CFP : International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems SPECTS 2004

CFP : International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems SPECTS 2004
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Dear All: Due to numerous requires, the organizing committee of SPECTS2004 has decided to extend the submission deadline to February 29, 2004. Enclosed below please find the CFP. Thanks. Guoping Zeng Vice Chair, Publicity Committee, SPECTS2004 ***************************************** (Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) SPECTS 2004 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems July 25-29, 2004 San Jose, California San Jose Hyatt Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International http://www.scs.org/confernc/ssimc/ssimc04/cfp/spects04.htm **************************************************************** SCOPE: ====== This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Evaluation of computer systems and networks is needed at every stage in the life cycle of the product including design, manufacturing, sales/purchase, use, upgrade, tuning, etc. The discipline of performance evaluation has progressed rapidly in the past decade, and it has now begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. The list of topics includes (but is not limited to): Networking and Telecommunication Systems - Internet Technology - Quality of Service (QoS) - DiffServ/IntServ - MPLS - TCP - World Wide Web (WWW) Technology - Networking Techniques - Unicast and Multicast Routing - Congestion Control - Switching Techniques - Tele-traffic - Network Protocols - Network Management and Control - Network Capacity Planning - Network Architecture Evaluation - Service and QoS Pricing - Security and Authentication - Broadband Networks - High-Speed Networking - ATM - Optical Networks - Wireless Systems and Networks - Satellite Systems - UMTS - Mobile Networks/Computing - Ad-hoc networks - Multimedia Communications and Applications Computer Systems - Distributed Architectures - Client/Server - Distributed Systems and Agents - Parallel and Distributed Computing - Massively Parallel Systems - Cluster Computing - Grid Computing - Interconnection Networks - Computer Architectures - Microprocessors/Microcomputers - Memory Systems - High Performance I/O - Real-time Systems - Scheduling Schemes - Software - Software Performance, Evaluation and Testing - Parallel Algorithms and Languages - Hardware and Software Monitors - High-Performance Computing - Workload and Traffic Characterization - Scientific Computing Algorithms - Reconfigurable Computing - Electronic Commerce Tools, Methodologies and Applications - Parallel and Distributed Simulation - Verification and Validation - Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications - Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models - Queuing Systems and Networks - Scalability Studies - Integrated Modeling and Measurement - On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning - Process Algebra-Based Models - Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance - Case Studies General Chair Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA obaidat@monmouth.edu Vice General Chair Franco Davoli, DIST-University of Genoa, Italy franco@dist.unige.it Program Chair Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia a.jamalipour@ieee.org Vice Program Chair and Special Sessions Chair: Jose L Marzo, University of Girona, Spain joseluis.marzo@udg.es Vice Program Chair and Tutorial Chair: Mario Marchese, CNIT, Italy mario.marchese@cnit.it Vice Program Chair and Publicity Chair: Imad Mahgoub, Florida Atlantic University imad@cse.fau.edu Industrial Track and Special Sessions Chair: J. Fox, Motorola Inc., UK fox.ijcs@btinternet.com Publicity Committee: Chair, Imad Mahgoub, Florida Atlantic University, USA. E-mail:imad@cse.fau.edu Vice Chair: Guoping Zeng, University of Texas at Dallas, E-mail: gzeng@utdallas.edu Sami Habib, Kuwait University, shabib@cairo.eng.kuniv.edu.kw Web Master: Michael J. Chinni, U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC\, Email: mchinni@pica.army.mil Technical Program Committee Abdullah Abonamah, Zayed University, UAE Krishan Aggrawal, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Tech., USA Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Bruno Baynat, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France Louis G. Birta, University of Ottawa, Canada Noureddine