-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] 1st CFP: J. of WWW: Special Issue on Web Servers and Content Distribution Networks (CDN) Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 22:02:47 +0200 From: Yuval Shavitt shavitt@eng.tau.ac.il Organization: Tel Aviv University To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call for Papers Special Issue on Web Servers and Content Distribution Networks (CDN) Journal of World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1386-145X

With the explosive growth of both web contents and web users in the Internet, a great amount of efforts has been put on the improvement of the performance of web servers and the quality of web accesses by users. Content Distribution Networks (CDN) have been emerging as a new technology for delivering web contents to end users with high quality. This journal special is dedicated to researchers and practitioners to present the latest results and experience of their research and system development. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

* Content Distribution Networks (CDN) * Fault tolerance and load balancing of web services * Web caching and proxying * Web caching for streaming media * Clustering of web servers * Placement of mirrored web servers and proxies * Performance analysis of web servers and proxies * Web searching techniques

Submission Guidelines: Manuscripts should be limited to 20 pages. Please submit full papers, not previously published or submitted elsewhere for publication to one of the guest editors electronically (postscript, PDF or MS Word). Please also send a separate email with authors' names, addresses, fax numbers, title of the paper.

Guest Editors: Prof. Xiaohua Jia Dept. of Computer Sci. City Univ of Hong Kong jia@cs.cityu.edu.hk

Dr. Yuval Shavitt Dept. of Electrical Engineering - Systems Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel shavitt@eng.tau.ac.il

Important Dates: Manuscript due: 1 May 2003 Acceptance notification: 15 Augest 2003

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