Sigmetrics - Performance 2004
                              Call For Papers 
   Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer
                                  Systems
           Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS and IFIP Working Group 7.3
                   http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sigm2004/
                       June 12-16, 2004 New York, NY
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   The joint Sigmetrics - Performance conference solicits papers 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 combines
   analytic and experimetal methods to evaluate design trade-offs in real
   systems.

   Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
     * Performance-oriented design and evaluation studies of
       communication networks, Internet servers, computer architectures,
       database systems, operating systems, distributed systems,
       multimedia systems, mobile and handheld systems, file and I/O
       systems, memory systems, real-time systems, and dependable
       systems, including case studies and performance-evaluation tools.
     * Performance methodology techniques, algorithms, and tools for
       analytic modeling, system measurement and monitoring, model
       verification and validation, workload characterization,
       simulation, statistical analysis, stochastic modeling including
       queues, stochastic Petri nets, stochastic process algebras, model
       checking, experimental design, reliability and availability
       analysis, power analysis, performance optimizations, and hybrid
       models.

   Submission Guidelines:
     * Papers: Detailed submission guidelines are available at the
       conference web site.
     * 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.
     * Tutorials: A series of tutorials will immediately precede the main
       conference. Send proposals of no more than 1 or 2 pages (for
       90-minute or 3-hour tutorials) to the tutorials chair. Include the
       proposed title, brief description of material, intended audience,
       assumed background of attendees, and the name, affiliation,
       contact information (e-mail and phone), and brief biography of
       speaker(s). Postscript or PDF is preferred.

   Important Dates:

          November 2, 2003: Paper title, abstract, and author affiliations due.
          November 7, 2003: Full papers, tutorials, and hot topic proposals due (HARD deadline, no extensions)
          January 29, 2004: Notification of acceptance