 2000
			   Westin William Penn Hotel
				Pittsburgh, PA
SPONSORS:
    - IEEE Communications Society and IFIP WG6.1
    - In Association with ACM SIGCOMM

WORKSHOP THEME:

This is the eighth of a series of workshops providing an international forum
for the exchange of information on quality of service (QoS) research in all 
the facets of QoS in a networked or distributed environment, including 
architectures, services, multimedia, operating systems and middleware. The 
objective of the Eighth International Workshop on Quality of Service is to 
bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners working in all 
these areas to discuss recent innovative results and future directions.
Besides soliciting contributions in all areas of QoS research in distributed 
systems and networking, we would like to place special emphasis this year on 
papers reporting experience in developing and using applications that use 
QoS-enabled systems. 

TOPICS (included, but are 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 
   *  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 

In the past the workshop has been cross-disciplinary, small and well focused,
with the emphasis on innovation. As a result, a considerable amount of time 
is devoted to informal discussion. The programs of the previous workshops is 
available online. 

			*IMPORTANT DATES:*		

		*  Paper deadline: February 21, 2000
		*  Notification: April 3, 2000
		*  Final papers due: April 21 
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CO-CHAIRS:
Peter Steenkiste and Hui Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University 

IWQoS STEERING COMMITTEE:

Andrew Campbell, Columbia University
Jon Crowcroft, UCL, London
Jan de Meer, GMD-FOKUS
Rich Friedrich, HP labs
Edward Knightly, Rice University
Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Nina Bhatti, HP Labs
Ernst Biersack, Eurecom, France
Gordon Blair, University of Lancaster, UK
Jose Brustoloni, Bell Labs
Bruce Davies, Cisco
Hermann de Meer, University of Hamburg, Germany
Christopher Diot, Sprint Labs
Matthias Grossglauser, AT&T Research
Jorg Liebeherr, University of Virginia
Steve Low, University of Melbourne, Australia
Songwu Lu, UCLA
Qingming Ma, Cisco
Bernard Plattner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Ralph Steinmetz, University of Darmstadt, Germany
Steve Weinstein, NEC
Thomas Woo, Bell labs
John Wroclawski, MIT
Geoff Xie, Naval Postgraduate School
Lixia Zhang, UCLA
Gisli Hjalmtysson, AT&T Research


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