Call for Papers
              IEEE Internet Computing

                 Special Issue on
    Application-Level QoS for Distributed Applications

                  May/June 2006


Guest editors:
Daniel A. Menascé (George Mason University) and
C. Murray Woodside (Carleton University)

Many distributed computer systems fail or come in late because they can’t
meet quality-of-service (QoS) goals. Discovering a serious shortfall during
load testing just prior to deployment can be disastrous. Many also
erroneously believe that QoS problems are easy to solve through hardware
and network upgrades. This expensive approach will not solve problems
caused by poorly chosen components and architectures. Instead, developers
need methods for designing QoS capabilities into distributed systems.

To explore these issues, IC invites contributions for this special issue.
Appropriate topics include:

  - Application-level availability and performance-modeling methods.
  - Application-level QoS measurement techniques.
  - Autonomic techniques to support application-level QoS.
  - Automated model building for application-level QoS.
  - Middleware performance characterization.
  - Performance modeling of distributed software architectures.
  - QoS issues in service-oriented architectures.
  - User-level workload models for distributed applications.

Submissions due 1 October 2005.
To submit a manuscript, log on to Manuscript Central at
http://cs-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com
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Dr. Daniel A. Menasce
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
Professor of Computer Science
School of Information Technology and Engineering, Room 160, MS 5C8
George Mason University
4400 University Dr.,
Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
www.cs.gmu.edu/faculty/menasce.html