The 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Internet, Technical Committee on Computer Architecture, and Technical Committee on Microprogramming and Microarchitecture.

Important Dates

Abstracts due: September 21, 2007
Full submissions due: September 28, 2007 (no extensions)
Notification of acceptance: December 17, 2007
Final version due: January 25, 2008



The IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software provides a forum for sharing advanced academic and industrial research work focused on performance analysis in the design of computer systems and software. Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished work for possible presentation at this conference. Papers are solicited in fields that include the following:

- Benchmarking
- Workload characterization
- Simulation
- Analytical models
- Statistical approaches
- Performance metrics
- Microprocessor, memory, and disk performance issues
- Multi-core, multithreaded, and multiprocessor performance issues
- Performance of computer networks
- Performance analysis of software
- Performance of data-intensive applications
- Tuning of application code
- Tuning of system code
- Tracing, profiling, and simulation tools
- Bottleneck identification
- Power and thermal modeling
- Performance validation
- Characterization of emerging applications
- Case studies
- Confirmations or refutations of important prior results



Papers of no more than 22 double-spaced pages (no less than 11pt font), including figures, are solicited. Authors are requested to submit papers in PDF format. More information will be available on the ISPASS website ( http://ispass.org ) as the submission deadline approaches.

For further information, please contact the Program or General Chair:
Program Chair

Prof. Dean Tullsen

University of California, San Diego


General Chair

Prof. Sandhya Dwarkadas

University of Rochester