July 25 - 29, 2004

San Jose Hyatt
San Jose, California


General Chair
Mohammad S. Obaidat
Dept. of Computer Science Monmouth University
W. Long Branch, NJ 07764 USA
Tel +1-732-571-4482
Fax +1-732-263-5202

     
Vice General Chair
Franco Davoli
DIST-University of Genoa
Via Opera Pia 13, I-16145 Genoa, Italy
Tel +39-010-353-2732
Fax +39-010-353-2154

     
Program Chair
Abbas Jamalipour
School of Electrical and Information Engineering
University of Sydney
Sydney N.S.W. 2006, Australia
Tel:: +61 2 9351 2843,
Fax: +61 2 9351 3847

     
Vice Program & Special Sessions Chair
Jose L Marzo
University of Girona, Spain

     
Vice Program & Tutorial Chair
Mario Marchese
DIST-University of Genoa

     
Vice Program & Publicity Chair
Imad Mahgoub
Department of Computer Science
and Engineering
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL 33431 USA

     
Industrial Track
J. Fox
Motorola Inc., UK
   

Exhibits
Steve Branch
SCS

Sponsored by
The Society for Modeling and Simulation International
 P.O. Box 17900
San Diego, CA  92177-7900
Tel: 858-277-3888
Fax: 858-277-3930
http://www.scs.org

Call For Tutorial Proposals

2004 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS'04)

The SPECTS2004 organizing committee is seeking high quality tutorials in the area of Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems. Tutorials must present tutorial material, that is, provide results that are established and do so in an interactive format.

Tutorial material should be related to the conference themes, which include (but is not limited to):

Networking and Telecommunication Systems

Internet Technology
Quality of Service (QoS)
DiffServ/IntServ
MPLS
TCP
World Wide Web (WWW) Technology
Networking Techniques
Unicast and Multicast Routing
Congestion Control
Switching Techniques
Tele-traffic
Network Protocols
Network Management and Control
Network Capacity Planning
Network Architecture Evaluation
Service and QoS Pricing
Security and Authentication
Broadband Networks
High-Speed Networking
ATM
Optical Networks
Wireless Systems and Networks 
Satellite Systems
UMTS
Mobile Networks/Computing
Ad-hoc networks
Multimedia Communications and
Applications

 

Computer Systems

Distributed Architectures
Client/Server
Distributed Systems and Agents
Parallel and Distributed Computing
Massively Parallel Systems
Cluster Computing
Grid Computing
Interconnection Networks
Computer Architectures
Microprocessors/Microcomputers
Memory Systems
High Performance I/O
Real-time Systems
Scheduling Schemes
Software
Software Performance, Evaluation and Testing
Parallel Algorithms and Languages
Hardware and Software Monitors
High-Performance Computing
Workload and Traffic Characterization
Scientific Computing Algorithms
Reconfigurable Computing
Electronic Commerce

 

Tools, Methodologies and Applications

Parallel and Distributed Simulation
Verification and Validation
Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications 
Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models
Queuing Systems and Networks
Scalability Studies
Integrated Modeling and Measurement
On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning
Process Algebra-Based Models
Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance
Case Studies


Proposal Submission

The proposal must contain:
Title of the tutorial
Name and affiliation of the presenter(s). 
A brief biography of the presenter(s) with evidence for research and teaching experience.
A short description of the tutorial (1-2 paragraphs)
List of Topics
Motivation (relevance to the conference themes)
Target audience
Duration (half-day only). 

Note: all full day proposals will be treated as two separate ½ day tutorials and need to be structured into two clearly separate parts.

Proposals should be e-mailed to:
Mario Marchese
Vice Program Chair and Tutorial Chair
CNIT - Italian National Consortium for Telecommunications
University of Genoa Research Unit
Via Opera Pia 13, 16145 Genova (Italy)

Key Dates

Submission of Papers    February 28, 2004
Notification of Acceptance April 25, 2004
Final Tutorial Notes Due May 23, 2004

Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International
P.O. Box 17900
San Diego, California 92177
Phone 858-277-3888
Fax 858-277-3930
E-mail scs@scs.org

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