Important Notice
Due to difficulties many authors are facing due to the New York, D. C. and Pennsylvania tragedies, the deadline for submission to WWC4 has been extended to Thursday Sept 20th, 10pm, CST.

Summary
Workload behavior studies are extremely important in guiding the design of computer architectures. With the proliferation of the World Wide Web, several new computer applications and programming paradigms are emerging. It is essential to understand the characteristics of these emerging workloads in order to design efficient architectures for them. This one-day workshop, sponsored by IEEE and the Technical Committee on Computer Architecture, will focus on characterization of workloads from commercial and scientific computing. The workshop welcomes submissions on characterization of web server, database, transaction processing, multimedia, Java, network, and scientific workloads. Studies focusing on abstract models for workloads are also encouraged.

Topics of Interest
Papers are solicited in all areas related to characterization of workloads (system and/or application behavior) in a variety of computing environments. Topics of interest include (but not limited to):

Workload characterization or related studies focusing on the following types of applications:
         - E-commerce
         - Web server
         - Database
         - Multimedia
         - Java
         - Network computing
         - Multiprocessor
         - Scientific
         - Operating system intensive
         - Multithreaded
Effects of Architectural Features on Workload Behavior
Abstract Modeling of Program Behavior
Machine Independent Characterization of Workloads
Memory and I/O Access Patterns
Representative Trace Generation
Profiling, Trace Collection and Validation Issues
Workload Synthesis

Submission Guidelines
Authors are requested to submit papers to:

Lizy K. John ECE Department, ENS 143 The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 ljohn@ece.utexas.edu

or

Ann Marie G. Maynard IBM-Austin Research Labs 11400 Burnet Road Austin,TX 78758 amg@us.ibm.com

Note: An automatic extension of one week is granted to all authors without request (i.e. upto Sept 14, 2001). Full papers of up to 20 pages or extended abstracts of approximately 8 pages can be submitted. Clearly describe the nature of the work, its significance and the current status of the research. Include a title page containing the title of the paper, list of authors and their affiliations, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, email addresses and the name of the corresponding author.

Author Schedule

Paper Submission:	September 7, 2001   [ Extension to Sept 20 ]
Acceptance Notified:	October 24, 2001
Final Manuscript Submission:	November 1, 2001

Organizing Committee

Program Chairs:	Lizy K. John and Ann Marie Grizzaffi Maynard
Registration Chair:	Deepu Talla and Anand Rajan
Publications Chair:	Juan Rubio and Byeong Lee
Publicity Chairs:	Ravi Bhargava and Madhavi Valluri

Program Committee

Pradip Bose	IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Craig Chase	The University of Texas at Austin
Tom Conte	North Carolina State University
Kelly Flanagan	Brigham Young University
Manoj Franklin	University of Maryland
Ravishankar Iyer	Intel Corporation
Lizy K. John	The University of Texas at Austin
David Kaeli	Northeastern University
Ann Marie Grizzaffi Maynard	IBM-Austin Research Labs
Margaret Martonosi	Princeton University
Vijaykrishnan Narayan	Penn State University
John P. Shen	Carnegie Mellon University,
	Intel Corporation
Balaram Sinharoy	IBM
Nasr Ullah	Motorola