[e2e] SIGMETRICS 2005 - CFP

[Jussara Marques de Almeida]

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CALL FOR PAPERS


ACM SIGMETRICS 2005
International Conference on Measurement & Modeling of Computer Systems
Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS

June 6-10, 2005, Banff, Canada
http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/conference/sigmetrics2005

The ACM SIGMETRICS conference solicits papers on the development and 
application of state-of-the-art, broadly-applicable analytic, simulation,
and measurement-based performance evaluation techniques. Of particular 
interest is work that furthers the state-of-the-art in performance evaluation
methods, or those that creatively apply previously developed methods to
understand or to gain important insights into key design trade-offs in 
complex computer/communication systems. Topics of interest include, but 
are not limited to:

      - Performance-oriented design and evaluation studies of: communication
        networks, Internet servers, computer architectures, database systems,
        operating systems, distributed systems, multimedia systems, file and
        I/O subsystems, memory systems, real-time systems, and fault-tolerant
        systems.

      - Performance methodology techniques and algorithms for: analytic
        modeling, system measurement and monitoring, model verification and
        validation, workload characterization, simulation, statistical 
        analysis, stochastic modeling including queues and Petri nets,
        experimental design, reliability analysis, performance optimization,
        and hybrid models.


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

PAPERS:
Papers should not exceed 20 double-spaced pages including figures and tables. 
Papers must be submitted electronically in printable postscript or pdf form; 
for detailed submission instructions, refer to the above URL. All submissions 
will be reviewed using a double-blind review process. The identity of authors 
and referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure blind reviewing, 
authors' names and affiliations should not appear in the paper; bibliographic 
references should be made in such a way as to preserve author anonymity.

HOT TOPIC SESSIONS: 
Proposals are solicited for a hot topic session, in which a group of speakers 
will present and discuss their recent results in an area. Send proposals to 
the program chairs, identifying the organizer of the session, the session 
title, three to five speakers, the titles of their talks, and a short abstract 
of each talk.

WORKSHOPS: 
One or more workshops will immediately precede the conference. Send proposals
of no more than 1-2 pages to the general chairs. Include the proposed title, 
brief description of topics, intended audience, and membership of workshop 
organizing committee. Postscript or pdf is preferred.

TUTORIALS: 
A series of tutorials will immediately precede the conference. Send proposals 
of no more than 1-2 pages for 90 minute or 3 hours tutorials to the tutorials
chair. Include the proposed title, brief description of material, intended 
audience, assumed background of attendees, and the name, affiliation, contact 
information (email & phone) and brief biography of speaker(s). Postscript or
pdf is preferred.


IMPORTANT DATES (tentative):

            October 22, 2004:    Abstract registration.
            October 29, 2004:    Submission of papers, hot topic proposals, 
                                 workshops and tutorial proposals.
            January 28, 2005:    Notification of acceptance.


ORGANIZATION:

General Chairs:   Derek Eager 
                  University of Saskatchewan 
                  eager at cs.usask.ca

                  Carey Williamson
                  University of Calgary
                  carey at cpsc.ucalgary.ca

Program Chairs:   Sem Borst
                  Bell Labs and CWI 
                  sem at research.bell-labs.com or sem.borst at cwi.nl

                  John C. S. Lui
                  The Chinese University of Hong Kong
                  cslui at cse.cuhk.edu.hk

Tutorial Chairs:  Kimberly Keeton
                  HP Labs
                  kkeeton at hpl.hp.com
                
                  Vishal Misra
                  Columbia University
                  misra at cs.columbia.edu


The complete conference and program committees can be found at the above URL.