[ecoop-info] ACM/SPEC ICPE 2015: Joint Call for Workshop Papers (LT, PABS, WOSP-C)

[Andre van Hoorn]

Dear colleagues,

below, I've enclosed a joint call for *workshop* papers for the
6th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering
(ICPE 2015). Please note that some other ICPE tracks are still open
for submissions (e.g., *tutorials*, *vision papers*, *demos/posters*,
*PhD workshop*): http://icpe2015.ipd.kit.edu/

Regards, André


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                    JOINT CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS

                               ICPE 2015
    6th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering

               A Joint Meeting of WOSP/SIPEW sponsored by
       ACM SIGMETRICS and ACM SIGSOFT in Cooperation with SPEC

                          Austin, Texas, USA
                        January 31-Feb 4, 2015

                      http://icpe2015.ipd.kit.edu/

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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. ICPE is a joint meeting of the ACM
Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP) and the SPEC International
Performance Evaluation Workshop (SIPEW). The conference brings together
researchers and industry practitioners to share and present their
experience, to discuss challenges, and to report state-of-the-art and
in-progress research on performance engineering.

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WORKSHOPS

The following workshops are organized in conjunction with ICPE 2015:

 - 4th International Workshop on Large-Scale Testing (LT 2015)
 - 1st Workshop on Performance Analysis of Big data Systems (PABS)
 - 1st Workshop on Challenges in Performance Methods for Software
                   Development (WOSP-C 2015)

A brief overview of all workshops is given below. For more information,
visit the conference website at
http://icpe2015.ipd.kit.edu/conference_workshops/

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4TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LARGE-SCALE TESTING (LT 2015)

ABSTRACT
 Many large-scale software systems (e.g., e-commerce websites,
 telecommunication infrastructures and enterprise systems, etc.) must
 service hundreds, thousands or even millions of concurrent requests.
 Many field problems of these systems are due to their inability to
 scale to field workloads, rather than feature bugs. In addition to
 conventional functional testing, these systems must be tested with
 large volumes of concurrent requests (called the load) to ensure the
 quality of these systems. Large-scale testing includes all different
 objectives and strategies of testing large scale software systems
 using load. Examples of large-scale testing are live upgrade testing,
 load testing, high availability testing, operational profile testing,
 performance testing, reliability testing, stability testing and stress
 testing. Large-scale testing is a difficult task requiring a great
 understanding of the system under test. Practitioners face many
 challenges such as tooling (choosing and implementing the testing
 tools), environments (software and hardware setup) and time (limited
 time to design, test, and analyze). Yet, little research is done in
 the software engineering domain concerning this topic. This one-day
 workshop brings together software testing researchers, practitioners
 and tool developers to discuss the challenges and opportunities of
 conducting research on large-scale software testing.

WORKSHOP WEB SITE INCLUDING A DETAILED CALL FOR PAPERS:
 http://lt2015.eecs.yorku.ca/

IMPORTANT DATES
 Paper submission:           November 16, 2014
 Paper notification:         November 30, 2014
 Camera-ready copy:          December 14, 2014 (firm)
 Industry talk submission:   January 9, 2015
 Industry talk notification: January 14, 2015
 Workshop date:              February 1, 2015 (Sunday)

SUBMISSION
 The workshops solicit the following two tracks of submissions to be
 reviewed by the workshop program committee: technical papers (maximum 4
 pages) and extended abstracts for industry talks (maximum 700 words).
 Technical papers should follow the standard ACM SIG proceedings format
 and need to be submitted electronically via EasyChair. Extended
 abstracts need to be submitted as  "abstract only" submissions via
 EasyChair. Accepted technical papers will be included in the ACM
 Digital Library. Extended abstracts will not be included in the ACM
 Digital Library.

 Detailed submission instructions are available on the LT 2015 web site:
 http://lt2015.eecs.yorku.ca/

ORGANIZERS (CHAIRS):
 Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang - York University, Canada
 Andreas Brunnert       - fortiss GmbH, Germany

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1ST WORKSHOP ON PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF BIG DATA SYSTEMS (PABS 2015)

ABSTRACT
 Big data systems deal with velocity, variety, volume and veracity of
 the application data. We witness an explosive growth in the complexity,
 diversity, number of deployments and capabilities of big data
 processing systems such as Map-Reduce, Cassandra, Big Table, HPCC,
 Hyracks, Dryad, Pregel and Mongo DB. The big data system may use new
 operating system designs, advanced data processing algorithms,
 parallelization of application, high performance architectures and
 clusters to improve the performance. Looking at the volume of data to
 mine, and complex architectures, one may need to analyze, identify or
 predict bottlenecks to optimize the system and improve its performance.

