Call for Contributions
ICPE 2018
9th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering
Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS, SIGSOFT, and SPEC RG
Berlin, Germany
April 9-13, 2018
Web: https://icpe2018.spec.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ICPEconf/
IMPORTANT DATES
Research and industrial/experience abstracts: Oct 16, 2017
Research and industrial/experience papers: Oct 18, 2017
Research and industrial/experience paper notification: Dec 8, 2017
Artifact registration: Dec 15, 2017
Artifact submission: Dec 22, 2017
Artifact notification: Feb 7, 2018
Work-in-progress/vision papers: Jan 10, 2018
Work-in-progress/vision paper notification: Feb 8, 2018
Poster/demo submission: Jan 3, 2018
Poster/demo notification: Jan 26, 2018
Dates for tutorials, workshop proposals, and doctoral symposium will be
announced (see also https://icpe2018.spec.org/important-dates/).
SCOPE AND TOPICS
The goal of the International Conference on Performance Engineering
(ICPE) is to integrate theory and practice in the field of performance
engineering by providing a forum for sharing ideas and experiences
between industry and academia. Nowadays, complex systems of all types,
like Web-based systems, data centers and cloud infrastructures, social
networks, peer-to-peer, mobile and wireless systems, cyber-physical
systems, the Internet of Things, real-time and embedded systems, have
increasingly distributed and dynamic system architectures that provide
high flexibility, however, also increase the complexity of managing
end-to-end application performance.
ICPE brings together researchers and industry practitioners to share and
present their experiences, discuss challenges, and report
state-of-the-art and in-progress research on performance engineering of
software and systems, including performance measurement, modeling,
benchmark design, and run-time performance management. The focus is both
on classical metrics such as response time, throughput, resource
utilization, and (energy) efficiency, as well as on the relationship of
such metrics to other system properties including but not limited to
scalability, elasticity, availability, reliability, and security.
This year's main theme is “continuous performance assurance in agile
delivery”.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Performance modeling of softwareLanguages and ontologies
Methods and tools
Relationship/integration/tradeoffs with other QoS attributes
Analytical, simulation and statistical modeling methodologies
Model validation and calibration techniques
Automatic model extraction
Performance modeling and analysis tools
Performance and software development processes/paradigms
Software performance patterns and anti-patterns
Software/performance tool interoperability (models and data
interchange formats)
Performance-oriented design, implementation and configuration
management
Software Performance Engineering and Model-Driven Development
Gathering, interpreting and exploiting software performance
annotations and data
System sizing and capacity planning techniques
(Model-driven) Performance requirements engineering
Relationship between performance and architecture
Collaboration of development and operation (DevOps) for performance
Performance and agile methods
Performance in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA)
Performance of microservice architectures and containers
Performance measurement, monitoring and analysis
Performance measurement and monitoring techniques
Analysis of measured application performance data
Application tracing and profiling
Workload characterization techniques
Experimental design
Tools for performance testing, measurement, profiling and tuning
Benchmarking
Performance metrics and benchmark suites
Benchmarking methodologies
Development of parameterizable, flexible benchmarks
Benchmark workloads and scenarios
Use of benchmarks in industry and academia
Run-time performance management
Use of models at run-time
Online performance prediction
Autonomic resource management
Utility-based optimization
Capacity management
Power and performance, energy efficiency
Power consumption models and management techniques
Tradeoffs between performance and energy efficiency
Performance-driven resource and power management
Performance modeling and evaluation in different environments and
application domains
Web-based systems, e-business, Web services
Big data systems, deep-learning systems, and other data analytics
systems
Internet of Things
Social networks
Cyber-physical systems
Industrial Internet (Industry 4.0)
Virtualization and cloud computing
Autonomous/adaptive systems
Transaction-oriented systems
Communication networks
Parallel and distributed systems
Embedded systems
Multi-core systems
Cluster and grid computing environments
High performance computing
Event-based systems
Real-time and multimedia systems
Low-latency systems
Peer-to-peer, mobile and wireless systems
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are not
being considered in another forum. A variety of contribution styles for
papers is solicited including: basic and applied research papers for
novel scientific insights, industrial and experience papers reporting on
applying performance engineering or benchmarks in practice, and
work-in-progress/vision papers for ongoing innovative work. Different
acceptance criteria apply based on the expected content of the
individual contribution types.
