CALL FOR PAPERS

ACM SIGMETRICS 2005
International Conference on Measurement & Modeling of Computer Systems

June 6-10, 2005, Banff, Canada

http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~sigm2005

The ACM SIGMETRICS 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 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 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, 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

    Papers: Papers should not exceed 12 pages double column including 
figures and tables in standard ACM format. Please refer to * the format 
link* <http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html>. Papers must 
be submitted electronically in printable postscript or pdf form; for 
detailed submission instructions, refer to the *Registration* 
<http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/%7Esigm2005/register.html> page. 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.

    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.

    Workshops: One or more workshops will immediately precede the 
conference. Send proposals of no more than 1-2 pages to the general 
chairs. Include the proposed title, brief description of topics, 
intended audience, and membership of workshop organizing committee. 
Postscript or pdf is preferred.

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

Important Dates

    October 22, 2004: Abstract registration.
    October 29, 2004: Paper, tutorial, workshops and hot topic proposal 
                      submission.
    January 28, 2005: Notification of acceptance.

Organization

    General Chairs:
    Derek Eager, University of Saskatchewan, eager@cs.usask.ca
    Carey Williamson, University of Calgary, carey@cpsc.ucalgary.ca

    Program Chairs:
    Sem Borst, Bell Labs and CWI, sem@research.bell-labs.com,
sem.borst@cwi.nl
    John C.S. Lui, Chinese University of Hong Kong, cslui@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

    Tutorials Chairs:
    Kimberly Keeton, HP Labs, kkeeton@hpl.hp.com
    Vishal Misra, Columbia University, misra@cs.columbia.edu

Program Committee

    Vikram Adve, UIUC
    Marco Ajmone-Marsan, Politecnico di Torino
    Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech
    Francois Baccelli, INRIA/ENS
    Ernst Biersack, Institut Eurecom
    Thomas Bonald, France Telecom
    Edmundo De Souza e Silva, Fed U Rio de Janiero
    Cristophe Diot, Intel
    Allan Downey, Olin College
    Nick Duffield, AT&T
    Ashish Goel, Stanford
    Leana Golubchik, USC
    Albert Greenberg, AT&T
    Matthias Grossglauser, EPFL
    Mor Harchol-Balter, CMU
    Jennifer Hou, UIUC
    R.K. Iyer, UIUC
    Kimberly Keeton, HP Labs
    Peter Key, Microsoft
    Anurag Kumar, IISC Bangalore
    Jim Kurose, UMass at Amherst
    T.V. Lakshman, Bell Labs
    Simon Lam, U Texas at Austin
    Jean-Yves Le Boudec, EPFL
    Kai Li, Princeton
    Zhen Liu, IBM
    Laurent Massoulie, Microsoft
    Rob van der Mei, CWI/Vrije U
    Arif Merchant, HP Labs
    Vishal Misra, Columbia
    Sue Moon, KAIST
    Dick Muntz, UCLA
    Erich Nahum, IBM
    Philippe Nain, INRIA
    Banu Ozden, USC
    Keith Ross, Polytechnic U
    Matthew Roughan, Adelaide U
    Dan Rubenstein, Columbia
    Sanjay Shakkottai, U Texas Austin
    Evgenia Smirni, College of William & Mary
    Daniel Sorin, Duke U
    Mark Squillante, IBM
    R. Srikant, UIUC
    Y.C. Tay, NUS
    Don Towsley, UMass at Amherst
    Phuoc Tran-Gia, U Wurzburg
    Jeffrey Vetter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Geoff Voelker, UCSD
    Jia Wang, AT&T
    Randy Wang, Princeton
    Jun Xu, Georgia Tech
    David K.Y. Yau, Purdue U
    Pen-Chung Yew, U Minnesota
    Philip S. Yu, IBM
    Zhi-Li Zhang, U Minnesota