[Acpc-l] Reminder: ISPASS-2001

Tilman Wolf wolf@ccrc.wustl.edu
Tue, 29 May 2001 09:35:19 -0500 (CDT)


[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this reminder.]

This is a reminder that the deadline for paper submission to 
ISPASS 2001 is June 4th (plus automatic 1-week extension).

                         
                         ISPASS 2001
                         
   IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of
                    Systems and Software
                    
                     November 4-6, 2001
                       Tucson, Arizona
                       
                      http://ispass.org
                              
                       Call for Papers
                       ---------------

The IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of
Systems and Software provides a forum for sharing advanced
and well-established academic and industrial R&D work
focused on performance analysis in the design of systems and
software. Authors are invited to submit previously
unpublished work for possible presentation at this
conference. All accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings. In addition to regular research
papers, we encourage the submission of tutorial or survey
papers from established R&D groups. All submitted papers
will be reviewed by the program committee prior to a
decision about acceptance.

Performance Analysis and Workload Characterization define
the main theme of this conference.  Two example focus areas
of interest this year are: web-enabled systems & software
and real-time systems & software. In addition, systems and
software related to general and other special-purpose data
processing remain of interest and relevance to this
symposium. Topics include, but are not limited to:

Performance Analysis and Workload Characterization:
* Analytical models for performance prediction
* Simulation-based modeling techniques
* Speed-accuracy tradeoffs in modeling hierarchies
* Use of parallel processing to speed up simulation
* Power/energy aware modeling and evaluation
* Model validation and testing; defect coverage issues
* Performance analysis of processors and systems:
  - Special interest in newer processor/system paradigms
  - Particular emphasis on memory hierarchy and networks
* Performance and scalability analysis of multiprocessor
  systems
* Measurement and analysis of real systems; case studies
* Compiler and operating system issues in performance
  analysis
* Quantitative workload behavior characterization
* Analytical modeling of workload behavior
* Characterization of emerging applications:
  - Java, mobile/pervasive computing, web-serving
  - Multimedia/DSP, cryptographic/security applications
  - Data mining and specialized database search applications
  - Medical, biological, genetic analysis, search & decision
    apps
* Characterization of multiprocessor applications
* Multithreaded workload characterization
* Energy content, characterization and tuning of workloads
* Trace collection, sampling and validation issues, methods
* Benchmarking and micro-benchmarking issues, methods

Special Focus Areas:
* Web-enabled Systems and Software:
  - Architectures for web-enabled multi-tier systems;
    evaluation
  - Web throughput measurement tools and techniques
  - Scalability of web-enabled systems: evaluation, testing
  - Reliability modeling, measurement and prediction
  - Modeling and analysis of rapidly evolving systems

* Real-Time Systems and Software:
  - Scheduling disciplines; performance evaluation methods
  - Language issues: e.g. real-time Java and garbage
    collection
  - Middleware, e.g. real-time CORBA, DCOM, Jini
  - Operating systems kernel issues
  - Development methodologies and tools

Submission Instructions
-----------------------
Papers of no more than 20 double-spaced pages, including
figures, are solicited. The cover page of each submitted
paper should include paper title, brief abstract, list of
keywords, full names of authors, affiliations, complete
addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses.

Authors are requested to submit papers in Postscript or PDF
format. Instructions for electronic submissions are
available at:
http://ispass.org/submit.html

Deadlines
---------
Submission deadline:        June 4, 2001 (plus automatic 
                                          1-week extension)
Acceptance decision:     August 15, 2001
Final version:       September  21, 2001

Organizing Committee
--------------------
General Chair: Jo Dale Carothers, Univ. of Arizona
Technical Program Chair: Pradip Bose, IBM Research
Finance Chair: Nadeem Malik, IBM
Web and Publicity Co-Chair: David Brooks, Princeton Univ.
Web and Publicity Co-Chair: Tilman Wolf, Washington Univ.
Tutorials Chair: Kathy Jackson, IBM
Registration Chair: Nasr Ullah, Motorola

Technical Program Committee
---------------------------
Pradip Bose, IBM Watson; Chair
Dave Albonesi, Univ. of Rochester
Todd Austin, Univ. of Michigan
Bryan Black, Intel Corp.
David Brooks, Princeton Univ.
Doug Burger, Univ. of Texas
Tom Conte, NC State Univ.
Antonio Gonzalez, UPC Barcelona
Lizy John, Univ. of Texas
Dave Kaeli, Northeastern Univ.
Peter Magnusson, virtutech
Margaret Martonosi, Princeton Univ.
Andrew Moshovos, Northwestern University
Jude Rivers, IBM Watson.
Shubu Mukherjee, Compaq Corp.
Kevin Skadron, Univ. of Virginia
Mark Timmerman, Dedicated Sys. Experts
Nasr Ullah, Motorola