CALL FOR PAPERS

4th International Workshop on
Performance Modeling, Evaluation, and Optimization of Parallel and Distributed Systems
(PMEO-PDS'05)

To be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2005 (sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and ACM SIGARCH)
April 4-8, 2005 in Denver, Colorado, USA

http://www.inf.brad.ac.uk/~gmin/PMEO-05.html

Selected high quality papers from the workshop will appear in a Special Issue of the journal Cluster Computing
(published by Kluwer)
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1386-7857/

 
SCOPE:
The performance modeling, evaluation, and optimization of parallel, distributed,
and grid 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, distributed, and grid 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:
Geyong Min                                                                                         
Department of Computing                                                            
University of Bradford                                                                                 
Bradford, BD7 1DP, U.K.                                                                 
E-mail: g.min@bradford.ac.uk                                                            

Mohamed Ould-Khaoua
Department of Computing Science
University of Glasgow 
Glasgow, G12 8RZ, U.K.
E-mail: mohamed@dcs.gla.ac.uk  

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Helen Karatza                          
Department of Informatics
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki, Greece
Email: karatza@csd.auth.gr

Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare
Barddal University
Florianopolis, SC Brazil
Email: mirela@barddal.br



POTENTIAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Marco Ajmone-Marsan, Politechnico di Torino (Italy)
Hamid R. Arabnia, Univ. of Georgia (USA)
Mark Baker, Univ. of Portsmouth (UK)
Pradip Bose, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (USA)
Azzedine Boukerche, Univ. of North Texas (USA)
Michele Colajanni, Univ. of Modena (Italy)
Chita R. Das, Penn State Univ. (USA)
Tarek El-Ghazawi, George Washington University (USA)
Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London (UK)
Pete Harrison, Imperial College London (UK)
Roland Ibbett, Univ. of Edinburgh (UK)
Stephen Jarvis, Univ. of Warwick (UK)
Krishna Kant, Intel Corporation (USA)
Helen Karatza, Univ. of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Paul Kelly, Imperial College London (UK)
Demetres D. Kouvatsos, Univ. of Bradford (UK)
Keqin Li, State Univ. of New York at New Paltz (USA)
Zhen Liu, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (USA)
Isi Mitrani, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)
Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth Univ. (USA)
Yi Pan, Georgia State Univ. (USA)
Dhiraj K. Pradhan, Univ. of Bristol (UK)
Mirela S. M. A. Notare, Barddal University, (Brazil)
Hamid Sarbazi-Azad, Sharif University & IPM (IRAN)
Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology (USA)
Nigel Thomas, Univ. of Newcastle (UK)
Mike E. Woodward, Univ. of Bradford (UK)
Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic Univ. (USA) 
Cathy H. Xia, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (USA)
Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State Univ. (USA)
Qing Yang, Univ. of Rhode Island (USA) 
Xiaodong Zhang, College of William and Mary (USA) 
Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (USA) 
Albert Zomaya, Univ. of Sydney (AUSTRALIA)


PAPER SUBMISIION:
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 g.min@brad.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 '2005 workshops
by the IEEE Computer Society Press. A special issue will be planned in a scholarly
journal to include selected high-quality papers from the PMEO-PDS'2005 workshop.



IMPORTANT DATES:
 Submission Deadline: 8 November 2004
 Author Notification: 20 December, 2004
 Final Manuscript Due: 21 January, 2005