• Deadline extension - 3rd Call for Contributions: 12th ACM/SPEC Internat

    From ICPE 2021@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 13 09:08:45 2020
    The deadlines for ICPE 2020 have been extended as shown below.

    Research abstracts: Oct 9, 2020 --> 16 Okt
    Research papers: Oct 16, 2020 --> 23 Okt
    Industrial/experience abstracts: Oct 9, 2020 --> 16 Okt Industrial/experience papers: Oct 16, 2020 --> 23 Okt

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    Call for Contributions ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    ICPE 2021
    12th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering

    Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS, SIGSOFT, and SPEC RG

    Rennes, France
    April 17-23, 2021

    Web: https://icpe2021.spec.org/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ICPEconf/

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    IMPORTANT DATES

    Research abstracts: Oct 9, 2020 --> 16 Okt
    Research papers: Oct 16, 2020 --> 23 Okt
    Research paper notification: Dec 10, 2020

    Artifact registration: Dec 14, 2020
    Artifact submission: Dec 21, 2020
    Artifact notification: Feb 08, 2021

    Industrial/experience abstracts: Oct 9, 2020 --> 16 Okt
    Industrial/experience papers: Oct 16, 2020 --> 23 Okt
    Industrial/experience paper notification: Dec 11, 2020

    Workshop proposals submission: Oct 16, 2020
    Workshop proposals notification: Oct 27, 2020

    Poster/demo submission: Jan 20, 2021
    Poster/demo notification: Feb 4, 2021

    Tutorial proposals submission: Jan 20, 2021
    Tutorial proposals notification: Feb 4, 2021

    Work-in-progress papers: Jan 20, 2021
    Work-in-progress paper notification: Feb 4, 2021

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    LOCATION

    The organizing committee is working hard to put together a great ICPE conference, and to welcome you in Rennes. At this point, however, due
    to the uncertainty around the COVID pandemic, we cannot guarantee this
    is possible. We also recognize the challenges some of our community
    members might face in travelling. Therefore, currently, the conference
    model is "on-site with remote participation facilities" - meaning,
    ICPE 2021's committee is looking forward to a live event, but will
    provide the required infrastructure for online presence.

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    SCOPE AND TOPICS

    The International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) is the
    leading international forum for presenting and discussing novel ideas, innovations, trends and experiences in the field of performance
    engineering. Modern systems, such as big data and machine learning environments, data centers and cloud infrastructures, social networks, peer-to-peer, mobile and wireless systems, cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things or more traditional ones such as web-based or real-
    time systems, rely increasingly on distributed and dynamic architectures
    and pose a challenge to their end-to-end performance management.

    ICPE brings together researchers and practitioners to 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, cost, sustainability, security and privacy. The systems of interest include any type of computing
    or software system, such as (but not limited to) desktop systems, cloud systems, web-based systems, embedded systems, distributed systems and cyber-physical systems. The handling of performance issues at all stages
    of software and system life cycles is also of interest.

    This year, we particularly encourage researchers to submit their work on
    the performance engineering of ‘modern’ application domains as well, such as deep learning, blockchain, microservices, Big Data, DevOps and/or Autonomous Systems.

    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
    * Machine learning and neural networks
    * Model validation and calibration techniques
    * Automatic model extraction
    * Performance modeling and analysis tools

    Performance and software development processes/paradigms:
    * Software performance testing
    * Software performance (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
    * Performance and agile methods
    * Performance in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA)
    * Software and system scalability and its impact on performance

    Performance measurement, monitoring and analysis:
    * Application tracing and profiling
    * Workload characterization techniques
    * Experimental design
    * Tools and techniques for performance testing, measurement, profiling and tuning,
    * and analysis of the resulting data

    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 and adaptation
    * Machine learning and runtime performance decisions
    * Context modeling and analysis
    * Runtime model estimation
    * 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

    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 is 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 papers for ongoing innovative 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
    the provided topic areas when submitting their papers.

    Submissions to all tracks need to be uploaded to ICPE's submission
    system and conform to the ACM submission format.

    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 2021 conference proceedings that
    will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library.

    Authors of accepted research papers are invited to submit an artifact to
    the ACM/SPEC ICPE 2021 Artifact Track.

