We are pleased to announce that selected high-quality papers from the 
PMEO-PDS'03 workshop will appear in a Special Issue
of the journal - Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier Science, 
North-Holland - http://www.elsevier.com/locate/future

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CALL FOR PAPERS

International Workshop on
Performance Modeling, Evaluation, and Optimization of  Parallel and 
Distributed Systems (PMEO-PDS' 2003)

To be held in conjunction with IPDPS' 2003 (sponsored by IEEE Computer 
Society and ACM SIGARCH)
22 -26 April, 2003, Nice Acropolis Convention Center, Nice, France
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/people/personal/geyong/PEMO-03.html
http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2003/2003_workshops.html




SCOPE:
The performance modeling, evaluation, and optimization of parallel and 
distributed systems have been an important research topic over the
past years and poses challenging problems that require new tools and 
methods to keep up with the rapid evolution and increasing complexity of
such systems. This workshop will bring together scientists, engineers, 
practitioners, and computer users to share and exchange their experiences,
discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on 
all aspects of performance modeling, evaluation, and optimization
of parallel and distributed systems.  The topics of interest include, but 
are not limited to:

· Predictive performance models of parallel and distributed systems
· Performance measurement and monitoring tools
· Tracing and trace analysis
· Simulation
· Analytical modeling
· Software tools for system performance and evaluation
· Automatic performance analysis
· Performance comparison
· Performance of memory and I/O interconnect
· Performance of communication networks
· Performance analysis of parallel and distributed applications
· Improvement in system performance through optimization and tuning
· Case studies showing the role of evaluation in the design of systems


WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS:
Geyong Min and Mohamed Ould-Khaoua
Department of Computing Science
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, G12 8RZ
U.K.
E-mail: geyong@dcs.gla.ac.uk
              mohamed@dcs.gla.ac.uk


PAPER SUBMISSION:
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished 
research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop.
The length of the papers should not exceed 18 DOUBLE-spaced pages including 
figures and references on 8.5 by 11 inch paper using at least 11 point
font. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format (or 
postscript) by sending it as an e-mail attachment to geyong@dcs.gla.ac.uk 
or mohamed@dcs.gla.ac.uk.
All papers will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the 
authors. The accepted papers will be published together with those of other 
IPDPS '03 workshops
by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

Selected high quality papers from the workshop will appear in a Special 
Issue of the journal - Future Generation Computer Systems.
Elsevier Science, North-Holland - http://www.elsevier.com/locate/future


IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission Deadline: 8 November 2002 (extended to 15 November 2002)
Author Notification: 20 December, 2002
Final Manuscript Due: 18 January, 2


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