Boudriga, University of Tunis, Tunisia Maria C. Carzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy Hasan Cam, Arizona State University, USA Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA Nedo Celandroni, ISTI-CNR, Italy Haitham Cruickshank, University of Surrey, UK Hassan B. Diab, American University of Beirut, Lebanon Arek Dadej, University of South Australia, Australia Gabor Fodor, Ericsson Radio Systems, Sweden Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA John Fox, Motorola Inc., UK Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Sebastia Galmes, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Aura Ganz, University of Massachusetts, USA Carlos Juiz, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Erol Gelenbe, University of Central Florida, USA Nicolas Georganas, University of Ottawa, Canada Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Sami Habib, Kuwait University, Kuwait Omar Hammami, ENSTA, France Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Herman Hughes, Michigan State University, USA Andrzej Jajszczyk, AGM University of Science and Technology, Poland Ingemar Kaj, Uppsala University, Sweden Krishna Kant, Intel, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessalonica, Greece Demetrios Kazakos, University of Louisiana, USA Ulrich Killat, Tech Univ. of Hamburg, Germany Tag Gon Kim, KAIST, Korea Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Veronica Lagrange M. Reis, HP Corp., USA Axel Lehmann, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany Daniel C. Lee, USC, USA Mike T. Liu, Ohio State University, USA Pascal Lorenz, Universite de Haute Alsace, France Erich Lutz, DLR, Germany Sam Makki, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Krzysztof Malinowski, Warsaw Technical University, Poland Mark Malowidzki, Military Communication Institute, Poland Xiannong Meng, Bucknell University, USA Vojislav Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Hussein Mouftah, Queen's University, Canada Ibrahim Onyuksel, Northern Illinois University, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Elena Pagani, Universit?di Milano, Italy Sergio Palazzo, Universit?di Catania, Italy Georgios I. Papadimitriou, Aristotle University, Greece Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Gregory D. Peterson, University of Tennessee Steven Pink, University of Arizona, USA George Polyzos, AUEB, Greece Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Kaliappa Ravindran, CUNY, USA Gian Paolo Rossi, Universit?di Milano, Italy Izhak Rubin, UCLA, USA Vicente Santonja, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Donald Schilling, CUNY, USA Jens B. Schmitt, TU Darmstadt, Germany Harald Skinnemoen, Nera, Norway Tatsuya Suda, UCI, USA Alexander Thomasian, NJIT, USA Iwao Toda, Fujutsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA Tracy Tung, University of Sydney, Australia Kenneth S. Vastola, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica, Spain Bernd E. Wolfinger, Hamburg University, Germany Michele Zorzi, Universit?di Ferrara, Italy Paper Submission Submit your complete papers electronically to: http://scs.proceedingscentral.com/ All required instructions will be posted on this web site. Submissions should not exceed 25 double-spaced, 8.5x11 inch pages (including figures,tables, and references) in 10-12 point font. Include five to ten keywords, complete postal and e-mail addresses, and fax and phone numbers of corresponding author. If you have difficulty in electronic submission, contact the Web Master, Program Chairs or the Conference Coordinator, Mr. Steve Branch, The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 4838 Ronson Court, Suite L, San Diego, CA 92111, USA, Tel 858-277-3888, Fax 858-277-3930, E-mail sbranch@scs.org. Extended versions of selected accepted papers in SPECTS 2004 will be considered for possible publication in scholarly journals. Proposals for tutorials should be sent to the Conference Vice Program Chair, Mario Marchese. Proposals for special sessions and panel sessions should be submitted to the special Sessions Chair. For more information regarding presentations or exhibitions at SPECTS 2004 contact: Mr. Steve Branch at the address shown above. Workshop on Performance of High Performance Parallel and Distributed systems (part of SPECTS2004) To submit papers to the workshop and for more info, contact Geoffrey Fox at: gcf@grids.ucs.indiana.edu, Tel: 315-254-6387 or 812-856-7977, Fax: 812-856-7972

