International Workshop on Scalable Web Services
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Monday, August 21, 2000

Program Chair:

    Daniel Andresen, Kansas State University, USA 

Program Committee:

    Anurag Acharya, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA 
    Mark Crovella, Boston University, USA 
    Arun Iyengar, IBM T.J. Watson Labs, USA 
    Sharad Garg, Intel Corp., Beaverton, OR, USA 
    Rich Wolski, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA 
    Tao Yang, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA 

Each speaker is expected to have approximately 30 minutes total.


Schedule:
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Session 1: Networking
Chair: Daniel Andresen

Challenges in Layer-4 Switching for Implementing Globally Distributed
Web Sites
Zornitza Genova and Kenneth J. Christensen
christen@csee.usf.edu

Active Streaming in Transport Delay Minimization
Javed I. Khan
javed@kent.edu

Reducing Web Latency with Hierarchical Cache-based Prefetching,  
Dan Foygel and Dennis Strelow
dstrelow@cs.cmu.edu

Session 2: Web Servers
Chair: Peter Cappello

Cycle Server: a Web Platform for Running Parallel Monte Carlo
Applications on a Heterogenous Condor Pool of Workstations
Mike Zhou, Michael Mascagni
mhzhou@us.oracle.com

Design of an I/O Balancing File System on Web Server Clusters
Wei Liu, Min Wu, Xinming Ou, Weimin Zheng, Meiming Shen
lw@est4.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn

Load Distribution via Static Scheduling and Client Redirection for
Replicated Web Servers
Wenting Tang and Matt Mutka
tangwen1@cse.msu.edu

[lunch break]

Session 3: Application Architecture
Session Chair: Husain Ibraheem

Internet-based TSP Computation with Javelin++
Michael Neary and Peter Cappello
neary@cs.ucsb.edu

A Scalable Stock Web Service
Katherine Betz
katherin@us.ibm.com

NinjaMail: the Design of a High-Performance Clustered, Distributed
E-Mail System
J. Robert von Behren, Seven Czerwinski, Anthony Joseph
Eric Brewer and John Kubiatowicz
czerwin@cs.berkeley.edu