The workshop focuses on three remarkably persistent topics in computer systems research: caching, coherence and consistency. For a long time these topics were associated with parallel and distributed systems only. More recently, caching, coherence and consistency issues are being revisited in the context of mobile computing and the world-wide web. Our goal with this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers from all of these communities to present and exchange ideas on these three topics. Thus, we intend this workshop to cover a range of domains, from more traditional ones such as hardware and software cache coherence schemes and multiprocessor memory consistency models, to coherence and consistency issues in file systems and mobile data, to content caching and consistency issues in replicated data and services on the web. This workshop can be seen as a continuation of the WSDSM workshops that were held in conjunction with the last two ICS conferences but with an extended scope and addressing a significantly broader audience.

• Caching in uniprocessors
• Caching, coherence and consistency in shared-memory multiprocessors
• Software coherence and consistency
• Caching, coherence and consistency issues in file systems
• Caching, coherence and consistency issues in clusters
• Mobile data coherence and consistency
• Client, proxy and server-side caches of web content
• Data and service replication on the web
• Coherence and consistency over wide-area networks

Authors are invited to submit 5-page extended abstracts that demonstrate original and unpublished research in the areas of data caching, coherence, and consistency. Abstracts should be emailed to wc3@cs.rutgers.edu in postscript or pdf format. Accepted papers can be up to 10 pages long and will be published by the workshop. One of the authors will be required to attend the workshop and present the work.

May  08, 2001: Extended abstracts due. (extended from May 01)
May  22, 2001: Notification sent to authors. (extended from May 15)
June 08, 2001: Camera-ready papers due. (extended from June 01)

9:15 -- 10:35 Session 1: Web Caching and Embedded and Mobile Systems

• "Evaluating Cooperative Web Caching Protocols for Emerging Network Technologies" by C. Lindermann and O. Waldhorst (Univ. of Dortmund)
• "The Effectivenes of Cache Coherence Implemented on the Web" by F. Doswell, M. Abrams, and S. Varadarajan (Virginia Tech)
• "A Source Level Optimization Technique to Improve Cache Exploitation in Embedded Systems" by S. Bartolini and C. Prete (Univ. di Pisa)
• "CONCA: An Architecture for Consistent Nomadic Content Access" by W. Shi and V. Karamcheti (New York Univ.)

10:50 -- 12:10 Invited Talk