Deadline extend to 15th Nov.
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CALL FOR PAPERS

3rd International Workshop on
Performance Modeling, Evaluation, and Optimization of  Parallel and
Distributed Systems (PMEO-PDS' 2004)

To be held in conjunction with IPDPS' 2004 (sponsored by IEEE Computer
Society and ACM SIGARCH)
26-30 April 2004, Santa Fe, New Mexico

http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/people/personal/mohamed/pmeo04.html
http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2004/2004_workshops.html


Selected high quality papers from the workshop will appear in a special
issue of a scholarly journal.


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 of mobile distributed systems
*  Performance analysis and evaluation 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:
Mohamed Ould-Khaoua
Department of Computing Science
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, G12 8RZ, U.K.
E-mail: mohamed@dcs.gla.ac.uk

Geyong Min
Department of Computing
University of Bradford
Bradford, BD7 1DP, UK
E-mail: g.min@brad.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Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished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 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 '2004 workshops by the IEEE Computer Society Press.


IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission Deadline: 15 November 2003
Author Notification: 20 December, 2003
Final Manuscript Due: 23  January, 2004