CFP IPDS2000

[Gabriele Kotsis]

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Deadline for submissions to IPDS2000 is approaching: October 1, 1999!
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                                CALL FOR PAPERS

                                    IPDS 2K
      IEEE International Computer Performance and Dependability Symposium
                            http://ee.tamu.edu/IPDS/

                             A joint event with the 
                  11th International Conference on Modelling 
                                    Techniques and
                   Tools for Computer Performance Evaluation

                        Chicago, IL -- March 27-30 2000



Sponsored by:

IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Fault-Tolerant Computing

Co-sponsored by:

IFIP Working Group 7.3 on Performance Evaluation
IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance
IFIP Working Group 6.3 on Performance of Communication Systems

In cooperation with:

IBM
Motorola
The College of William and Mary
Texas A&M


OBJECTIVES

With today's convergence of parallel computers and high-speed networks, the
performance and dependability of computer systems and networks have become
closely related. Designers and analysts must consider the relationships between
the occurrence of errors/failures and their impact on performance, both in the
computer systems themselves and in the interconnections between the system's
components.

This symposium brings together academic and industrial researchers in these two
areas, with emphasis on integrating theory and practice. Relating analytical
techniques to simulations, actual measurements, and experiments will be the
broad theme of the symposium. Research and practice relating to hardware and
software issues in parallel and distributed systems and networks will be
emphasized.

Relevant topics include but are not restricted to:

Analytical/Simulation/Measurement Techniques and Fault Injection for
Performance/Dependability applied to

     Software/Hardware Systems
     Real-Time Systems
     Communication Systems
     Distributed Systems
     Parallel and Clustered Systems
     Multiprocessing Systems

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

All papers (not more than 20 pages, double-spaced, including figures) must be
submitted in electronic Postscript form to:

     Dr. Richard E. Harper
     IBM Research
     Raleigh, NC
     Email:    rick_harper@alum.mit.edu
     Tel: 919-543-0946

INDUSTRY TRACK

A special track will be devoted to contributions from industry. Researchers and
practitioners from industry are enthusiastically invited to submit their
contribution to this event. These submissions should not be longer than 8 pages,
double-spaced, including figures, and must be sent in electronic Postscript form
to Rick Harper. Please note in the submission that it is for the Industry Track.

STUDENT TRACK

Special sessions will be scheduled for 10-minute presentations of contributions
from students. Interested students should submit a one-page abstract of their
presentation to the Student Track Chair.
     Dr. Sachin Garg
     Lucent Tech., Bell Labs
     Rm. 2B-412
     600 Mountain Avenue
     Murray Hill, NJ 07974
     sgarg@research.bell-labs.com
     Phone: 908-582-3912
     Fax  : 908-582-5809


Please note in the submission that it is for the Student Track.

TUTORIALS

Half-day (4 hrs.) and full-day (8 hrs.) tutorials are planned for Thursday,
March 30, 2000. Tutorials addressing broad issues in the performance and
dependability of computer and communication systems are solicited. Those
focusing on the application of analytical and/or empirical techniques and
tools towards design, evaluation and validation of practical, real systems are
of special interest.  Please submit the proposals by September 31,
1999 to Dr. Sachin Garg. For details please see
http://www.bell-labs.com/~sgarg/TUT.htm.

IMPORTANT DATES

     Paper Submission:        October 1, 1999
     Tutorial Submission:          September 31, 1999
     Paper Acceptance Notification:      December 15, 1999
     Camera-ready Copies:     January 15, 1999

Please note: Timely submission of all papers and abstracts in electronic
Postscript form is necessary.

JOURNAL PUBLICATION

Arrangements are being made to publish expanded versions of 5 to 10 selected
papers from IPDS 2000 proceedings in a special issue of Performance Evaluation
Journal published by North-Holland.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Program Committee Chair:

     Rick Harper
     IBM Research
     rick_harper@alum.mit.edu

Program Committee Vice Chairs:

     Gwan Choi
     Texas A&M University
     gchoi@ee.tamu.edu

     Gianfranco Ciardo
     College of William and Mary
     ciardo@cs.wm.edu

Members:

A. Bobbio           University of Turin
J.A. Carrasco       Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Ph. Chimento        University of Twente
C. Constantinescu   Intel
T. M. Conte         NC State Unviersity
W.K. Fuchs          Purdue University
R. Geist            Clemson University
S. Garg             Lucent Technologies
S. Gokhale          Telcordia Technologies
B. Haverkort        RWTH Aachen
S. Hunter           IBM
R. Islam            IBM
R. Jain             The Ohio State University
J. Knight           University of Virginia
G. Kotsis           University of Vienna
K. Kwiat            AirForce Research Lab, Rome, NY
R. Marie            University of Rennes
F. Mathur           JPL
V. Mendiratta       Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
I. Mitrani          University of Newcastle
D. Muntz            UCLA
D. Nicol            Dartmouth College
D. Reed             University of Illinois at Urbana
W. Sanders          University of Illinois at Urbana
M. Segal            Telcordia Technologies
D. Siewiorek        Carnegie-Mellon University
E. Smirni           William and Mary
A.J. Smith          UC Berkeley
A. Somani           Iowa State University
D. Suggs            IBM
A. Tai              IA Tech
M. Vouk             NC State University
J. Zinchuk          Draper Laboratory