From: maheswar@garage.ecn.purdue.edu (Muthucumaru Maheswaran) Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: CFP: PDPTA '99 Special Session on QoS Date: 20 Mar 1999 06:44:45 GMT Organization: Purdue University Approved: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu Message-Id: <7cvg4t$eng$1@goldenapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu> Originator: bigrigg@ux6.sp.cs.cmu.edu Xref: ukc comp.parallel:15455 **************************************************************** EXTENDED ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 25, 1999 **************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Special Session on Quality of Service in High-Performance Distributed Systems in conjunction with the 1999 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Technologies and Applications (PDPTA '99) ( http://jhpc.org/pdpta/pdpta99.htm ) Las Vegas, Nevada, June 28 - July 1, 1999. ABOUT THE SESSION: Distributed computing systems are emerging as cost-effective platforms for high-performance computing. These systems are characterized by the presence of independent computing activities or tasks, highly dynamic and unpredictable networked environments, and heterogeneous computing resources whose performance may span a range of several orders of magnitude. To execute mission-critical applications in such distributed systems, it is necessary to provide end-to-end performance guarantees to the applications. Managing the quality-of-service (QoS) has been recognized as the key for delivering assured end-to-end performance for the applications. This session is concerned with the QoS management technologies that are relevant to distributed systems. The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: * taxonomies for QoS metrics, models, and specifications * QoS resource allocation, renegotiation, and maintenance * instrumentation for monitoring QoS * adaptive QoS-driven resource management for distributed systems * middleware and operating system support for QoS * QoS and adaptive distributed systems * QoS and real-time distributed systems * mapping application-level QoS constraints onto middleware * resource management systems * distributed computing applications and QoS requirements * distributed objects, distributed shared memory and QoS * metacomputing systems with QoS support * QoS programmability and languages * experimental studies on QoS SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Authors are invited to submit extended summaries of original unpublished research in topics related to this session. If a significant subset of the work has been published previously or is presently under consideration for publication elsewhere, the cover note should clearly indicate this detail along with a key list of differences. As long as there are significant differences the paper may appear in the proceedings when accepted. All submissions will be reviewed. The extended summaries should not exceed four (4) single-spaced pages of text using 12 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch pages. References, figures, tables, etc. may be included in addition to the four pages of text. For electronic submissions, the authors should submit a Postscript file that can be viewed using the Ghostscript or Ghostview and can be printed on a Postscript printer that uses 8.5 x 11 inch (letter size) paper. All hardcopy submissions should be sent to the session contact at the address given below. All manuscripts should be received by March 15, 1999. All accepted papers should be presented by one of the authors at PDPTA '99 during the special session. The accepted papers will be published in the PDPTA '99 conference proceedings. Some papers from the special session will be selected for publication in a special issue of an appropriate journal. See http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~maheswar/pdpta_qos for the latest information concerning the special session and http://jhpc.org/pdpta/pdpta99.htm for the latest information on PDPTA '99. Authors who would like to submit papers for consideration in other sessions of the PDPTA '99 conference should mail their papers to the PDPTA's General Chair. Please see the http://jhpc.org/pdpta/pdpta99.htm website for more details. IMPORTANT DATES: Extended summary due date -- March 15, 1999 Notification of acceptance -- April 3, 1999 Camera ready paper due -- May 1, 1999 SESSION CONTACT AND CHAIR: Prof. Muthucumaru Maheswaran University of Manitoba Department of Computer Science 533 Machray Hall Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 Canada Email: maheswar@cs.umanitoba.ca WWW: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~maheswar SESSION CO-CHAIR: Prof. Peter Graham University of Manitoba Department of Computer Science 545 Machray Hall Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 Canada Email: pgraham@cs.umanitoba.ca WWW: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~pgraham PDPTA '99 GENERAL CHAIR: Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia The University of Georgia Department of Computer Science 415 Graduate Studies Research Center Athens, Georgia 30602-7404 Email: hra@cs.uga.edu -- -- Articles to bigrigg+parallel@cs.cmu.edu (Admin: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel