Tuesday 8:30_10:00

Session 1: Keynote Address
Computer Aided Tools for Planning and Design of the Optical Internet 
Hussein T. Mouftah, Queen's University, Canada

Tuesday 10:30_12:00

Session 2: Scheduling
Organizer: Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Thoretical Framework for Optimal Scheduling
Hakan Lennerstad, Lars Lundberg, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden

Scheduling Job Classes in a Distributed System
Helen D. Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Isaac D. Scherson, University of California - Irvine, USA

A General Purpose Discrete Event Simulator
Luis Miguel Campos, Fabricio Silva, University of California - Irvine, USA

User-Level Traffic Management and Scheduling in Multiple Service Networks
Saadullah Tareen, Taieb Znati, Martin Weiss, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Tuesday 1:30_3:00

Session 3: Object-Oriented Models and Architectures

Open CORBA Benchmarking
Petr Tuma, Adam Buble, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

An Empirical Analysis of the Performance of CORBA and Java RMI: Distributed Open Object Architectures for Internet Based Applications
Sanjay Ahuja, Renato Quintao, Srikanth Basavanahally, University of North Florida, USA

A Component Model for Object-Oriented Queuing Networks and Its Integration in a Design Technique for Performance Models
Nunzio-Nicoló Savino-Vázquez, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela
Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

An Object Model of the OSI Reference Model
Rasha Morsi, James Leathrum, Old Dominion University, USA

Tuesday 3:30_5:00

Plenary Panel Session:
Telecommunications Systems and Networks: Trends and Challenges
Organizer: Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA
Panelists:
Fabio M. Chiussi, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA
Franco Davoli, University of Genoa, Italy
John Fox, Motorola, UK
Erole Gelenbe, University of Central Florida, USA
Hussein Mouftah, Queen's University, Canada