Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: samir@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Samir Ranjan Das)
Reply-To: samir@cc.gatech.edu
Subject: MASCOTS'96 (Call for Papers)
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 18:05:08 GMT
Message-ID: <3ih433$1k5@ring08.cs.utsa.edu>


                  
		  C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S

                 International Workshop on Modeling,
               Analysis and Simulation of  Computer and
                Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'96)

      Co-sponsored by the IEEE (Computer Society, TCCA,  TCSIM)

      In Cooperation with the ACM (SIGSIM, SIGARCH, SIGMETRICS),

                     February 1 -- February 3, 1996
                       San Jose, California, USA

        WWW home page: http://rabbit.cs.utsa.edu/MASCOTS-96.html  

The Fourth International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of
Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'96) will be held in
conjunction with the Second International Symposium on High-Performance
Computer Architecture (HPCA-96). MASCOTS is an annual workshop for 
researchers,  practitioners,  developers and experts with  interests  in 
systems  design, modeling,  analysis, simulation,  and  performance  
evaluation.  It provides a forum  for researchers and  practitioners  to  
meet  and  discuss  the spectrum  of  theory  and  application  of  
performance modeling and analysis. 

The  workshop  will feature prominent  guest speakers,  presentations  of
refereed  papers and  posters as well as on-line demonstration of tools.

Papers are solicited on any aspects of modeling, analysis and simulation  
of computer and telecommunication systems, both methodological and 
special case study-oriented. Topic areas include, but not limited to,

Performance Techniques 

 -- Performance models
 -- Discrete event simulation
 -- Techniques for improving simulation efficiency 
 -- Performance monitoring and visualization
 -- System and application program tuning
 -- Numeric simulation and visualization techniques
 -- Performability modeling
 -- Specification and validation techniques

Performance evaluation and case studies 

 -- Parallel and distributed systems and applications
 -- Advanced computer architecture
 -- Memory hierarchies and network memory systems
 -- Database systems
 -- Massively parallel and scalable systems
 -- Telecommunication/communication systems
 -- Application systems, such as DSP/AI  applications,  expert  systems,
    vision and  image processing systems, robotics and control, etc.
 
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AUTHOR INFORMATION
 
Papers must not  exceed  20 double-spaced pages along with  
an abstract and  3-5 keywords.   An  author of  each accepted
paper is required to  attend the  meeting  and  to present  the paper.
 
A  limited number of posters/short papers may  also  be admitted.  For
posters, an extended abstract of maximum 4 double-spaced pages must be
submitted.  Full-length papers and poster abstracts will appear in the
proceedings.
 
Send four copies of your regular papers, to the Program Chair  
(Xiaodong Zhang) at the address given below. 

Authors are encouraged to submit a paper describing a tool suitable
for online demonstration. There will be separate tools sessions
where these tools are to be demonstrated online on a supplied
workstation, as compared to theoretical talks of regular papers. The 
papers describing the tools will undergo the regular review process
and will be included in the conference proceedings. All submissions must 
contain the details  of the  necessary  equipment. Send  description on
tools to one of the Tools Fair Chairs (Thomas Braunl or Gunter Mamier).  
Brief descriptions of selected tools including pictures (max. 4 
double-spaced page)  will also appear in the proceedings. 
 
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SCHEDULE
 
     July 15, 1995: Deadline for submissions of papers
     July 15, 1995: Deadline for tool proposals
September 15, 1995: Notification of acceptance
  October 15, 1995: Deadline for camera-ready copy
 
People interested in forming special sessions should contact
the Program Chair (Xiaodong Zhang).
 
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STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS
 
Dharma Agrawal (NCSU, USA),
Kallol Bagchi (Consultant, USA)
Giovanni Chiola (U Genova, Italy),
Doug DeGroot (TI, USA),
Patrick Dowd (SUNY-Buffalo, USA),
Herb Schwetman (Mesquite Software, USA) 
Kishor Trivedi (Duke U, USA),
Jean Walrand (UC Berkeley, USA)
 
 
GENERAL CHAIR
 
Dharma Agrawal 
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC  27695-7911
Email: dpa@ncsu.edu
Phone: +(1) 919-515-3984
Fax: +(1) 919-515-5523
 
 
PROGRAM CHAIR

Xiaodong Zhang  
High Performance Computing and Software Laboratory  
University of Texas at San Antonio  
San Antonio, Texas 78249 
Email: zhang@ringer.cs.utsa.edu
Phone: +(1) 210-691-5541 
Fax: +(1) 210-691-4439 
 
 
TOOLS FAIR CHAIRs 
 
Thomas Braunl and Gunter Mamier                               
IPVR                                       
University of Stuttgart, Breitwiesenstr. 20-22         
D-70565 Stuttgart, Germany              
Email: braunl@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de 
Email: mamier@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de                                           
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PUBLICITY AND PUBLICATION CHAIR 

Samir R. Das 
University of Texas at San Antonio 
San Antonio, Texas 78249, U.S.A. 
Email: samir@ringer.cs.utsa.edu 

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LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR 

Tse-Yu Yeh 
Intel Corporation 
Santa Clara, CA 95052-8119
Email: tyyeh@mipos2.intel.com

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TREASURER AND REGISTRATION CHAIR 

Anup Kumar 
University of Louisville 
Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA 
E-mail: a0kuma01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS 

Santosh Abraham (HP Lab, USA) 
Ian Akyildiz (Georgia Tech, USA)  
Thomas Braunl (U Stuttgart, Germany)
Giovanni Chiola (U Genova, Italy)
Gianfranco Ciardo (College William and Mary, USA)
James M. Conrad (U Arkansas, USA)
Chita Das (Penn State, USA) 
Sajal Das (U of North Texas, USA) 
Samir R. Das (UTSA, USA) 
Patrick Dowd (SUNY-Buffalo, USA)
Larry Dowdy (Vanderbilt U, USA)
Paul Fishwick (U Florida, USA)
Richard Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, USA)
Erol Gelenbe (Duke U, USA)
Albert Greenberg (AT&T, USA)
Guenter Haring (U Vienna, Austria)
Philip Heidelberger (IBM, USA)
Guy Juanole (LAAS, France)
Bob Jump (Rice U, USA)
Jason Lin (Bellcore, USA)
Darrell Long (UCSC, USA)
Guenter Mamier (U Stuttgart, Germany)
M Ajmone Marsan (Poly Torino, Italy)
Richard Muntz (UCLA, USA)  
David Nicol (College William and Mary, USA)
Ken Sevcik (U Toronto, Canada) 
Nita Sharma (NCUBE, USA) 
Alan J. Smith (UC Berkeley, USA)
Keith Townsend, (NCSU, USA) 
Satish Tripathi (U Maryland, USA)
Kishor Trivedi (Duke U, USA)
Peter Wilke (U Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany)  
Yong Yan (HuaZhong U, P. R. China) 
                 
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PUBLICITY COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Europe: 

Guy Juanole 
Laboratoire D'Automatique et D'Analyse des Systemes, France
Email: juanole@laas.laas.fr

Asia: 

Yong Yan 
HuaZhong University of Science and Technology 
Wuhan, P. R. China
Email: yyan@dragon.cs.utsa.edu 

North America and other areas: 

Samir R. Das 
Division of Computer Science 
University of Texas at San Antonio 
San Antonio, Texas 78249, U.S.A. 
Email: samir@ringer.cs.utsa.edu 





