hds@mcc.com (Herb Schwetman) (06/07/89)
CALL FOR PAPERS
1990 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling
of Computer Systems
May 22-25, 1990 Boulder, Colorado, USA
Performance and reliability evaluation are fundamental
to designing and understanding computer systems. This
conference is a forum for presenting state-of-the-art work
that studies computer system design through the application
of measurement, modeling, and simulation techniques. New
techniques, extensions to existing techniques, and practical
original case studies are welcome. This year, as reflected
in the composition of the program committee, we would par-
ticularly like to encourage papers from researchers who are
developing or applying quantitative methods in a variety of
subdisciplines of computer science. Topics of interest
include: Characterizing the behavior and evaluating the per-
formance or reliability of:
o Parallel systems
o System or chip architectures
o Distributed systems
o Memory systems
o Supercomputers
o File and I/O systems
o Database systems
o Operating systems
o Communication networks and protocols
o Software systems
o Interconnection networks
o Fault-tolerant systems
Techniques and algorithms for:
o System measurement
o Workload characterization
o Graph models, timed and stochastic petri nets
o Software and algorithm performance prediction
o Queueing network models
o Model verification and validation
o Simulation and statistical analysis
o Expert systems for performance evaluation
Paper publication is very competitive; usually less than 25%
of submissions are accepted. All papers will be refereed by
members of the program committee who are most familiar with
the subtopic and by outside referees. We will also accept a
limited number of papers for a poster session. We solicit
proposals for pre-conference tutorials from prospective
instructors. For more information contact either chairman
below.
The conference 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 dead-
lines:
o July 31, 1989 - paper abstract submission
o September 15, 1989 - paper and tutorial proposal submission deadline
o December 20, 1989 - author notification
o January 31, 1990 - camera-ready copy due
Abstracts should be less than 1 page; tutorial proposals
should be 1-2 pages; papers should be less than 20 doub-
lespaced pages. Author identification including affilia-
tion, address (physical and electronic), and phone number
should appear on a separate cover sheet and not within the
paper itself. Paper abstracts and tutorial proposals may be
submitted electronically; six (6) copies are required for
full paper submissions.
Submit abstracts and papers to the Program
Chair:
Prof. Mary K. Vernon
Computer Sciences Department
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1210 West Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706
vernon@cs.wisc.edu
Submit tutorial proposals to the Tutorial Chair:
Prof. Rick Bunt
Dept. of Computational Science
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SASK S7N 0W0
bunt%skorpio.usask.ca@cunyvm.cuny.edu
General Chair: Gary J. Nutt, University of Colorado at
Boulder (nutt@boulder.colorado.edu)
Program Chair: Mary K. Vernon, University of Wisconsin-
Madison (vernon@cs.wisc.edu)
Program Committee:
O. Babaoglu (Univ. of Bologna)
E. D. Lazowska (Univ. of Washington)
G. Balbo (Univ. di Torino)
M. L. Molle (Univ. of Toronto)
M. J. Carey (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)
R. R. Muntz (UCLA)
D. W. Clark (Digital Equipment Corporation)
D. Nicol (College of Wm.and Mary)
J. B. Dugan (Duke Univ.)
S. Owicki (DEC Systems Research Ctr.)
A. Goyal (IBM T. J. Watson Research Ctr.)
S. Tripathi (Univ. of Maryland)
U. Herzog (Univ. Erlangen-Nurnberg)
D. Vrsalovic (CMU)
M. A. Holliday (Duke Univ.)
J. Zahorjan (Univ. of Washington)
C. P. Kruskal (Univ. of Maryland)
S. Zhou (Univ. of Toronto)
S. S. Lavenberg (IBM T. J. Watson Res. Ctr.)
W. Zwaenepoel (Rice Univ.)
Conference Committee:
R. Bunt (Univ. of Saskatchewan)
H. Schwetman (MCC)
A. Glew (Motorola Inc.)
K. W. Switzer (AT&T Info. Systems)
M. K. Molloy (Hewlett Packard)
S. Zhou (Univ. of Toronto)
The conference committee may be contacted at:
sigmetrics90@boulder.colorado.edu