The 3rd Workshop on Optics and Computer Science


		Advance Program

Open Remarks by Program Chair (8:50 - 9:00 AM)

Session 1 (9:00 - 10:30 AM)

Pipelined versus non-pipelined traffic scheduling in undirectional WDM ring networks
	X. Zhang and C. Qiao
	SUNY at Buffalo, USA


NWCache: Optimizing Disk Accesses via an Optical Network/Write Cache Hybrid
	Enrique V. Carrera and Ricardo Bianchini
	UFRJ Centro de Tecnologia, Brazil


A multi-wavelength optical content-addressable parallel processor (MW-OCAPP)
for high-speed parallel relational database processing:
Architectural concepts and preliminary experimental system
	P. Y. Choo, A. Detofsky, and A. Louri,
	The Univ. of Arizona



Session 2 (11:00 AM - 12:30 PM)

High speed, high capacity bused interconnects using optical slab waveguides
	Martin Feldman, Ramachandran Vaidyanathan, and Ahmed El-Amawy
	Louisiana State University,


Solving graph theory problems using reconfigurable pipelined optical buses
	Keqin Li, Yi Pan, and Mounir Hamdi
	State University of New York
	University of Dayton
	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology


OTIS-Based Multi-Hop Multi-OPS Lightwave Networks
	D. Coudert, A. Ferreira and X. Munoz
	CNRS-I3S-INRIA, FRANCE



Lunch (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)



Session 3 (1:30 - 3:30 PM)

Optimal Scheduling Algorithms in WDM Optical Passive Star Networks
	Hong-Jin Yeh, Kyubum Wee, and Manpyo Hong
	Ajou University


NetCache: A Network/Cache Hybrid for Multiprocessors
        Enrique V. Carrera and Ricardo Bianchini
        UFRJ Centro de Tecnologia, Brazil


A new architecture for multi-hop optical networks
	A. Jaekel, S. Bandyopadhyay
	University of Windsor, Canada


Permutation Routing in  All-Optical Product Networks
	Weifa Liang and Xiaojun Shen,
	Australian National University and University of Missouri

Free Discussions (3:30 PM - 4:00 PM)