ACM SIGMETRICS / Performance 2009

Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems June 15-19, 2009, Seattle, Washington, USA
http://conferences.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics/2009

The joint ACM SIGMETRICS / Performance 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 presents new performance evaluation methods, or those that creatively apply previously developed methods to understand or to gain important insights into key design trade-offs in computer or network systems.

Performance is broadly construed, including considerations of speed and scalability as well as reliability, availability, and manageability of systems. We particularly encourage submissions including real world empirical studies and focusing on implementation and experimental issues.


Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Performance-oriented design and evaluation studies of: computer networks, mobile devices and wireless networks, distributed and parallel systems, file and storage systems, power management, database systems, computer architectures, operating systems, Web services, fault-tolerant systems, and language and runtime systems.
* Performance methodology techniques and algorithms for: analytic modeling, system measurement and monitoring, model verification and validation, simulation, statistical analysis, experimental design, and reliability analysis.


Important Dates

* Paper Submission: November 17, 2008 11:59pm EST (HARD deadline)
* Notification of Decision: February 9, 2009
* Conference: June 15-19, 2009


Submission Guidelines

Papers:
Papers should not exceed 12 pages double column including figures and tables in standard ACM format. All submissions will be reviewed using a double-blind review process.

Workshops:
One or more workshops will be collocated with the main conference. Send 1-2 page proposals to the general chairs. Please include the proposed title, brief description of topics, intended audience, and membership of workshop organizing committee.


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


Organizers

General Chairs

* John Douceur Microsoft Research
* Albert Greenberg Microsoft Research

Program Chairs

* Thomas Bonald Orange Labs
* Jason Nieh Columbia University

Program Committee

Marco Ajmone, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Sara Alouf, INRIA, France Martin Arlitt, HP Labs, USA Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, USA Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin, USA Samrat Bhattacharjee, University of Maryland, USA Sem Borst, Eindhoven Univ. of Tech, The Netherlands, and Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Edith Cohen, AT&T Labs, USA Mark Crovella, Boston University, USA Derek Eager, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Nick Feamster, Georgia Tech, USA Ayalvadi Ganesh, University of Bristol, UK Leana Golubchik, University of Southern California, USA Mor Harchol-Balter, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Peter Harrison, Imperial College, UK Nidhi Hegde, Orange Labs, France Charlie Hu, Purdue University, USA Alain Jean-Marie, University of Montpellier, France Ramesh Johari, Stanford University, USA Mahmut Kandemir, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Marc Lelarge, INRIA, France Zhen Liu, Nokia Research, USA John C.S. Lui, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK Carsten Lund, ATT Labs, USA Kathryn McKinley, University of Texas at Austin, USA Morley Mao, University of Michigan, USA Laurent Massoulie, Thomson Labs, France Arif Merchant, HP Labs, USA Vishal Misra, Columbia University, USA Rudesindo Nunez-Queija, CWI, The Netherlands David Olshefski, IBM Research, USA Alexandre Proutiere, Microsoft Research, UK Emilia Rosti, University of Milano, Italy Dan Rubenstein, Columbia University, USA Devavrat Shah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Sanjay Shakkottai, University of Texas at Austin, USA Prashant Shenoy, UMass Amherst, USA Anand Sivasubramaniam, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, USA Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, USA Y.C. Tay, National University of Singapore, Singapore Miklos Telek, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Patrick Thiran, EPFL, Switzerland Cathy Xia, IBM Research, USA Jia Wang, ATT Labs, USA Adam Wierman, Caltech, USA Carey Williamson, University of Calgary, Canada Jun Xu, Georgia Tech, USA Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University, USA Yuanyuan Zhou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA