The First International Workshop on Software and Performance

http://www.sce.carleton.ca/wosp98

Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS, and in cooperation with the Computer Measurement Group (CMG), IFIP WG 6.3 and 7.3, and ACM SIGSOFT. Industrial sponsors include: Hewlett-Packard Labs (Palo Alto), Scientific and Engineering Software (SES), and NORTEL.

Software performance engineering (SPE) research aims to build predictable performance into systems by considering quantitative behavior from a system’s requirements stage 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 brings together SPE and Software Engineering researchers. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Defining and managing performance goals

Risk assessment (when to analyze, value)

Architectural assessment

Performance oriented Design/Implementation

Experience with performance engineering

Performance evaluation methods, tools, and frameworks

Gathering and exploiting data

Automated model building

Model and data interchange formats

Measurement and monitoring techniques and services

Analysis of measured data, Application Quality of Service

Full papers, experience papers, position papers, and panels are solicited. Full papers and experience papers will be fully refereed for presentation in the workshop’s ACM Conference proceedings. Position papers will be used to make up workshops, and selected ones will be included in the proceedings.

Important Deadlines:

March 13, 1998 – submission and proposal deadline

April 30, 1998 – author notification

June 19, 1998 – camera ready copy due

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

For submission instructions please visit the WOSP 98 web page. For further information please contact the General Chair. Electronic submissions can be made via the web site. For other submissions, send six copies of appropriately designated materials to either of the Program Co-Chairs.

General Chair: 

Connie U. Smith

Performance Engineering Services

PO Box 2640

Santa Fe, NM 87504

cusmith@perfeng.com

Phone: 1-505-988-3811

Fax: 1-505-983-3114

Murray Woodside

Systems and Computer Engineering

Carleton University

ME4462, 1125 Colonel By Drive

Ottawa, Canada, K1S 5B6

cmw@sce.carleton.ca

Phone: 1-613-520-5721

Fax: 1-613-520-5727

 Paul Clements

Software Engineering Institute

Carnegie Mellon University

4500 Fifth Avenue

Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

clements@sei.cmu.edu

Phone: 1-512-453-1471

Fax: 1-512-268-5758

Conference Committee: Publicity: Jerry Rolia, Carleton University, Registration: Phillip. C. Howard, Applied Computer Research, Treasurer: Thad Jennings, Tivoli Systems.

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