[TYPES/announce] ICPE 2017 - 1st Call for Papers

[Andrea Rosa]

                                       ICPE 2017
8th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering

       Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS, SIGSOFT, and SPEC RG

                                    L'Aquila, Italy
                                 April 22-26, 2017

                          https://icpe2017.spec.org/

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IMPORTANT DATES

Research and Industrial / Experience Abstracts:
Sep 23, 2016
Research and Industrial / Experience Papers:
Sep 30, 2016
Research and Industrial / Experience Paper Notification:
Nov 18, 2016

Work-in-Progress/Vision Papers:
Nov 25, 2016

Workshop Proposals:
Nov 05, 2016
Workshop Proposal Notification:
Nov 19, 2016

Dates for tutorials, posters and demos will be announced.

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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. Nowadays, complex systems of all types, like Web-based systems, data centers and cloud infrastructures, social networks, peer-to-peer, mobile and wireless systems, cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things, real-time and embedded systems, have increasingly distributed and dynamic system architectures that provide high flexibility, however, also increase the complexity of managing end-to-end application performance.
ICPE brings together researchers and industry practitioners to share and present their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on performance engineering of software and systems, including performance measurement, modeling, benchmark design, and run-time performance management. The focus is both on classical metrics such as response time, throughput, resource utilization, and (energy) efficiency, as well as on the relationship of such metrics to other system properties including but not limited to scalability, elasticity, availability, reliability, and security.

This year's main theme is cost-effective performance engineering, where cost has a wide interpretation including measures such as effort and energy in addition to traditional performance measures.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Performance modeling of software
* Languages and ontologies
* Methods and tools
* Relationship/integration/tradeoffs with other QoS attributes
* Analytical, simulation and statistical modeling methodologies
* Model validation and calibration techniques
* Automatic model extraction
* Performance modeling and analysis tools

Performance and software development processes/paradigms
* Software performance patterns and anti-patterns
* Software/performance tool interoperability (models and data interchange formats)
* Performance-oriented design, implementation and configuration management
* Software Performance Engineering and Model-Driven Development
* Gathering, interpreting and exploiting software performance annotations and data
* System sizing and capacity planning techniques
* (Model-driven) Performance requirements engineering
* Relationship between performance and architecture
* Collaboration of development and operation (DevOps) for performance
* Performance and agile methods
* Performance in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA)
* Performance of micro-service architectures and containers

Performance measurement, monitoring and analysis
* Performance measurement and monitoring techniques
* Analysis of measured application performance data
* Application tracing and profiling
* Workload characterization techniques
* Experimental design
* Tools for performance testing, measurement, profiling and tuning

Benchmarking
* Performance metrics and benchmark suites
* Benchmarking methodologies
* Development of parameterizable, flexible benchmarks
* Benchmark workloads and scenarios
* Use of benchmarks in industry and academia

Run-time performance management
* Use of models at run-time
* Online performance prediction
* Autonomic resource management
* Utility-based optimization
* Capacity management

Power and performance, energy efficiency
* Power consumption models and management techniques
* Tradeoffs between performance and energy efficiency
* Performance-driven resource and power management

Performance modeling and evaluation in different environments and application domains
* Web-based systems, e-business, Web services
* Big data systems, data analytics systems, and other data analysis systems
* Internet of Things
* Social networks
* Cyber-physical systems
* Industrial Internet (Industry 4.0)
* Virtualization and cloud computing
* Autonomous/adaptive systems
* Transaction-oriented systems
* Communication networks
* Parallel and distributed systems
* Embedded systems
* Multi-core systems
* Cluster and grid computing environments
* High performance computing
* Event-based systems
* Real-time and multimedia systems
* Peer-to-peer, mobile and wireless systems


All other topics related to performance of software and systems.

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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 papers for
novel scientific insights, industrial and experience papers reporting on
applying performance engineering or benchmarks in practice, and
work-in-progress/vision papers for ongoing but yet interesting work.
Different acceptance criteria apply based on the expected content of the
individual contribution types.

Authors will be requested to self-classify their papers according to
topic and contribution style when submitting their papers.

Submissions to all tracks need to be uploaded to ICPE's submission system
and conform to the ACM submission format. For detailed submission
instructions, please visit: https://icpe2017.spec.org/submissions.html.

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 2017 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 of a journal.

AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings
are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks
prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects
the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.
(For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital
Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the
first day of the conference.)

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE (RESEARCH PAPERS)

Amy Apon, Clemson University
Martin Arlitt, HP Labs and University of Calgary
Alberto Avritzer, Performance Engineering Consultant
Steffen Becker, University of Technology Chemnitz
Robert Birke, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
Andre B. Bondi, Software Performance and Scalability Consulting LLC
Niklas Carlsson, Linkoping University
Lydia Y. Chen, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
Lucy Cherkasova, HP Labs
Antinisca Di Marco, Università dell'Aquila
Wilhelm Hasselbring, Kiel University
Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology
Evangelia Kalyvianaki, City University London
Samuel Kounev, University of Wuerzburg
Heiko Koziolek, ABB Corporate Research
Diwakar Krishnamurthy, University of Calgary
Patrick  Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Catalina M. Lladó, Universitat Illes Balears
Lei Lu, VMware
Andrea Marin, University of Venice
Daniel Menasce, George Mason University
Daniel S. Menasché, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro
José Merseguer, Universidad de Zaragoza
Ningfang Mi, Northeastern University
Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano
Manoj Nambiar, Tata Consultancy Services
Dorina Petriu, Carleton University
Denys Poshyvanyk, College of William and Mary
Ralf Reussner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Alma Riska, Network Appliances
Jerry Rolia, HP Labs
Rekha Singhal, Tata Consultancy Services
Mirco Tribastone, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies
Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute
Petr Tuma, Charles University
Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam
Enrico Vicario, University of Florence
Katinka Wolter, Freie Universitaet zu Berlin
Murray Woodside, Carleton University
Feng Yan, University of Nevada-Reno
Xiaoyun Zhu, Futurewei Technologies Inc

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chairs
* Walter Binder, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland
* Vittorio Cortellessa, Università dell'Aquila, Italy
Research Program Chairs
* Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
* Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, USA
Industry Program Chairs
* Meikel Poess, Oracle, USA
Tutorials Chair
* Valeria Cardellini, Università di Roma Torvergata, Italy
Workshops Chairs
* Hanspeter Mössenböck, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria
* Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
Posters and Demos Chair
* Lubomir Bulej, Charles University, Czech Republic
Awards Chairs
* Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic
* Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Canada
Local Organization Chair
* Antinisca Di Marco, Università dell'Aquila, Italy
Publicity Chairs
* Andrea Rosà, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland
* Diego Perez, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Finance Chair
* André van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart
Publication and Registration Chair
* Davide Arcelli, Università dell'Aquila, Italy
Web Site Chair
* Cathy Sandifer, SPEC, USA

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Faculty of Informatics - 2nd floor
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