CALL FOR PAPERS
FOURTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
ACTIVE MIDDLEWARE SERVICES
July 23, 2002 (Note change of date from July 25)
http://www.lasr.cs.ucla.edu/AMS_2002

To be held in conjunction with the Eleventh IEEE International
Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-11), July
24-26, 2002 and the Global Grid Forum (GGF) July 22-24, 2002,
Edinburgh, United Kingdom.


Sponsored by:

    * National Science Foundation
    * University of Southern California 
    * Center for Advanced TeleSysMatics (CAT), University of Arizona 
    * Other sponsorship pending 

Open network architectures and active network technologies offer new opportunities to provide better networking services.  But the increasing complexity of networks that comes along with active technologies requires additional support for application developers and users.  Middleware will play a crucial role in the degree to which active technologies achieve their full potential.  This workshop will bring together leading researchers in the field of middleware for active technologies and allow them to discuss the difficult issues in that field.  Researchers in related areas, such as proxies, middleware for electronic commerce, distributed component systems, and intelligent routers and switches are also welcome to add their expertise to the discussions.

Extended abstracts are requested in the following and other relevant areas:

    * Agent systems and scout systems 
    * Middleware to support development and debugging of applications for active networks
    * Middleware to allow cooperative use of multiple proxies
    * Programmable and active networks
    * Data-driven network applications
    * Service dissemination and discovery protocols
    * Network storage systems leveraging active technology
    * Environments and algorithms for agent application development 
    * Proxies and middleware for deploying remote agents
    * Runtime support for intelligent, adaptive agents 
    * Heterogeneous active environments
    * Security services for applications in active environments
    * Middleware for improving the security and resiliency of active environments
    * Active networks and storage as integral grid computing resources 
    * Programming paradigms, applications, and requirements for active grids 
    * Middleware for administering active networks
    * Middleware to support alternate routing strategies
    * Middleware to support QoS guarantees in activ


SUBMISSION
Please submit extended abstracts (5 pages maximum) .  Electronic submission is preferred, but hardcopy submissions will be accepted.  Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE proceedings available at the conference. Any questions concerning hardcopy submission or any other issues may be directed to the Program Chair.

IMPORTANT DATES 
Submission deadline:             March 22, 2002 (NOTE EXTENSION. FURTHER EXTENSIONS WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE.) 
Notification of acceptance:    April 10, 2002 
Final manuscript due:            May 1, 2002 

PUBLICATION 
The workshop proceedings will be published and distributed 
at the conference. 

GENERAL CHAIR 
C. S. Raghavendra, University of Southern California

PROGRAM CHAIR 
Peter Reiher, reiher@cs.ucla.edu
UCLA,
3564 Boelter Hall
405 Hilgard Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90095
USA

STEERING COMMITTEE
Vaduvur Bharghavan, University of Illinois 
Salim Hariri, University of Arizona 
Constantine Polychronopoulos, University of Illinois 
C. S. Raghavendra, University of Southern California
Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Micah Beck, University of Tennessee 
Kirstie Bellman, The Aerospace Corporation 
Steve Berson, ISI/USC
Rajkumar Buyya, Monash University, Australia 
Munehiro Fukuda, Tsukuba University, Japan 
Virginie Galtier, LORIA - Universite Henri Poincare
Salim Hariri, University of Arizona 
Geoffrey Kuenning, Harvey Mudd College
Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation
Laurent Lefhvre, RESAM/INRIA
Douglas Maughan, DARPA
Kevin Mills, NIST 
Hilarie Orman, Volera
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University
Constantine Polychronopoulos, University of Illinois 
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology 
Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota
Raj Yavatkar, Intel Corporation