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 Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished work for possible presentation at the conference. Papers are solicited in fields that include the following:

-Power/Performance Evaluation methodologies
Analytical modeling
Statistical approaches
Tracing and profiling tools
Simulation techniques
Hardware (e.g., FPGA) accelerated simulation
Hardware performance counter architectures
Power/Temperature/Variability/Reliability models for computer systems
Micro-benchmark based hardware analysis techniques

-Power/Performance analysis
o Metrics
o Bottleneck identification and analysis
o Visualization

-Power/Performance analysis of commercial and experimental hardware
o General-purpose microprocessors
o Multi-threaded, multi-core and many-core architectures
o Accelerators and graphics processing units
o Embedded and mobile systems
o Enterprise systems and data centers
o Supercomputers
o Computer networks

-Power/Performance analysis of emerging workloads and software
Software written in managed languages
Virtualization and consolidation workloads
Internet-sector workloads
Embedded, multimedia, games, telepresence
Bioinformatics, life sciences, security, biometrics

-Application and system code tuning and optimization
-Confirmations or refutations of important prior results


In addition to research papers, we also welcome tool papers. The conference is an ideal forum to publicize new tools to the community. Tool papers will be judged primarily on their potentially wide impact and use than on their research contribution. Tools in any of the above fields of interest are eligible.


Important Dates

Paper Abstract submissions due: September 21, 2012
Full submissions due: September 28, 2012 (No extensions)
Rebuttal: November 21-23, 2012
Notification of acceptance: December 10, 2012
Final paper due: January 27, 2013