WOSP'2000 - ACM Sigmetrics and Sigsoft Workshop

CALL FOR PAPERS

WOSP'2000
The Second International Workshop on Software and Performance

September 17-20, 2000
Ottawa, Canada
http://www.sce.carleton.ca/wosp2000

Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS and ACM SIGSOFT.
In cooperation with the Computer Measurement Group (CMG), IFIP WG 6.3 and 7.3 (all, pending approval).

Software performance engineering (SPE) research aims to build predictable performance into systems by considering quantitative behavior from a system's requirements phase through to its maintenance and enhancement. Increasing system complexity, rapidly evolving software technologies, short time to market, incomplete documentation, and less than adequate quantitative models and tools offer many challenges to SPE practitioners and researchers. WOSP'2000 brings together SPE and Software Engineering researchers and practitioners. The first workshop (WOSP'98) held in in Santa Fe, NM, was highly successful.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

SPE Process and Practices

Defining and managing performance goals and requirements
Risk assessment (when to analyze, value)
Performance budgeting for development groups
System and software architectural assessment
Performance-oriented Design/Implementation
Performance annotation of software specifications
Experience with performance engineering

Modeling Tools and Techniques

Performance evaluation methods, tools, and frameworks
Gathering and exploiting data
Automated model building
Model and data interchange formats

Performance Measurement, Modeling, and Management for Software Systems

Test methods and tools
Measurement and monitoring techniques and services
Analysis of measured data; application Quality of Service
Performance modeling of software applications
Perfomance modeling of software architectures
Performance modeling of software analysis and design models

Full papers, experience papers, position papers, and panels are solicited. Full papers and experience papers will be fully refereed for presentation in the Proceedings which will be published by ACM. Position papers will be used to make up workshop sessions, and selected ones will be included in the proceedings.

Important Deadlines:

April 3, 2000 - submission deadline for full papers, experience papers, positions papers and panel proposals, and tutorial proposals.
May 29, 2000 - author notification for papers and tutorials.
June 23, 2000 - camera ready copy due for papers.

Please submit:

Full papers, up to 16 pages, on new research results
Experience papers, up to 8 pages on practical aspects
Position papers, up to 3 pages on issues of any kind
Panel proposals, up to 2 pages explaining the issues to be discussed and suggested participants
Tutorial proposals, up to 2 pages outlining the coverage, and including the intended duration

Tutorial submissions should go to the Tutorial Chair. All other submissions should can be made electronically. For non-electronic submissions, send six copies of appropriately designated materials to either of the Program Co-Chairs.

General Chair	Program Co-chairs
Murray Woodside	Danny Menascé	Hassan Gomaa
Dept. of Systems and Comp. Eng.	Dept. of Computer Science	Dept. of Inform. & Softw. Engineering
Carleton University	George Mason University
Ottawa, Canada K1S 5B6	Fairfax, VA 22030-4444, USA
cmw@sce.carleton.ca	menasce@cs.gmu.edu	hgomaa@isse.gmu.edu
(613) 520-5721	(703) 993-1537	(703) 993-1652

Tutorial Chair

Rob Pooley

Heriot-Watt University

Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, England

rjp@cee.hw.ac.uk

Conference Committee :

Treasurer : Andre Bondi, AT&T Labs

Program Committee:

Heinz Beilner, Univ. ofDortmund

Gianfranco Ciardo, College of William and Mary

Rich Friedrich, Hewlett-Packard Labs

Pankaj Garg, Hewlett-Packard Labs

Guenter Haring, Univ. of Vienna

Peter Harrison, Imperial College

Peter Hughes, Modicum

Paola Inverardi, Univ. dell'Aquila

Ravi Iyer, Univ. of Illinois

Anant Jalnapurkar, Nortel

Mark Klein, SEI

John Knight, University of Virginia

Paul Kogut, Lockheed-Martin

Doug Lea, SUNY

Ross A. Lumley, Mitretek and GWU

Jeff Magee, Imperial College

Shikharesh Majumdar,Carleton University

Kevin Mills, NIST

Richard Muntz, UCLA

Rob Nord, Siemens

Harry Perros, North Carolina State

Dorina Petriu, Carleton University

Mauro Pezze, Politechnico di Milano

Rob Pooley, Herriot-Watt University

Jerry Rolia, Carleton University

Bill Sanders, Univ. of Illinois

Giuseppe Serazzi, Politecnico di Milano

Ken Sevcik, Univ. of Toronto

Connie Smith, Performance Engineering Services

Alex Thomasian, U. Connecticut

Lloyd Williams, Software Engineering Research

Dave Zubrow, SEI

WOSP Steering Committee:

Guenter Haring, Austria,

Danny Menasce, USA,

Gail Murphy, Canada,

Dorina Petriu, Canada,

Rob Pooley, UK,

Connie Smith, USA,

Elaine Weyuker, USA

Murray Woodside, Canada,

Dave Zubrow, USA.