Cell Relay Archive

[QNETS 2000 Conference <qnet2000@scm.brad.ac.uk>]

Second Announcement and Call for Papers 
---------------------------------------

                   FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
                               ON
                QUEUEING NETWORKS WITH FINITE CAPACITY                            
                           (QNETs 2000)

Supported by
 
   British Computer Society (BCS) Performance Engineering Specialist Group
   INFORMS Applied Probability Society (U.S.A.)
   Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, U.K.) 
   Instutute of Electrical and Electronic (IEE) Engineers (U.K.)
   Telematics International (U.K.)
   Teletel SA (Greece)
   Performance Engineering Section of BT Labs. (U.K.) 
   Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6), Universite Pierre et 
   Marie  Curie (France)
   Universities of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), of Bradford (U.K.) 
   and of Venice (Italy)

                        
               Thursday 20th - Friday 21st July, 2000
            Craiglands Hotel*, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, U.K.

(* The Craiglands is a delightful Victorian country hotel on the edge of 
the beautiful Yorkshire Dales and near the famed Ilkley Moor.)

Queueing Network Models (QNMs) with  Finite Capacity  provide  powerful
and  realistic  tools  for  performance  evaluation  and  prediction of
discrete flow systems such as computer systems, transportation
networks, communication networks and flexible manufacturing systems.
Over the years a vast amount of progress has been made in the analysis
and applications of QNMs with  Finite Capacity and high quality
research work has appeared in diverse  scientific journals of learning
and conference proceedings in the fields of  Operations Research,
Computer Science, Communication Engineering, Traffic Engineering and
Management/Industrial Engineering.  However, there are still many
important and interesting finite capacity queues and QNMs under various
blocking machanisms and synchronisation constraints to be resolved such
as those involving multiple-job classes, bounds and theoretical
properties as well as application studies to, for example, distributed
computing systems, high-speed networks, highway networks and modern
production systems.

The aim of the Workshop is to continue the tradition established by the
first three international Workshops (1988 & 1992, Raleigh, North
Carolina, U.S.A. and 1995, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, U.K.) in the field
and to contribute to fundamental theory and applications of finite
capacity networks. The Workshop brings together research students and
experts from many diverse areas and thus provide  the platform  for
exchanging  new concepts and ideas and discuss the opportunity for new
research  initiatives.


General Chair 
-------------
Demetres Kouvatsos, U.K.

Programme Co-Chairs
-------------------
Simonetta Balsamo, Italy
Nico van Dijk, The Netherlands

Provisional Scientific Committee
---------------------------------

   T. Altiok, U.S.A.                     V.V. Anisimov, Turkey & Ukraine 
   T. Atmaca, France                     M. Becker, France  
   P.P. Bocharov, Russia                 G. Bolch, Germany
   A. Brandwajn, U.S.A.                  H. Bruneel,Belgium
   R.J. Boucherie, The Netherlands       B.D. Bunday, U.K. 
   J. Buzacott, Canada                   R. Chakka, U.K
   R.C.H. Cheng, U.K.                    T. Czachorski, Poland 
   Y. Dallery, France                    V. De Nitto, Italy
   L. Donatiello, Italy                  S. Fdida, Paris, France 
   Y. Frein, France                      A. Ganz, U.S.A.  
   E. Gelenbe, U.S.A.                    S. Gershwin, U.S.A.   
   P.G. Harisson, U.K.                   B. R. Haverkort, Germany 
   G. Iazeolla, Italy                    H. Inai, Japan 
   Y. Kogan, U.S.A.                      H. Korezlioglu, France 
   E.M. Koenigsberg, U.S.A.              J.Y. LeBoudec, Switzerland 
   J. MacGregor Smith, U.S.A.            R. Marie, France 
   I. Mitrani, U.K.                      A. Nilsson, U.S.A.    
   R.O. Onvural, U.S.A.                  H.G. Perros, U.S.A.
   G. Pujolle, France                    B. Sengupta, U.S.A.      
   G. Shanthikumar, U.S.A.               C.Strelen, Germany
   Y. Takahashi, Japan                   A. Tantawi, U.S.A. 
   T. Tolio, Italy                       F. Toomey, Ireland 
   D. Towsley, U.S.A.                    D. Wagner, Germany   
   W. Whenders, Australia                M. Woodward, U.K.   
   J. Yamakita, Japan                    H. Yamashita, Japan    
   D. Yao, U.S.A.                        Y.Zlotnikov, Israel

The Workshop will focus on theoretical and practical advances on building
block queues and QNMs with finite capacity, including 

 . Exact Analysis
 . Numerical Solutions
 . Approximation methods
 . Error Bounds
 . Theoretical Properties
 . Applications to
        . Computer Systems
        . High Speed Communication (incl. Mobile and Wireless) Networks
        . Distributed Systems
        . Transportation (Highway, Railway & Airway) Networks
        . Flexible Manufacturing Systems

Prospective authors are invited to submit: 

. Technical abstracts of approximately 300 words (single spaced text) for a 
  position paper or work in progress

. Proposals on 1-2 A4 size pages (single spaced text) for a tutorial paper 

by Friday 19th. May 2000 to

   Professor Simonetta Balsamo,
   Italy, e-mail: <balsamo@dsi.unive.it>, or

   Professor Nico van Dijk,  
   The Netherlands, e-mail: <NIVD@fee.uva.nl>, or

   Professor Demetres Kouvatsos, 
   U.K., e-mail: <D.D.Kouvatsos@comp.brad.ac.uk>.

Please note all proposed submissions should be in English and be sent
as standard email correspondence using plain text and include, as key
words, a list of topics under which the authors prefer their work to be
classified and presented.

Following  acceptance,  authors  will  be  notified by  Friday the 26th
of May, 2000 to prepare for the QNETs 2000 Workshop Volume a short
paper of not more than 12 A4 size pages (for a position paper) and 6 A4
size pages (for work in progress) - single space text - by Friday 23rd
of June 2000. Authors of mature work will also  be invited to submit
extended versions of their papers up to 25 pages of A4 size (single
spaced text) by Friday 1st of September 2000 for consideration for
publication,  subject  to peer review, in a  special issue of a
reputable journal of learning on "Queueing Networks with Blocking".

For further information prospective participants are invited to contact
Professor Demetres Kouvatsos (e-mail: D.D.Kouvatsos@comp.brad.ac.uk,
Tel.: +44-1274-233941, Fax: +44-1274-233920). 

=============================================================================
NOTE
---- 

Selected extended papers, subject to peer review, from the last QNETs
Workshop (Ilkey, 1995) have appeared in a special issue of Annals of
Operations Research, on "Queueing Networks with Blocking", Vol. 79,
Baltzer Science Publishers, 409 pages, March 1998.

The contents of this volume together with earlier relevant publications
and information relating to QNETs 2000 Workshop can be found at
<http://www.scm.brad.ac.uk/Events/QNETS2000> (QNETs 2000 official
Web).