Authors will be requested to self-classify their papers according to
topic and contribution style when submitting their papers.
Submissions to all tracks need to be uploaded to ICPE's submission
system and conform to the ACM submission format. For detailed submission
instructions, please visit: https://icpe2018.spec.org/submissions.html.
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register at
the full rate, attend the conference and present the paper. Presented
papers will be published in the ICPE 2018 conference proceedings that
will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library.
Authors of accepted research papers are invited to submit an artifact to
the ACM/SPEC ICPE 2018 Artifact Track.
The highest quality papers, judged by multiple relevant factors, will be
recognized with an award. Authors of selected papers will be invited to
submit an extended version of their work to a journal.
AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the
proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may
be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The
official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings
related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings
are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over,
the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
J. Nelson Amaral, University of Alberta, Canada
Varsha Apte, IIT Bombay, India
Alberto Avritzer, independent, USA
Steffen Becker, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Umesh Bellur, IIT Bombay, India
Cor-Paul Bezemer, Queen’s University, Canada
Andre B. Bondi, Software Performance and Scalability Consulting LLC, USA
Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK
Lucy Cherkasova, HyTrust, USA
Vittorio Cortellessa, Universita' dell'Aquila, Italy
Vittoria de Nitto Personè, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan
Wilhelm Hasselbring, Kiel University, Germany
Evangelia Kalyvianaki, City University London, UK
Samuel Kounev, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Patrick Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada
Catalina M. Lladó, Universitat Illes Balears, Spain
Philipp Leitner, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Paulo R. M. Maciel, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Martina Maggio, Lund University, Sweden
Andrea Marin, University of Venice, Italy
Daniel Menasce, George Mason University, USA
José Merseguer, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Ningfang Mi, Northeastern University, USA
Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Juan F. Perez, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia
Dorina Petriu, Carleton University, Canada
Alma Riska, Network Appliances, USA
Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, USA
Nigel Thomas, Newcastle University, UK
Mirco Tribastone, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Italy
Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic
Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Enrico Vicario, University of Florence, Italy
Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Canada
Huaming Wu, Tianjin University, China
Feng Yan, University of Nevada-Reno, USA
Xiaoyun Zhu, Futurewei Technologies Inc., USA
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Klaus-Dieter Lange, HP Enterprise, USA
Meikel Poess, Oracle, USA
Tilmann Rabl, TU Berlin, Germany
Matthias Scholze, QMethods, USA
Rekha Singhal, TCS, India
Cloyce Spradling, Oracle, USA
Alexander Wert, NovaTec, Germany
Boris Zibitsker, BEZNext, USA
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chairs
Will Knottenbelt, Imperial College, UK
Katinka Wolter, FU Berlin, Germany
Research Program Chairs
André van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Manoj Nambiar, Tata Consultancy Services, India
Industry Program Chair
Heiko Koziolek, ABB, Germany
Artifact Evaluation Chairs
Wilhelm Hasselbring, Kiel University, Germany
Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic
Tutorials Chairs
Alma Dimnaku (Riska), Network Appliances, USA
Andrea Marin, University of Venice, Italy
Workshops Chairs
Eva Kalyvianaki, City University London, UK
Yao-Min Chen, Oracle, USA
Posters and Demos Chair
Marco Paolieri, University of Southern California, USA
Awards Chairs
Lydia Chen, IBM Zurich, Switzerland
John Murphy, UC Dublin, Ireland
Publicity Chairs
Juan F. Perez, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia
Huaming Wu, Tianjin University, China
Finance Chair
Matt Forshaw, Newcastle University, UK
Publication Chair
Vladimir Stankovic, City University London, UK
Web Site Chair
Thomas F. Düllmann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