 The workshop on performance analysis of big data systems (PABS) aims at
 providing a platform for scientific researchers, academicians and
 practitioners to discuss techniques, models, benchmarks, tools and
 experiences while dealing with performance issues in big data systems.
 The primary objective is to discuss performance bottlenecks and
 improvements during big data analysis using different paradigms,
 architectures and technologies such as Map-Reduce, MPP, Big Table,
 NOSQL, graph based models (e.g., Pregel, giraph ) and any other new
 upcoming paradigms. We propose to use this platform as an opportunity
 to discuss systems, architectures, tools, and optimization algorithms
 that are parallel in nature and hence make use of advancements to
 improve the system performance. This workshop shall focus on the
 performance challenges imposed by big data systems and on the
 different state-of-the-art solutions proposed to overcome these
 challenges.

WORKSHOP WEB SITE INCLUDING A DETAILED CALL FOR PAPERS:
 http://ripsac.web2labs.net/pabs

IMPORTANT DATES
 Paper submission:   November 22, 2014
 Paper notification: December 10, 2014
 Camera-ready copy:  December 15, 2014 (firm)
 Workshop date:      February 1, 2015 (Sunday)

SUBMISSION
 The workshop invites original, unpublished recent results related to
 the workshop theme, to be reviewed by the workshop program committee.
 Up to 6 pages in standard ACM format can be submitted through the
 EasyChair conference system. Accepted contributions will be included
 in the ACM Digital Library.

 Detailed submission instructions are available on the PABS 2015 web
 site: http://ripsac.web2labs.net/pabs

ORGANIZERS (CHAIRS):
 Rekha Singhal  - Performance Engineering Research Centre,
                  TCS Innovations Lab, India
 Dheeraj Chahal - Performance Engineering Research Centre,
                  TCS Innovations Lab, India

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1ST WORKSHOP ON CHALLENGES IN PERFORMANCE METHODS FOR
                SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT (WOSP-C 2015)

ABSTRACT
 This one-day workshop will explore the new challenges to product
 performance that have arisen due to changes in software and in the
 development process. For example, faster development means less time
 for performance planning, the need for scalability and adaptability
 increases the pressure while introducing new sources of delay in the
 use of middleware, model-driven engineering, component engineering and
 software development tools offer opportunities but their exploitation
 requires effort and carries risks.

 The workshop will seek to identify the most promising lines of research
 to address these challenges, through a combination of research and
 experience papers, vision papers describing new initiatives and ideas,
 and discussion sessions. Papers describing new projects and approaches
 are particularly welcome. As implied by the title, the workshop will
 consider methods usable anywhere across the life cycle, from
 requirements to design, testing and evolution of the product. There
 will be sessions which combine papers on research/experience/vision
 with substantial discussion on issues raised by the papers or the
 attendees. About a third of the time will be devoted to discussion on
 identifying the key problems and the most fruitful lines of future
 research.

WORKSHOP WEB SITE INCLUDING A DETAILED CALL FOR PAPERS:
 http://wosp-c.ipd.kit.edu/

IMPORTANT DATES
 Submit by:                November 15, 2014
 Notification to authors:  December 1, 2014
 Camera-ready copy:        December 14, 2014 (firm)
 Workshop date:            January 31, 2015 (Saturday)


SUBMISSION
 The workshop invites 6-page papers in ACM format, describing research
 results, experience, visions or new initiatives. Accepted contributions
 will be included in the ACM Digital Library.

 Detailed submission instructions are available on the WOSP-C 2015 web
 site: http://wosp-c.ipd.kit.edu/

ORGANIZERS:
 Murray Woodside (Chair) - Carleton University, Canada
 Davide Arcelli - University of L'Aquila, Italy
 Alberto Avritzer - Siemens Corp., Corporate Technology, US
 Steffen Becker - University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany
 Andre Bondi - Siemens Corp., Corporate Technology, US
 Giuliano Casale - Imperial College London, UK
 Anne Koziolek - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
 Diwakar Krishnamurthy - University of Calgary, Canada
 Raffaela Mirandola - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
 Dorina Petriu - Carleton University, Canada
 Connie Smith - Performance Engineering Services, US

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Dipl.-Inform. André van Hoorn

University of Stuttgart, Inst. of Software Technology
Reliable Software Systems (RSS) Group
Universitätsstraße 38, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany

Room: 1.336
Phone:  +49 (0)711 685-88-252, Fax: -472
E-Mail: van.hoorn at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de