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Call for Papers
1988 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on
Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
May 24-27, 1988
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Performance modeling is a fundamental part of designing and understanding
the behavior of computer systems. The ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on
Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems is a forum for presenting
state-of-the-art work that studies computer system design and usage
through the application of performance measurement and modeling
techniques. Contributions that advance the state of the art through
the development of new performance evaluation techniques, or that further
our understanding of existing techniques are also welcome.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Representing and Evaluating the Performance of:
Distributed systems Communication networks
Parallel processing Interconnection networks
Supercomputing Computer or chip architectures
Database systems I/O systems
Software performance engineering Reliability & fault tolerance
Techniques and Algorithms for:
Workload characterization Timed & stochastic Petri nets
Software performance prediction Graph models
Model verification & validation Solutions for queueing network models
Simulation & statistical analysis Queueing theory
Software for performance analysis
Practical, original case studies
Performance expert systems
Paper publication is very competitive; usually less that 25% of paper
submissions are accepted. We wish to increase participation in 1988
while preserving the traditional quality. Thus, we will provide our
referee criteria in advance to prospective authors. We will also be
accepting a limited number of papers for a poster session, and we are
soliciting proposals from prospective instructors for pre-conference
tutorials. For more information, contact the committee listed below.
Proceedings will be published as a special issue of the SIGMETRICS
Performance Evaluation Review. Papers of exceptional merit will be
forwarded to an appropriate journal for possible publication.
Important Dates:
July, 1987 - paper abstract submission
Sep 30, 1987 - paper submission deadline & tutorial proposal deadline
Oct 30, 1987 - poster session extended abstracts submission deadline
Dec 22, 1987 - author notification
Jan 31, 1988 - camera ready copy due
Abstracts should be less than 1 page; extended abstracts for the poster
session and tutorial proposals should be 3-5 pages; and papers should be
limited to 20 pages. Author identification (including a net address, if
available) should appear on a separate cover sheet but not within the
paper itself. Electronic submission of abstracts, extended abstracts,
and tutorial proposals is acceptable. Six copies are required for materials
not electronically submitted. Submit materials (appropriately designated)
to the Program Chairman:
Kenneth C. Sevcik
Computer Science Department
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M5S 1A4
kcs%csri.toronto.edu@csnet-relay.arpa
General Chairman: Connie U. Smith (L&S Computer Technology; cus%a@lanl.gov.arpa)
Program Committee includes:
Y. Bard (IBM Scientific Center)
I. Bucher (Los Alamos Nat. Lab.; iyb@lanl.gov.arpa)
J. Buzen (BGS Systems)
L. Cabrera (IBM, Amaden Res. Ctr.; cabrera@ibm-sj)
P. Heidelberger (IBM, T. J. Watson Research Center; berger@ibm.com.arpa)
T. Keller (MCC; keller@mcc.com.arpa)
J. Meyer (Univ. of Michigan)
D. Neuse (Information Research Associates)
G. Serazzi (Univ. of Pavia)
W. Stewart (North Carolina State Univ.)
D. Towsley ( Univ. of Massachusetts)
S. Tripathi (Univ. of Maryland; tripathi@mimsy.umd.edu.arpa)
J. Zahorjan (Univ. of Washington; zahorjan@uw-samar.arpa)
Conference Committee:
I. Bucher (Los Alamos Nat. Lab.) R. Koskela (Los Alamos Nat. Lab.)
L. Cabrera (IBM, Almaden Rsrch. Cntr.) K. Sevcik (Univ. of Toronto)
B. Gaither (Gould) E. Williams (Los Alamos Nat. Lab.)
S. Harris (Los Alamos Nat. Lab.) B. Yantis (Los Alamos Nat. Lab.)
T. Keller (MCC)
The conference committee may be contacted at: sigmetrics@lanl.gov.arpa
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