Call for Papers
The goal of the SPEC International Performance Evaluation Workshop 2008 is to bridge
the gap between theory and practice in the field of system performance evaluation by providing
a forum for sharing ideas and experiences between industry and academia. The workshop will
bring together researchers and industry practitioners to share and present their experiences,
discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research in all aspects of
performance evaluation. The workshop is co-located with and will take place immediately after a
SPEC meeting which will be attended by numerous representatives from across the hardware
and software industry. This will provide a unique opportunity for researchers to meet with
industry practitioners. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Benchmarking
- Performance metrics and benchmark suites
- Benchmarking methodologies
- Development of parameterizable, flexible benchmarks
- Evaluating energy efficiency
- Use of benchmarks in industry and academia
Workload Characterization and Experimental Performance Evaluation
- Performance measurement and monitoring techniques
- Workload characterization techniques
- Application tracing and profiling
- Performance tuning and optimization techniques
- Experimental design
- Tools for performance testing, measurement, profiling and tuning
Performance-Oriented Design and Development
- Software performance engineering
- Performance patterns and anti-patterns
- Early cycle performance prediction
- Quantitative extensions of design-oriented models
- Component-based software performance engineering
- System sizing and capacity planning techniques
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Performance Modeling and Analysis
- Modeling formalisms
- Analytical, simulation and statistical modeling methodologies
- Model validation and calibration techniques
- Use of models for online performance prediction
- Modeling and analysis tools
Performance Case Studies in the Areas of
- Parallel and distributed systems
- Service-oriented architectures (SOA)
- Web services
- Enterprise middleware (Java EE, .NET)
- Message-oriented middleware
- Event-based systems
- Web-based systems, e-business
- Cluster and grid computing environments
- High-performance computing
- Virtualization platforms
- Communication networks
- Peer-to-peer systems
- Mobile and wireless systems
- (Wireless) sensor networks
- Real-time and multimedia systems
- Embedded systems
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Important Dates
- Paper Submission: March 24, 2008
- Author Notification: April 17, 2008
- Final Manuscript due: April 29, 2008
- Student Grant Applications: May 18, 2008
Further Information
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