CALL FOR PAPERS

The PERFORMANCE 2005 conference solicits papers on the development and application of state-of-the-art analytic, simulation, and measurement-based performance evaluation techniques. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Performance-oriented design and evaluation of: communication networks, mobile and wireless systems, Internet servers and E-commerce systems, Web services, Web architectures, peer-to-peer systems, grid computing, computer architectures, database systems, operating systems, software systems, distributed systems, multimedia systems, file and I/O systems, memory systems, real-time systems, and fault-tolerant systems.
• Techniques and algorithms: analytic modeling, performance optimization, queueing analysis, stochastic scheduling, model verification and validation, power analysis, hybrid models, experimental design, system or network measurement and monitoring, workload characterization, simulation, and statistical analysis.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Papers: Papers should not exceed 22 double-spaced pages including figures, tables and references. PERFORMANCE 2005 does not use a double-blind review process, authors should put their last names and affiliations on their papers. A limited number of submitted papers will be accepted for a poster session. Submissions must be made electronically as Postscript or Adobe PDF files through the Conference Web site. In case of problems, please send papers by email to papers.perf2005(at)sophia.inria.fr. Papers will be selected on the basis of their originality, technical standards, relevance and clarity. Full papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal Performance Evaluation (Elsevier) available at the conference.

Tutorial sessions: Tutorial proposals, not exceeding 3 pages, have to include title, abstract, duration (1H30 or 3H), intended audience, assumed background of attendees, name, affiliation and a biographical sketch of the instructors. Proposals should be sent to the tutorials chairs at tutorials.perf2005(at)sophia.inria.fr.

IMPORTANT DATES

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