FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
                 SCHEDULING AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS (IWTS)

                               27 April 2001
                        San Francisco, California, USA

                 (in conjunction with IPDPS - 23.04.01-27.04.01)

               http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~ese/IWST/IWST.html

                           FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

IMPORTANT DATES

       Papers due: November 27, 2000 
       Author notification: December 18, 2000 
       Camera-ready papers due: January 18, 2001 


PURPOSE AND SCOPE

The availability of large parallel computers and improved network technologies
has  increased  the  need  of  efficient  scheduling and  resource  management
policies. The  technological  developments in the communication networks, like
broad-band  or  ATM  networks  have  made  these  areas  very  interesting and
important in recent years. They have  also  created  new  research  directions
and  projects.  The  objectives  of this  workshop are of both theoretical and
practical significance. The  workshop  aims  to  contribute  to the  theory of
approximation and on-line  algorithms  for  scheduling  and  telecommunication
problems. It also aims to exploit this  theory to real world  applications and
to lead to practical algorithmic  tools, thus fostering  the cooperation among
theoretical and practical researchers of the field. 


TOPICS OF INTEREST

The workshop aims to act as a platform for topics related, but not limited to:
   
  Time and resource constrained scheduling 
  Scheduling with communication delays 
  Network scheduling 
  Network QoS routing 
  Load balancing and resource allocation 
  Routing and communication in networks 
  Facility location problems 
  Design of high performance networks 
  Wavelength routing and allocation 
  Edge disjoint paths in networks 
  ATM network problems 
  Frequency assignment in radio networks 
  Approximation and randomized algorithms 
  On-line algorithms 
  Complexity issues in scheduling and telecommunications 


SUBMITTING PAPERS

Prospective authors are invited to submit  original  unpublished  manuscripts,
not to exceed 8 single-spaced pages of text using 11 point size type or larger
on 8.5" x 11" pages. The  manuscript  should  include an  abstract of  100-200
words. A clearly marked appendix can be used for supporting material including
proofs,   simulation  results,  diagrams,  etc. The  corresponding  author  is
requested to include in a cover letter: his/her complete postal address, email
address,  fax number,  and a few  key  phrases  that  characterize the paper's
topic.

Submissions must be  received by  November 27, 2000. All  submissions  will be
reviewed by the Program Committee and outside referees.  Submissions may be by
hard copy  or  by  email. Electronic  submissions are  strongly  preferred and
should be sent to [log in to unmask] Authors should  submit  the  cover  page in
ASCII form followed by a PostScript file. Authors  should  make  sure that the
submission can be viewed using Ghostscript  and  that it  can be  printed on a
Postscript printer that  uses  standard  letter  size  paper.  For  hard  copy
submissions (discouraged), authors should submit six (6) hard copies  of their
paper along with the cover letter to the following address:

Roberto Solis-Oba 
The University of Western Ontario 
Department of Computer Science 
London ON, N6A 5B7 
Canada 


PROCEEDINGS

All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop. The full proceedings of
IPDPS (including IWST) will be  published on  CD-ROM by IEEE  Computer Society
Press, along with a volume containing the abstracts of all the papers. We  are
considering   the  possibility  of  publishing  a  separate  volume  with  the
proceedings of the workshop. 


INVITED SPEAKERS

  Christos Kaklamanis (CTI, Greece) 
  Cliff Stein (Dartmouth C., USA) 
  Denis Trystram (ID, France) 


WORKSHOP CHAIR

  Klaus Jansen, University of Kiel, Germany. Email: [log in to unmask] 

PROGRAM CHAIR

  Roberto Solis-Oba, U. Western Ontario, Canada. Email: [log in to unmask] 


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

  Micah Adler (U. Massachussets, USA) 
  Evripidis Bampis (U. D'Evry, France) 
  Jacek Blazewicz (P. Poznanska, Poland) 
  Peter Brucker (U. Osnabruck, Germany) 
  Jianer Chen (U. Texas A&M, USA) 
  Ed Coffman (Columbia U., USA) 
  Afonso Ferreira (INRIA, France) 
  Christos  Kaklamanis (CTI, Greece) 
  Madav Marathe (LANL, USA) 
  Pino Persiano (U. Salerno, Italy) 
  Lorant Porkolab (Imperial C., UK) 
  Jose Rolim (U. Geneva, Switzerland) 
  Uwe Schwiegelshohn (U. Dortmund, Germany) 
  Cliff Stein (Dartmouth C., USA) 
  Denis Trystram (ID, France)




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