*** Due to the large number of requests for extensions,
    we have EXTENDED the paper submission DEADLINE until
    November 2, 11:59 pm (US Eastern Time).

    We still request that authors please REGISTER their
    papers by the original deadline of October 26th. ***
   

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                             CALL FOR PAPERS 
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                   SIGMETRICS 2001 / Performance 2001

   Joint Intl. Conference on Measurement & Modeling of Computer Systems

           Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS and IFIP Working Group 7.3


                           June 17-20th, 2001

                     Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA


             http://www.cs.umd.edu/conference/sigmetrics2001


The joint SIGMETRICS/Performance conference solicits papers
(and proposals for tutorials and hot topics) on the
development and application of state-of-the-art, broadly-applicable
analytic, simulation, and measurement-based performance evaluation
techniques. Of particular interest is work that furthers the
state-of-the-art in performance evaluation methods, or those that
creatively apply previously developed methods to understand or to gain
important insights into key design trade-offs in complex
computer/communication systems. Topics of interest include, but 
not limited to:


Performance-oriented design and evaluation studies of:
   communication networks, Internet servers, computer architectures, 
   database systems, operating systems, distributed systems,
   multimedia systems, file and I/O systems, memory systems, 
   real-time systems, and fault-tolerant systems. 


Performance methodology techniques and algorithms for: 
   analytic modeling, system measurement and monitoring, 
   model verification and validation, workload characterization, 
   simulation, statistical analysis, stochastic modeling including
   queues and Petri nets, experimental design, reliability analysis, 
   performance optimization, and hybrid models. 


** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES **

A. Papers:
   Papers should not exceed 20 double-spaced pages including figures and
   tables. Papers must be submitted electronically in printable postscript
   or pdf form; for detailed submission instructions, refer to the above URL.
   *All submissions will be reviewed using a double-blind review process*.
   The identity of authors and referees will not be revealed to each other.
   To ensure blind reviewing, authors' names and affiliations should not
   appear in the paper; bibliographic references should be made in such a
   way as to preserve author anonymity. 

B. Hot Topic Sessions: 
   Proposals are solicited for a hot topic session, in which a group of
   speakers will present and discuss their recent results in an area. Send
   proposals to the program chairs, identifying the organizer of the
   session, the session title, three to five speakers, the titles of their
   talks, and a short abstract of each talk. 

C. Tutorials: 
   A series of tutorials will immediately precede the conference. Send
   proposals of no more than 1-2 pages for 90 minute and 3 hours tutorials
   to the tutorials chair:

        Mor Harchol-Balter. 
        Computer Science Department
        Carnegie Mellon University
        5000 Forbes Ave.
        Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891
        E-Mail: harchol@cs.cmu.edu

   Include the proposed title, brief description of
   material, intended audience, assumed background of attendees, and the
   name, affiliation, contact information (email & phone) and brief
   biography of speaker(s). Postscript or pdf is preferred. 


*** Organization ***

    General Chair:
       Philip Heidelberger
       IBM TJ Watson Research Center
       PO Box 218
       Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
       philiph@us.ibm.com

    Program Co-Chairs:
       Ernst Biersack
       Corporate Communications Department
       Institute Eurecom
       06904 Sophia Antipolis
       FRANCE
       E-mail: erbi@eurecom.fr
      
       Leana Golubchik
       Department of Computer Science
       University of Maryland
       College Park, MD 20742
       E-mail: leana@cs.umd.edu


    Tutorial Chair:
       Mor Harchol-Balter
       Computer Science Department
       Carnegie Mellon University
       E-mail:  harchol@cs.cmu.edu


    Local Arrangements Chair: 
       David R. Kaeli
       Northeastern University
       Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
       E-Mail: kaeli@ece.neu.edu 


    Finance Chair: 
       Vittorio Castelli
       IBM TJ Watson Research Center
       E-Mail: vittorio@us.ibm.com 
 

    Publicity Co-Chairs: 
       Scott Kaplan (North America)
       Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
       Amherst College
       E-Mail: sfkaplan@cs.amherst.edu 

       John C.-S. Lui (Asia)
       Department of Computer Science & Engineering
       The Chinese University of Hong Kong
       E-Mail: cslui@cse.cuhk.edu.hk 

       Guillaume Urvoy (Europe)
       Laboratoire PRiSM
       Universit de Versailles St Quentin en Yvelines, France
       E-Mail: urvoy@eurecom.fr 

    Proceedings Chair: 
       Sanjeev Setia
       Department of Computer Science
       George Mason University
       E-Mail: setia@cs.gmu.edu 

   Web Master:

        William Cheng
        Department of Computer Science
        University of Maryland
        College Park, MD 20742
        E-Mail: william@cs.umd.edu

** IMPORTANT DEADLINES ** 

    October 26, 2000: (extended to November 2)
                      Submission of papers, hot topic proposals,
                      and tutorial proposal.

         ***NOTE: please REGISTER your papers by October 26th.

    January 29, 2001: Notification of acceptance.
      March 14, 2001: Camera ready copy due.

For additional information (electronic submission guidelines,
tips on writing to preserve anonymity, detailed contact information
of organizing committee members, and so on) please refer to: 

           http://www.cs.umd.edu/conference/sigmetrics2001