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Dear All:

Due to numerous requires, the organizing committee of SPECTS2004 has
decided to extend the submission deadline to February 29, 2004. Enclosed 
below please find the CFP. Thanks.

Guoping Zeng
Vice Chair, Publicity Committee, SPECTS2004
*******************************************

(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP)

                               SPECTS 2004

    International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and
                       Telecommunication Systems

                            July 25-29, 2004
                          San Jose, California
                             San Jose Hyatt

            Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and
                       Simulation International

        http://www.scs.org/confernc/ssimc/ssimc04/cfp/spects04.htm
******************************************************************

SCOPE:
======
This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in 
performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Evaluation of 
computer systems and networks is needed at every stage in the life cycle of the 
product including design, manufacturing, sales/purchase, use, upgrade, tuning, 
etc. The discipline of performance evaluation has progressed rapidly in the past decade, and it has now begun to approach maturity. Significant progress 
has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for 
performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. The list of 
topics includes (but is not limited to):

Networking and Telecommunication Systems
- Internet Technology
- Quality of Service (QoS)
- DiffServ/IntServ
- MPLS
- TCP
- World Wide Web (WWW) Technology
- Networking Techniques
- Unicast and Multicast Routing
- Congestion Control
- Switching Techniques
- Tele-traffic
- Network Protocols
- Network Management and Control
- Network Capacity Planning
- Network Architecture Evaluation
- Service and QoS Pricing
- Security and Authentication
- Broadband Networks
- High-Speed Networking
- ATM
- Optical Networks
- Wireless Systems and Networks
- Satellite Systems
- UMTS
- Mobile Networks/Computing
- Ad-hoc networks
- Multimedia Communications and Applications

Computer Systems
- Distributed Architectures
- Client/Server
- Distributed Systems and Agents
- Parallel and Distributed Computing
- Massively Parallel Systems
- Cluster Computing
- Grid Computing
- Interconnection Networks
- Computer Architectures
- Microprocessors/Microcomputers
- Memory Systems
- High Performance I/O
- Real-time Systems
- Scheduling Schemes
- Software
- Software Performance, Evaluation and Testing
- Parallel Algorithms and Languages
- Hardware and Software Monitors
- High-Performance Computing
- Workload and Traffic Characterization
- Scientific Computing Algorithms
- Reconfigurable Computing
- Electronic Commerce

Tools, Methodologies and Applications
- Parallel and Distributed Simulation
- Verification and Validation
- Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications
- Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models
- Queuing Systems and Networks
- Scalability Studies
- Integrated Modeling and Measurement
- On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning
- Process Algebra-Based Models
- Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance
- Case Studies

General Chair
Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA
obaidat@monmouth.edu
Vice General Chair
Franco Davoli, DIST-University of Genoa, Italy
franco@dist.unige.it
Program Chair
Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia
a.jamalipour@ieee.org
Vice Program Chair and Special Sessions Chair:
Jose L Marzo, University of Girona, Spain
joseluis.marzo@udg.es
Vice Program Chair and Tutorial Chair:
Mario Marchese, CNIT, Italy
mario.marchese@cnit.it
Vice Program Chair and Publicity Chair:
Imad Mahgoub, Florida Atlantic University
imad@cse.fau.edu
Industrial Track and Special Sessions Chair:
J. Fox, Motorola Inc., UK
fox.ijcs@btinternet.com

Publicity Committee:
Chair, Imad Mahgoub, Florida Atlantic University, USA. E-mail:imad@cse.fau.edu
Vice Chair: Guoping Zeng, University of Texas at Dallas, E-mail: 
gzeng@utdallas.edu
Sami Habib, Kuwait University, shabib@cairo.eng.kuniv.edu.kw
Web Master:
Michael J. Chinni, U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC\, Email: mchinni@pica.army.mil

