This is the fourth year for the Web Caching Workshop. Not unlike the Internet itself, interest and participation in the Caching Workshops has doubled every year since the first was held in 1996. The 1999 workshop is being organized by NLANR and CAIDA, and will be held at the University of California in San Diego.

All submitted papers will be formally refereed by a program committee. The selected papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, and the authors will be invited to make a 20-minute presentation of their work. Papers which are not selected for publication may be invited for presentation as posters or as "works in progress."

Subject Areas For the Workshop

Papers are invited on all matters related to caching. The particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Legal, social, and economic issues.
• Inter-cache communication techniques and protocols.
• Tools and techniques for analyzing and improving cache performance.
• Experiences in implementing caches on local, regional, or a national scale.
• Algorithms for reducing end-user latencies; e.g. prefetching.
• Caching software.
• Caching hardware.
• Benefits of caching, user experiences, views, requirements etc.

Information for Paper Submission

Full papers, limited to 5000 words, are to be submitted by January 15, 1999. All papers must be written in English. Manuscripts that have already been published or are currently under review elsewhere will be rejected. Papers must be submitted electronically, in Postscript "US-Letter" format. Please see the Workshop URL for specific submission instructions.

Exhibition & Demonstration Facilities

An exhibition area will be available for demonstrations and for companies sponsoring the workshop.

Workshop Location & Accommodations

The workshop will be held at the Institute of the Americas, on the University of California San Diego campus. We have reserved a number of rooms for workshop attendees in area hotels. See the Workshop URL for details.

Attendance

Attendance will be limited to approximately 250 attendees. If you would like to attend, please send us a brief note with your interests and/or background to wcw99@ircache.net.

Important Dates

January 15	Electronic paper submission due Extended: New deadline is January 22nd
February 22	Notification of acceptance
March 5	Hotel reservation deadline
March 15	Registration cutoff
March 24	Final abstracts and Postscript versions of the papers are due
March 31	Final HTML versions of the papers are due
March 31- April 2	Workshop

Program Committee

- Pei Cao, University of Wisconsin (co-chair)

- John Martin, TERENA (co-chair)

- Peter Danzig, Network Appliance

- Fred Douglis, AT&T Laboratories

- Barry Greene, Cisco Systems

- Christian Grimm, University of Hanover and DFN Association, Germany

- Martin Hamilton, Loughborough University, UK

- Jaeyeon Jung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

- Wagner Meira, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

- Ingrid Melve, Uninett, Norway

- George Michaelson, Distributed Systems Technology Center, Australia

- Misha Rabinovich, AT&T Laboratories

- Kathy Richardson, Compaq

- Wayne Salamonsen, National University of Singapore

- Wojtek Sylwestrzak, Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical and Computational Modeling, Poland

- Lixia Zhang, University of California Los Angeles

Contacts & Information

Local Organization:

Duane Wessels (wessels@ircache.net)
Amy Blanchard (amy@caida.org) +1 (619) 534-8338

General Questions:

wcw99@ircache.net

Program Committee:

wcw99-pc@ircache.net

Organizers

NLANR

The National Laboratory for Applied Network Research--is a loose collaboration of networking researchers in the United States who are primarily based at the supercomputing centers. NLANR receives funding from the National Science Foundation.

CAIDA

The Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis, is a collaborative undertaking among commercial, academic and government organizations seeking to promote greater cooperation in the engineering and maintenance of a robust, scalable global Internet infrastructure.