A WORKSHOP ON SOFTWARE AND PERFORMANCE (WOSP98)
Santa Fe, New Mexico, Oct 12-16 1998
Tutorials Oct 12
Workshop Oct 12-16
Hotel Reservation FORM and Hotel Web Site, Be sure to ask for the low conference Rate. For Sunday and Monday nights try the Hotels listed below.
St. Francis Hotel. Please book as many nights as possible at La Fonda to keep the WOSP '98 operating costs at a minimum. Mention that you are with WOSP to get a special room rate.
Radisson Inn and Suites on the Plaza. The location on the Plaza (125 Washington Ave. 505-988-4900, is closest to La Fonda and has a special WOSP room rate. The hotel is walking distance to La Fonda. However, please book as many nights as possible at La Fonda to keep the WOSP '98 operating costs at a minimum. There is another Radisson that is NOT walking distance. Parking near the Plaza/La Fonda is difficult and expensive because it is the best area in Santa Fe for ambiance, restaurants, walking, sightseeing, and shopping.
Why a New Workshop?
The relationship between software design and system performance is of
growing interest, motivated by difficulties in implementing parallel and
distributed systems. There is work going on at a lot of places now. However
the peculiar blend of performance concerns and software concerns usually
falls between two different communities. Separately, the communities are
making rather slow progress, so a workshop to bring them together would
be valuable to both.
General Chair... Connie U. Smith, Performance Engineering Services,
Santa Fe (cusmith@perfeng.com), Phone: 1-505-988-3811, Fax: 1-505-983-3114
Program Co-Chair for performance analysis... Murray Woodside, Carleton
University (cmw@sce.carleton.ca), Phone: 1-613-520-5721, Fax: 1-613-520-5727
Program Co-Chair for software engineering... Paul Clements, Software
Engineering Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University (clements@sei.cmu.edu),
Phone: 1-512-453-1471, Fax: 1-512-268-5758
Tutorial Chair... Pankaj Garg, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Garg@hpl.hp.com
If you would like to be kept informed, please email to us!
Issues
The workshop should address questions such as:
- Process steps and tools for software performance engineering; economics
- Assessment of when to model (risk assessment)
- Design patterns and their performance impact
- How to obtain performance analysis early in the life cycle, as well
as late. This may exploit some kind of modelling, and there is new research
on models related to software... so:
- Better models for predicting performance from software designs (analytic,
simulation)
- How to get better value from our efforts (better use of data gathered
by measurement, easier building of models, model or data interchange)
- Good practices in architecture and design, modelling, measuring, and
tuning.
- QoS for Distributed Applications: design, monitoring, management
- Experience papers
Intended Participation
With this combination of contributions we are looking for a lively discussion
of open questions as well as definitive summary of the state of knowledge.
We are also looking for a balance (as equal as possible) between industrial
and academic participants. We expect the majority of full papers to come
from academics, the majority of short papers to come from industry, and
position papers to come from both.
A Workshop
on Software and Performance (WOSP98)
Last modified: Tuesday January 20 14:00:00 EDT 1998