Technical Program Committee
Abdullah Abonamah, Zayed University, UAE
Krishan Aggrawal, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India
Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Tech., USA
Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA
Bruno Baynat, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Louis G. Birta, University of Ottawa, Canada
Noureddine Boudriga, University of Tunis, Tunisia
Maria C. Carzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy
Hasan Cam, Arizona State University, USA
Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA
Nedo Celandroni, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Haitham Cruickshank, University of Surrey, UK
Hassan B. Diab, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Arek Dadej, University of South Australia, Australia
Gabor Fodor, Ericsson Radio Systems, Sweden
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
John Fox, Motorola Inc., UK
Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Sebastia Galmes, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Aura Ganz, University of Massachusetts, USA
Carlos Juiz, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Erol Gelenbe, University of Central Florida, USA
Nicolas Georganas, University of Ottawa, Canada
Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA
Sami Habib, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Omar Hammami, ENSTA, France
Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Herman Hughes, Michigan State University, USA
Andrzej Jajszczyk, AGM University of Science and Technology, Poland
Ingemar Kaj, Uppsala University, Sweden
Krishna Kant, Intel, USA
Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessalonica, Greece
Demetrios Kazakos, University of Louisiana, USA
Ulrich Killat, Tech Univ. of Hamburg, Germany
Tag Gon Kim, KAIST, Korea
Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Veronica Lagrange M. Reis, HP Corp., USA
Axel Lehmann, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
Daniel C. Lee, USC, USA
Mike T. Liu, Ohio State University, USA

Pascal Lorenz, Universite de Haute Alsace, France
Erich Lutz, DLR, Germany
Sam Makki, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Krzysztof Malinowski, Warsaw Technical University, Poland
Mark Malowidzki, Military Communication Institute, Poland
Xiannong Meng, Bucknell University, USA
Vojislav Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada
Hussein Mouftah, Queen's University, Canada
Ibrahim Onyuksel, Northern Illinois University, USA
Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK
Elena Pagani, Universit?di Milano, Italy
Sergio Palazzo, Universit?di Catania, Italy
Georgios I. Papadimitriou, Aristotle University, Greece
Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Gregory D. Peterson, University of Tennessee
Steven Pink, University of Arizona, USA
George Polyzos, AUEB, Greece
Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Kaliappa Ravindran, CUNY, USA
Gian Paolo Rossi, Universit?di Milano, Italy
Izhak Rubin, UCLA, USA

Vicente Santonja, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Donald Schilling, CUNY, USA
Jens B. Schmitt, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Harald Skinnemoen, Nera, Norway
Tatsuya Suda, UCI, USA
Alexander Thomasian, NJIT, USA
Iwao Toda, Fujutsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan
Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA
Tracy Tung, University of Sydney, Australia
Kenneth S. Vastola, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica, Spain
Bernd E. Wolfinger, Hamburg University, Germany
Michele Zorzi, Universit?di Ferrara, Italy

Paper Submission
Submit your complete papers electronically to: 
http://scs.proceedingscentral.com/ All required instructions will be
posted on this web site. Submissions should not exceed 25 double-spaced, 8.5x11 
inch pages (including figures,tables, and references) in 10-12 point font. 
Include five to ten keywords, complete postal and e-mail addresses, and fax and 
phone numbers of corresponding author. If you have difficulty in electronic 
submission, contact the Web Master, Program Chairs or the Conference 
Coordinator, Mr. Steve Branch, The Society for Modeling and
Simulation International, 4838 Ronson Court, Suite L, San Diego, CA 92111, USA, 
Tel 858-277-3888, Fax 858-277-3930, E-mail sbranch@scs.org. Extended versions of selected accepted papers in SPECTS 2004 will be considered for possible 
publication in scholarly journals. 

Proposals for tutorials should be sent to the Conference Vice Program Chair, 
Mario Marchese. Proposals for special sessions and panel sessions should be 
submitted to the special Sessions Chair. 

For more information regarding presentations or exhibitions at SPECTS 2004 
contact:
Mr. Steve Branch at the address shown above.
Workshop on Performance of High Performance Parallel and Distributed systems 
(part of SPECTS2004)

To submit papers to the workshop and for more info, contact Geoffrey Fox at: 
gcf@grids.ucs.indiana.edu, Tel:
315-254-6387 or 812-856-7977, Fax: 812-856-7972