CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ICPE 2015 6th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering A Joint Meeting of WOSP/SIPEW sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS and ACM SIGSOFT in Cooperation with SPEC Austin, Texas, USA January 31-Feb 4, 2015 http://icpe2015.ipd.kit.edu/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Research Papers CLOSED Industrial / Experience Papers CLOSED Workshop Proposals CLOSED Poster and Demo Papers CLOSED Tutorial Proposals CLOSED Work-in-Progress and Vision Papers **Nov 23, 2014 PhD Workshop **Nov 23, 2014 ** Deadline extended ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE AND TOPICS The goal of the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) is to integrate theory and practice in the field of performance engineering by providing a forum for sharing ideas and experiences between industry and academia. ICPE is a joint meeting of the ACM Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP) and the SPEC International Performance Evaluation Workshop (SIPEW). The conference brings together researchers and industry practitioners to share and present their experience, to discuss challenges, and to report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on performance engineering. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Performance methods in software development * Model-driven performance engineering * Performance modeling and prediction * Performance measurement and experimental analysis * Benchmarks (workloads, scenarios, and implementations) * Run-time performance and capacity management * Performance in cloud, virtualized, and multi-core systems * Performance and Power * Performance modeling and evaluation in other domains * All other topics related to performance Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are not being considered in another forum. A variety of contribution styles for papers are solicited including: basic and applied research, industrial experience reports, and work-in-progress/vision papers. For more details, please visit: http://icpe2015.ipd.kit.edu/call_for_papers/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs Lizy K. John, UT Austin, USA Connie U. Smith, L&S Computer Technology, Inc., USA Program Chairs Kai Sachs, SAP, Germany Catalina M. Llado, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain Industrial Chair Herb Schwetman, Oracle Labs, USA Tutorial Chair Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy Demos and Posters Chairs William Knottenbelt, Imperial College, UK Yaomin Chen, Oracle, USA PhD Workshop Chair Zhibin Yu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Workshop Chairs Jose Nelson Amaral, University of Alberta, Canada Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada Publication Chair Simona Bernardi, Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Spain Finance Chair Anoush Najarian, Mathworks, USA Publicity Chairs Amy Spellmann, The 451 Group, USA Andre van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart, Germany Registration Chairs Ram Krishnan, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Award Chairs Andre B. Bondi, Siemens Corporate Research, USA Paul V. Gratz, Texas A&M University, USA Local Organization Chair Nasr Ullah, Samsung, USA Web Chair Andre van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart, Germany Program Committee (Research Papers) Jose Nelson Amaral, University of Alberta, Canada Alberto Avritzer, Siemens Corporate Research, USA Steffen Becker, University of Paderborn, Germany Umesh Bellur, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland Anja Bog, SAP, USA Andre Bondi, Siemens Corporate Research, USA Lubomír Bulej, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Prasad Calyam, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA Lucy Cherkasova, HP Labs, USA Vittorio Cortellessa, Università di L'Aquila, Italy Wu-Chun Feng, Virginia Tech, USA Tony Field, Imperial College London, UK Karthik Ganesan, Oracle, USA Peter Harrison, Imperial College London, UK Wilhelm Hasselbring, Kiel University, Germany Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Carlos Juiz, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain Samuel Kounev, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Diwakar Krishnamurthy, University of Calgary, Canada Andrea Marin, University of Venice, Italy Daniel Menasce, George Mason University, USA José Merseguer, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Manoj Nambiar, Tata Consultancy Services, India Dorina Petriu, Carleton University, Canada Tilmann Rabl, University of Toronto, Canada Jerry Rolia, HP Labs, USA Florian Rosenberg, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Nigel Thomas, Newcastle University, UK Mirco Tribastone, University of Southampton, UK Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy Petr Tuma, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Marco Vieira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Katinka Wolter, Freie Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Canada Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware Inc., USA Program Committee (Industrial/Experience Papers) Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore Labs, USA Meikel Poess, Oracle, USA Pranay Koka, MediaTek, Taiwan Karu Sankaralingam, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Klaus Lange, Hewlett-Packard Company, USA Brian O'Krafka, SanDisk, USA Cloyce Spradling, Oracle, USA Jeff Reilly, Intel, USA Mike Tricker, Microsoft, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are not being considered in another forum. A variety of contribution styles for papers are solicited including: basic and applied research, industrial and experience reports, and work-in-progress/vision papers. Different acceptance criteria apply for each category. Authors will be requested to classify their papers according to topic and contribution style when submitting their papers. For submission instructions, please visit: http://icpe2015.ipd.kit.edu/ At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register at the full rate, attend the conference and present the paper. Presented papers will be published in the ICPE 2015 conference proceedings that will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. After the conference there will be a call for a special issue.