CFP: Cluster Infrastructure for Web Server and E-Commerce

[Hai Jin]

                                          CALL FOR PAPERS

                               The 2001 International Workshop on
   Cluster Infrastructure for Web Server and E-Commerce (CISC'2001)

    http://ceng.usc.edu/~hjin/cisc2001/   or
http://www.buyya.com/cisc2001/

                                        Organized At

 IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
(CCGrid'2001)
                    May 16 - 18, 2001, Brisbane, Australia

  In Corporation with the IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC)


Scope

            The availability of high-speed networks and high-performance
microprocessors
is making networks of computers an appealing vehicle for cost-effective
internet and
business computing. Clusters of computers built using commodity hardware
and
software are playing a major role in web server design and E-Commerce.

            The CISC'2001 workshop organized at the CCGrid'2001
symposium will
serve as a major forum to present and share the latest research results
of the
work by international researchers, developers, and users. The focus of
this workshop
will be on both architecture and software aspects of web server and
E-commerce
by using cluster technology. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:

Web Server

      Scalability of clusters as web server
      Network architecture and protocol of cluster as web server
      Caching Algorithms for web server
      Web server performance
      Web server benchmark
      Network attached storage for web server
      Database for web server
      Security for web server
      Traffic Models & Statistics
      Job scheduling and load balancing for clustered web server
      Web server design and consolidation
      Web server monitoring and management
      Quality of Service of web server
      Web server for E-Commerce
      Fault tolerance and high availability of cluster as web sever
      Web server case studies by using cluster technology

E-Commerce

      Cluster, Hypercluster and Grid architecture for E-Commerce
      Security and cryptographic issues, methods and applications
      Cyber Guards
      Digital certification, identification and authentication in
E-Commerce
      Information storage, retrieval and update
      Web-based storage for E-Commerce
      Commerce-oriented middleware services
      Computational market for information services
      Formation of supply chains, coalitions, and virtual enterprises
      Software requirements and architectures for E-Commerce
      User interface support for E-Commerce
      Multilevel business support
      Intrusion prevention, detection and tolerance
      Data replication, consistency and caching
      Agent technology for E-Commerce
      Parallel databases and high performance reliable-mass storage
systems
      Data mining for E-Commerce
      Decision making in E-Commerce environments
      Automatic Sales forecasting and Poral Reconfiguration
      E-Commerce application case studies

Paper Submission

        Submission should include authors names, affiliations, addresses
and email
addresses on the cover page. Submission implies the willingness of at
least one of
the authors to register and present the paper. Please submit original,
full paper not
exceeding 10 pages of two column text using single spaced 10 point size
type on
8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines, see:
http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm. Authors should submit a
PostScript
(level 2) or PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer to the
workshop chair
Hai Jin by email. Hard copies should be sent only if electronic
submission is not possible.

Proceedings

        All papers selected for this workshop by peer-review process
will be published
in the the CCGrid'2001 symposium proceedings through the IEEE Computer
Society Press, USA and they will also be made available online through
the IEEE
digital library.

Workshop Chairs

Hai Jin
Internet and Cluster Computing Lab.
Department of EE-System, EEB-104
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, 90089, USA
Tel: +1-213-740-6433
Fax: +1-425-920-8937
Email: hjin at ceng.usc.edu
WWW: http://ceng.usc.edu/~hjin/

Rajkumar Buyya
School of Computing Science and Software Engineering
Monash University
Caulfield Campus, Melbourne, Vic. 3145, Australia
Phone: +61-3-9903 1969
Fax: +61-3-9903  2863
Email: rajkumar at csse.monash.edu.au
WWW: http:www.csse.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar

Program Committee Members

     Amnon Barak     (Hebrew University, Israel)
     Rajkumar Buyya    (Monash University, Australia)
     Peter Graham     (University of Manitoba, Canada)
     Kai Hwang     (University of Southern California, USA)
     Hai Jin     (University of Southern California, USA)
     Veljko Milutinovic     (University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia)
     Clifford Neuman     (ISI, University of Southern California, USA)
     Yi Pan    (University of Dayton, USA)
     Michael Rumsewicz    (University of Melbourne, Australia)
     Cho-Li Wang     (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
     Wensong Zhang     (National Laboratory for Parallel & Distributed
Processing, China)


Important Dates:

 Draft Papers due on:  November 4, 2000
 Notification of Acceptance:  December 20, 2000
 Camera Ready Papers and Preregistration due on:   January 24, 2001
 CCGrid'2001 Symposium: May 16 - 18, 2001