To: susanne.guth@wu-wien.ac.at From: "Gabriele Kotsis" gabriele.kotsis@jku.ac.at Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 23:11:55 Subject: Reminder: mascots 2003 deadline approaching X-WU-uvscan-status: clean v4.2.40/v4259 charon a74383b71d83a8b8ba45aa726ddcef56
Dear Susanne,
this is to kindly remind you that the deadlien for submissions to mascopts 2003 is may 4, 2003.
you can submit your paper via
http://www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at/mascots2003/cm/REG-paper/
further info about mascots 2003 can be found in the attached call for papers and on the web
http://www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at/mascots2003/
I also appreaciate your help in distributing this call for papers to all of your collegues who might be interested in mascots.
I am looking forward to receiving your submission,
Gabriele Kotsis mascots 2003 PC chair
Univ. Prof. Dr. Gabriele KotsisTel: +43 732 2468 9238 Telecooperation Department Fax: +43 732 2468 9829 Johannes Kepler Universitaet Linz email: gabriele.kotsis@jku.ac.at Altenberger Strasse 69 http://www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at A-4040 Linz, Austria
CALL FOR PAPERS MASCOTS2003 The 11th IEEE/ACM* International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems 12 - 15 October 2003, Orlando (FL) http://www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at/mascots2003 Venue: Orlando Airport Marriott 7499 Augusta National Drive Orlando, FL 32822
- IEEE/ACM- Approval Pending
The scope of the symposium includes, but is not limited to:[-] Computer Architecture Modeling and Simulation [-] Parallel and Distributed Systems
[-] Real-Time and Multimedia Systems [-] Internetworking Protocol and Performance [-] Wireless and Mobile Networking and Computing [-] Broadband and Telecommunication Networks and Software [-] Network Traffic Studies [-] Web-Based Systems [-] Application areas such as databases [-] Analysis Techniques and Formal Methods [-] Benchmarking and Measurement Techniques [-] Capacity Planning [-] Performance Analysis and Validation Techniques
[-] Workload Characterization and Generation [-] Discrete Event Simulation methodology and Tools [-] Middleware Performance (Object Oriented, Parallel Simulation etc.)
Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance which have not been published elsewhere. The proceedings will be published by IEEE.
TOOLS TRACK Authors are encouraged to submit papers describing tools suitable for on-line demonstration. The tools papers will undergo a regular review process and will be published in the conference proceedings in a dedicated tools section. Separate sessions are planned where these tools will be demonstrated on-line. Projection systems capable for projecting from laptop screens and videotapes will be available. The authors are required to bring any additional equipment necessary for demonstration.Questions regarding tools track should be directed to the Tools Chair. Submissions can be submitted online viahttp://www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at/mascots2003 or can be sent directly to Jane Hilston jeh@inf.ed.ac.uk by the deadline May 30, 2003.
PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION Papers must not exceed 20 double-spaced pages with a minimum of 10-point font and must include an abstract, keywords, authors contact information (providing both postal and email addresses). Papers must be unpublished original work and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers in electronic form (preferably PDF or PostScript) using http://www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at/mascots2003/cm/REG-paper/ Those unable to use electronic means should mail five (5) complete copies of the paper to Prof. Gabriele Kotsis by May 4, 2003.
PROCEEDINGS All regular papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by IEEE. Tool papers will also appear in the proceedings in a separate section. In order to guarantee publication it is necessary that the paper is formatted in coherence with the guidelines, received in time (July, precise date to be announced), and that at least one of the authors has registered for the conference. SPECIAL ISSUE Selected papers presented MASCOTS 2003 will be published in a special issue of the Performance Evaluation journal published by Elsevier. Based on suggestions from the programme committee, the program chair will invite selected authors to submit an extended version of their conference paper for possible publication in the journal. Those papers will again be reviewed with the help of the programme committee after the conference.
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS Proposals for half-day workshops are solicited on timely topics related to the above areas. The workshop proposal must include a description of topics presented and biographies of potential presenters. Send workshop proposals directly to the Workshops Chair, Ramon Puigjaner <putxi@uib.es> by the deadline May 4, 2003.
CALL FOR TUTORIALS Proposals for tutorials, running for 2 to 3 hours, are solicited on timely topics related to the above areas. The tutorial proposal must include description and length of the tutorial, breakdown of topics, and biographies of the presenters. Send tutorial proposals directly to the Tutorials Chair Mariacarla Calzarossa <mcc.unipv.it> by the deadline May 4, 2003.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair Erol Gelenbe University of Central Florida erol@cs.ucf.edu Program Chair Gabriele Kotsis Telecooperation Department Johannes Kepler University Linz Altenberger Strasse 69 A-4040 Linz, Austria Phone: +43 732 2468 9238 Fax: +43 732 2468 9829 gabriele.kotsis@jku.ac.at Workshops Chair Ramon Puigjaner Univerity of the Baleares (Spain) putxi@uib.es Tools Chair Jane Hillston University of Edinburgh Scotland, UK jeh@inf.ed.ac.uk Tutorials Chair Mariacarla Calzarossa University of Pavia Italy mcc@unipv.it Finance Chair David Finkel Computer Science Department Worcester Polytechnic Institute 100 Institute Road Worcester, MA 01609, USA Phone: (508) 831-5416 Fax: (508) 831-5776 dfinkel@wpi.edu Publicity Co-Chairs Khaled Hussain and Ricardo Lent University of Central Florida {khaled,rlent}@cs.ucf.edu Local Arrangements Chair Amy Wedel Division of Continuing Education University of Central Florida 407-882-0241 awedel@mail.ucf.eduProgram Committee
Dharma P. Agrawal, University of Cincinnatti, USA Khalid Al-Begain, Bradford University, UK Mostafa Bassiouni, University of Central Florida, USA Monique Becker, INT, France Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Azzeddine Boukerche, University of North Texas, USA Gregor v. Bochman, University of Ottawa, Canada Mariacarla Calzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy Sajal K. Das, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA Samir Das, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria David Finkel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Jean Michel Fourneau, University of Versailles, France Ratan Guha, University of Central Florida, USA Mohsen Guizani, University of Michigan, USA Guenter Haring, University of Vienna, Austria Peter Harrison, Imperial College, UK Hossam Hossanein, Queens University, Canada Sungbum Hong, University of North Texas, USA Alain Jean-Marie, LIRMM, France Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Darrell Long, UC Santa Cruz, USA Shikharesh Majumdar, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Raymond Marie, IRISA, France Dan Marinescu, University of Central Florida, USA Daniel A. Menasce, George Mason University, USA David Nicol, Dartmouth College, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Nihal Pekergin, University of Versailles St-Quentin, France Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain William H. Sanders, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA Mirela Sechi M. A. Notare, Barddal University, SC, Brazil Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA S V Raghavan, IIT Madras, India Gerardo Rubino, IRISA, France J. Bosco M. Sobral, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Satish K. Tripathi, University of California, Riverside, USA Kishor S. Trivedi, Duke University, USA Carl Tropper, McGill University, Canada Salvatore Tucci, University of Rome II, Italy Stephen J. Turner, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Carey Williamson, University of Calgary, Canada Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Canada Zhiguang Xu, University of Central Florida, USA Jason Lin Yi-Bing, National Chiao-Tung Univ. Taiwan Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Western Australia