    The highest quality papers, judged by multiple relevant factors, will be recognized with an award. Authors of selected papers will be invited to
    submit an extended version of their work to 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)

    Jose Nelson Amaral, University of Alberta, Canada
    Varsha Apte, IIT Bombay, India
    Alberto Avritzer, eSulabSolutions, USA
    Steffen Becker, University of Stuttgart, Germany
    Simona Bernardi, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
    Andre Bondi, Software Performance and Scalability Consulting LLC, USA
    Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
    Lubomir Bulej, Charles University, Czech Republic
    Radu Calinescu, University of York, England
    Valeria Cardellini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
    Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen, Concordia University, Canada
    Lucy Cherkasova, ARM Research, USA
    Vittoria De Nitto Personè, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
    Antinisca Di Marco, University of L'Aquila, Italy
    Wilhelm Hasselbring, Kiel University, Germany
    Nikolas Roman Herbst, University of Würzburg, Germany
    Alexandru Iosup, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
    Pooyan Jamshidi, University of South Carolina, USA
    Evangelia Kalyvianaki, University of Cambridge, England
    Samuel Kounev, University of Würzburg, Germany
    Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
    Heiko Koziolek, ABB Corporate Research, Germany
    Diwakar Krishnamurthy, University of Calgary, Canada
    Philipp Leitner, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden
    Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada
    Catalina M. Llado, Universitat Illes Balears, Spain
    Daniel Menasce, George Mason University, USA
    Jose Merseguer, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
    Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
    Hanspeter Mössenböck, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
    John Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland
    Manoj Nambiar, Tata Consultancy Services, India
    Dusan Okanovic, Novatec, Germany
    Dorina Petriu, Carleton University, Canada
    Francesco Quaglia, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
    Weiyi Shang, Concordia University, Canada
    Rekha Singhal, Tata Consultancy Services, India
    Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, USA
    Mirco Tribastone, IMT Lucca, Italy
    Catia Trubiani, GSSI L'Aquila, Italy
    Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic
    Alexandru Uta, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
    Andre van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart, Germany
    Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Katinka Wolter, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
    Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Canada

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    PROGRAM COMMITTEE (INDUSTRIAL/EXPERIENCE PAPERS)

    Marco Beccuti, Università degli studi di Torino, Italy
    Ajay Joshi, ARM, India
    Arthur Kang, Inspur, China
    Carolin Heinrich, HPE, Germany
    Christopher Floyd, Lenovo, USA
    David Schmidt, Red Hat, USA
    Dibyam Pradhan, ARM, India
    John Beckett, Dell, USA
    Klaus-Dieter Lange, HPE, USA
    Lisa Roderick, VMware, USA
    Mathew Colgrove, Nvidia, USA
    Sanjay Sharma, Intel, USA
    Norbert Schmitt, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
    Boris Zibitsker, BEZNext, USA
    Vojtěch Horký, Charles University, Czech Republic
    Weiyi Shang, Concordia University, Canada
    Carsten Franke, ABB Hitachi Power Grids Research, Switzerland
    Raphael Eidenbenz, ABB Hitachi Power Grids Research, Switzerland
    Andreas Brunnert, RETiT, Germany
    Suryanarayanan Natarajan, ATOS, India
    Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA

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    ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

    General Chairs
    * Johann Bourcier, University of Rennes 1, France
    * Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang, York University, Canada

    Research Program Chairs
    * Vittorio Cortellessa, University of L'Aquila, Italy
    * Cor-Paul Bezemer, University of Alberta, Canada

    Artifact Evaluation Chairs
    * Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen, Concordia University, Canada
    * Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy

    Workshops Chairs
    * Weiyi Shang, Concordia University, Canada
    * Alessandro Pellegrini, Rome University, Italy

    Tutorials Chairs
    * Nikolas Herbst, University of Würzburg, Germany
    * Rekha Singhal, Tata Consultancy Services, India

    Posters and Demos Chair
    * Heng Li, Ecloe Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
    * Catalina Lladó Matas, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

    Awards Chairs
    * Philipp Leitner, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden
    * Marios Fokaefs, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada

    Publicity Chairs
    * Boyuan Chen, York University, Canada
    * Huaming Wu, Tianjin University, China
    * Simon Eismann, University of Würzburg, Germany
    * Alma Riska, NetApps, USA
    * Djamel Eddine Khelladi, CNRS-Univ Rennes, France

    Industry Track Chair
    * James Bucek, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, USA
    * Robert Birke, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland

    Finance Chair
    * Benoit Combemale, University of Rennes 1, France

    Publications Chair
    * Daniele Di Pompeo, University of L'Aquila, Italy
    * Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Social-Media Chair
    * Mathieu Acher, University of Rennes 1, France
    * Arnaud Blouin, INSA Rennes, France

    Local Arrangements Chair
    * Elisabeth Lebret, Inria Rennes, France
    * Nathalie Lacaux, Inria Rennes, France

    Web Chair
    * Antoine Cheron, Fabernovel, France
    * Olivier Barais, University of Rennes 1, France

    Student Volunteer Chair
    * Noël Plouzeau, University of Rennes 1, France

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