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[Heather Boyles <>]

> Announcement of the 5th International Web Caching and Content Delivery
> Workshop
>
>
> The 5th International Web Caching and Content Delivery Workshop will be
> held in
> Lisbon, Portugal from 22-24 May 2000.
>
> For the past 4 years the International Web Caching Workshop has been the major
> annual event that brings together academic researchers, industry practicioners
> and service providers who are interested in Web caching and Web performance.
> This year, the topic of the workshop has been broadened to look at the wider
> issues of content delivery, for which caching is just one mechanism.
>
> The Workshop's Programme Committee is chaired by Pei Cao and Peter Danzig.
> Programme Committee members include: Jonathan Berry, Anawat Chankhunthod,
> Martin Hamilton, 'Solom' Heddaya, Jaeyeon Jung, Ingrid Melve, Vivek Pei, Reza
> Rejaie, Wojtek Sylwestrzak and Geoff Voelker.
>
> 35 papers were submitted by the end of March 2000. The Programme Committee has
> selected 12 papers to be presented in four workshop sessions. 16 papers were
> found to be of particular interest and authors were invited to present a
> poster.
>
> In addition, a keynote speech will open the workshop, which also hosts a panel
> on Content Distribution Technologies, a BoF on Web Performance Benchmarking
> and
> a BoF on standardization issues.
>
> The Workshop programme is now available at:
>
> <http://www.terena.nl/conf/wcw/programme.html>http://www.terena.nl/conf/wcw
> /programme.html
>
>
> More information on the Workshop venue, the logistics and how to register is
> available at
>
> <http://www.terena.nl/conf/wcw>http://www.terena.nl/conf/wcw/
>
>
> Please note that the availability of hotel rooms at special reduced prices can
> be guaranteed only if you register before April 22nd.
>
>
>
> Valentino Cavalli
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> TERENA, Singel 468D, 1017 AW Amsterdam, The Netherlands
> Tel: +31 20 530 4488 Fax: +31 20 530 4499

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Heather Boyles
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