HotWeb'06: 
First Workshop on Hot Topics in
Web Systems and Technologies
(IEEE Sponsorship Pending)

http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/hotweb06

Boston, Massachusetts, USA
November 13-15, 2006

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Preliminary Call for Papers

HotWeb is a forum that brings together researchers and 
practitioners interested in the design, implementation, 
and evaluation of Internet systems and applications.  
The workshop seeks to act as a conduit for presentation 
of novel approaches used in support of performance,
scalability, and security of Internet applications, 
including Web searching and indexing, content distribution 
and delivery networks, Web services, and edge and grid 
computing.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: 

+ Content delivery architectures 
+ Peer-to-Peer systems 
+ Support for mobile and wireless systems 
+ Web caching and replication 
+ Edge services and dynamic content delivery 
+ Multimedia content distribution 
+ Overlay networks 
+ Content placement and request routing 
+ Measurement studies of deployed systems 
+ Security and privacy 
+ Wide-area upload and content gathering 
+ Novel web-based applications 
+ Web/database integration 
+ Information retrieval and searching 
+ Electronic commerce 
+ Internet telephony 

The HotWeb workshop is the successor of the WCW (Workshop
on Web Content Caching and Distribution), and the WIAPP 
(Workshop on Internet Applications) workshops, both of 
which are merging to form HotWeb. 

HotWeb 2006 is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
(support pending) and will be held in Boston during the 
week of November 12, 2006. 

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Organizing Committee:

General Chair:
  Azer Bestavros, Boston University 

Program Chair: 
  Bruce Maggs, Carnegie Mellon and Akamai Technologies 

Program Committee: 
  Pei Cao, Stanford 
  Armando Fox, Stanford 
  Arun Iyengar, IBM 
  Bruce Maggs, Carnegie Mellon and Akamai Technologies 
  Venkat Padmanabhan, Microsoft 
  Vivek Pai, Princeton 
  Pablo Rodriquez Rodriquez, Microsoft 
  Ramesh Sitaraman, U. Massachusetts and Akamai Technologies 
  Oliver Spatscheck, AT&T 
  Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo!
  Leonidas Kontothanassis, Intel 
  Steve Vinoski, IONA Technologies
  Tina Wong, Carnegie Mellon 

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Steering Committee: 
  Azer Bestavros, Boston University 
  Fred Douglis, IBM 
  Jeff Dean, Google 
  Arun Iyengar, IBM 
  Michael Rabinovich, Case Western Reserve 
  Pablo Rodriguez Rodriguez, Microsoft 
  Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo! 

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Important Dates: 
  Submission deadline: June 15, 2006 
  Notification: July 31, 2006 
  Workshop: November 13-15, 2006 

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For more information check http://www.cs.bu.edu/hotweb06