From: schwartz@latour.cs.colorado.edu (Michael Schwartz)
Subject: CFP: Workshop on Resource Discovery - Principles and Practice
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: cu
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 17:33:42 GMT
Expires: Mon, 18 May 1992 07:00:00 GMT


                                CALL FOR PAPERS
          Workshop on Resource Discovery - Principles and Practice

                              Held as Part of the
                     1992 IFIP International Conference on
             Upper Layer Protocols, Architectures and Applications

                              May 27 to 29, 1992
                    (Workshop to be held May 28, 2:00-5:30)
                        University of British Columbia
                               Vancouver, Canada

                                 Sponsored By:
                            IFIP Working Group 6.5

                                  Hosted By:
               University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
                                      and
                        OSIWARE Inc., Vancouver, Canada


In recent years, the problems of resource discovery and directory
service have become increasingly important topics in large networks.
This workshop will address both theoretical and practical aspects of
resource discovery systems.  The objective is to identify issues,
discuss techniques, and present work in progress.  The topics that will
be addressed include, but are not limited to:

        - directory, management, and publishing service architectures
	- theoretical models for information organization and search
	- proposed taxonomies for information organization
	- service discovery techniques
	- naming and uniquely identifying resources
	- resource version management
        - building resource views
	- attribute representation
	- managing resource archives and libraries
	- standardization efforts
        - privacy and security of directory contents; user rights and
          expectations
        - techniques for automatically extracting attributes from
          information resources
        - techniques for distributing and caching data to improve
          performance without degrading search capabilities
        - search algorithms and optimizations
	- commercialization issues
	- dealing with dynamic/timely data
	- user interface support
        - measurements and feasibility studies of resource discovery
          systems

Please submit a one page position paper together with the address,
e-mail address, and telephone and fax numbers of the contact author, to
the program chair before May 18, 1992.  Papers can be submitted either
electronically (either in plain ASCII or PostScript) or on paper:

	Prof. Michael Schwartz
	Department of Computer Science, CB 430
	University of Colorado
	Boulder, CO  80309
	Voice: (303) 492-3902
	Fax:   (303) 492-2844
	schwartz@cs.colorado.edu

Preprints of the position papers will be distributed to the participants
at the Workshop.

Participants are expected to be actively working in this area.

Participants must register for the conference.  The registration
information follows.

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                          ANNOUNCEMENT

                    IFIP International Conference
                               on
       UPPER LAYER PROTOCOLS, ARCHITECTURES AND APPLICATIONS

                         May 27-29, 1992
	             (Tutorials : May 25-26)

                 University of British Columbia
                        Vancouver, Canada

                          Sponsored by:
                     IFIP Working Group 6.5

                           Hosted by:
                          OSIware Inc.
                 University of British Columbia

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

The conference will provide an international forum for the exchange of
information on the technical, economic, and social impacts and experiences
with upper layer protocols, architectures and distributed applications. The
format of the conference will be two and a half days of conference paper
presentations and one half a day of workshops.

Papers presented at the conference will cover the following areas :

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| - Design, implementation, and experience with distributed applications      |
| - Application layer user agent models and designs                           |
| - Application layer architectures                                           |
| - Application layer programming environments                                |
| - Application communication protocols such as RPC, RO, RTS and multicast    |
| - Group communication models and services                                   |
| - Multimedia applications and communications                                |
| - Interconnection of upper layer and application entities                   |
| - Upper layer conformance and interoperability testing activities           |
| - Security and privacy                                                      |
| - Management and operation of distributed services                          |
| - Mobile communications and the application layer protocols                 |
| - Upper layer network management and naming                                 |
| - Presentation and session layer issues                                     |
| - Abstract syntax notations and transfer syntaxes                           |
| - The impact of very high-speed networking on the upper layers protocols    |
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Workshops are being planned on Security, Mail System Management, High
Speed Networking Implications for Application Layer Protocols, Resource
Discovery, and Dialup Transport for Local Loops Service.

TUTORIAL HIGHLIGHTS

A comprehensive tutorial program will be held on the two days preceding the
conference. The following tutorials will be given :

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|              Practical Perspectives on OSI Networking                       |
|                          Marshall T. Rose                                   |
|                                                                             |
|               OSI Security Techniques and Standards                         |
|                            Warwick Ford                                     |
|                                                                             |
|    OSF's Distributed Computing Environment (DCE): Concepts and Protocols    |
|                           David Chappell                                    |
|                                                                             |
|Secure Communication Using X.500 Services for X.400 and Privacy Enhanced Mail|
|                          James M. Galvin                                    |
|                                                                             |
|                X.400 / X.500 - Where are we Today ?                         |
|                           Erik Skovgaard                                    |
|                                                                             |
|                               ASN.1                                         |
|                           Bancroft Scott                                    |
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Conference Co-Chairs      Program Co-Chairs         Organizing Committee Chair

Einar Stefferud (US)      Gerald Neufeld (CA)       Neil Koorland (CA)
Christian Huitema (FR)    Bernhard Plattner (CH)

                          Program Committee

Jun Adachi (JP)           Erik Huizer (NL)          Peter Schicker (CH)
Raj Ananthanpillai (US)   Neil Koorland (CA)        Einar Stefferud (US)
Gregor Bochmann (CA)      Hannes Lubich (CH)        Mike Schwartz (US)
David Chappell (US)       James McHugh (US)         Marshall Rose (US)
Frank Ferrante (US)       Manuel Medina (ES)        Douglas Terry (US)
James M. Galvin (US)      Barbara Nelson (US)       Pedro Veiga (PT)
Ruediger Grimm (DE)       Juan Saras (ES)           Brian Wideen (CA)
Christian Huitema (FR)

INFORMATION and REGISTRATION

A complete conference and tutorial information and registration package can
be requested by completing and returning the form below :

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Name____________________________________________________________
          Last                       First              Middle

Organization____________________________________________________

Street__________________________________________________________

City ___________________ State/Country __________ Zip/Code______

Phone ______________________  FAX ______________________________

Email ______________________________

Please note that attendance is limited.  Would you like to reserve a space
at no obligation?

YES. Please reserve a space subject to later confirmation by me    _______

NO. But send me the registration package while I decide            _______

Return via mail, email, or fax to :

                   IFIP '92 Conference
                   c/o OSIWARE Inc., Suite 200
                   4370 Dominion St
                   Burnaby, B.C., CANADA   V5G 4L7

                   Internet: ifip92@vancouver.osiware.bc.ca
	           Fax:      +1-604-436-3192

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