Call for Papers

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Call for Papers
SPEC 2009
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January 25, 2009
Austin, Texas
www.spec.org/workshops/2009/austin/

The goal of the SPEC 2009 Workshop is to provide a forum for academia and industry to discuss the practice of system performance evaluation by the sharing of ideas and experiences. The workshop will bring together developers and users of performance evaluation software and will be held on Sunday, January 25, 2009 in Austin, Texas, in conjunction with SPEC\’s Annual meeting.

Presentations will center on novel performance evaluation strategies; new benchmark design; use of benchmarks in industry, academia and government; and workload characterization. While traditional areas of performance evaluation are solicited, papers addressing the emerging areas related to evaluating power, reliability, virtualization scalability and security are also of interest.

Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, (SPEC) invites the performance evaluation community to submit full papers and extended abstracts on a range of topics relevant to performance evaluation. The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag (pending approval).

Submission guidelines:
Full (20 page) and short (8 page) papers are solicited. Submissions should be formatted according to the LNCS format (see author\’s instructions given on www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this workshop. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format.

Important Dates:
Paper/extended abstract Submission: October 3, 2008
Notification of Acceptances: October 26, 2008
Final Version of Papers: November 9, 2009
Workshop: January 25, 2009

General Chair: Rudi Eigenmann Purdue University
Program Chair: David Kaeli Northeastern University
Publication Chair: Kai Sachs TU Darmstadt

Program Committee
Jose Nelson Amaral – University of Alberta
Umesh Bellur – Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Tom Conte – Georgia Tech
Anton Chernoff – AMD
Lieven Eeckhout – University of Ghent
Rudi Eigenmann – Purdue University
Jose Gonzalez – Intel Barcelona
John Henning – Sun Microsystems
Lizy John – University of Texas at Austin
David Kaeli – Northeastern University
Helen Karatza – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Samuel Kounev – Universitt Karlsruhe (TH)
Tao Li – University of Florida
David Lilja – University of Minnesota
Christoph Lindemann – University of Leipzig
John Mashey – Consultant
Jeffrey Reilly – Intel
Resit Sendag – University of Rhode Island
Erich Strohmaier – Lawrence Berkeley National Labs
Bronis Supinski – Lawrence Livermore National Labs
Petr Tuma – Charles University in Prague

Steering Committee:
Alan Adamson – IBM Canada
Jose Nelson Amaral – University of Alberta
David Bader – Georgia Tech
Rudi Eigenmann – Purdue University
Rema Hariharan – AMD
John Henning – Sun Microsystems
Lizy John – University of Texas at Austin
David Kaeli – Northeastern University
Samuel Kounev – Universitt Karlsruhe (TH)
David Morse – Dell
Kai Sachs – TU Darmstadt

Held in Cooperation with:

IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA)

International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software
ISPASS-2009
Boston, MA
April 19-21, 2009

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society?s TCI, TCCA, and TC-uARCH

The IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software provides a forum for sharing advanced academic and industrial research work focused on performance analysis in the design of computer systems and software.
Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished work for possible presentation at the conference.

Papers are solicited in fields that include the following:

* Performance evaluation methodologies
o Analytical modeling
o Statistical approaches
o Tracing and profiling tools
o Simulation techniques
o Hardware (e.g., FPGA) accelerated simulation
o Hardware performance counter architectures
* Performance analysis
o Performance metrics
o Bottleneck identification and analysis
o Visualization
* Performance analysis of commercial and experimental hardware
o General-purpose microprocessors
o Multi-threaded, multi-core and many-core architectures
o Accelerators and graphics processing units
o Embedded and mobile systems
o Enterprise systems and data centers
o Supercomputers
o Computer networks
* Performance analysis of emerging workloads and software
o Software written in managed languages
o Virtualization and consolidation workloads
o Internet-sector workloads
o Embedded, multimedia, games, telepresence
o Bioinformatics, life sciences, security, biometrics
* Application and system code tuning and optimization
* Confirmations or refutations of important prior results

Next to *research papers*, we also welcome *tool papers* in order to reward tool-building effort and publicize new tools to the community. Tool papers will be judged more so on their potentially wide impact and use than on their research contribution. Tools in any of the above fields of interest are eligible.

See www.ispass.org for submission details.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract due: Oct 3, 2008
Full submission: Oct 10, 2008 ? NO EXTENSION
Rebuttal: Dec 4-5, 2008
Notification: Dec 17, 2008
Final paper due: Feb 25, 2009

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

GENERAL CHAIRS
Dean Tullsen, UC San Diego
Todd Austin, University of Michigan

PROGRAM CHAIR
Lieven Eeckhout, Ghent University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Tor Aamodt, University of British Columbia
Steve Blackburn, Australian National University
Pradip Bose, IBM Research
David Brooks, Harvard University
Derek Chiou, University of Texas at Austin
Bronis R. de Supinski, LLNL
Sudhanva Gurumurthi, University of Virginia
Greg Hamerly, Baylor University
Ravishankar Iyer, Intel
Aamer Jaleel, Intel
Stefanos Kaxiras, University of Patras
Rakesh Kumar, UIUC
Benjamin Lee, Microsoft Research
Charles Lefurgy, IBM
Mikko Lipasti, University of Wisconsin?Madison
Daniel Ortega, HP Labs
Steve Reinhardt, AMD
Scott Rixner, Rice University
Eric Rotenberg, NCSU
Andr=E9 Seznec, IRISA
Tim Sherwood, UC Santa Barbara
Allen Snavely, UC San Diego
Thomas Wenisch, University of Michigan

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR
TBD

PUBLICITY CHAIR
Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Intel

FINANCE CHAIR
Nadeem Malik, IBM

WEB CHAIR
Byeong Kil Lee, TI

PUBLICATIONS CHAIR
Rakesh Kumar, UIUC

WORKSHOPS/TUTORIALS CHAIR
Jun Yang, University of Pittsburgh

REGISTRATION CHAIR
Rajeev Balasubramonian, University of Utah

SUBMISSION AND REVIEW WEB CHAIR
Michiel Ronsse, Ghent University

The 11th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management= (IM 2009) will be held on 1 – 5 June 2009 at Columbia University in New Yo= rk, New York, USA (www.ieee-im.org/2009/). The IM series of conferences has been held in odd-numbered years since 1989 (taking turns with its sibling conference NOMS), and has established itself as the main venue for original research in the area of management, operations and control of networks, networking services, networked applications, and distributed systems. The symposium is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management of Networks and Distributed Systems, and by the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM).
Featuring:
- Technical Sessions
- Invited and Keynote Speakers
- Application sessions
- Panels
- Birds-of-a-feather sessions
- Tutorials
- Satellite Workshops
- Industrial experience track
Authors are invited to submit original contributions (written in English) in PDF format through the JEMS (Journal and Event Management System) at submissoes.sbc.org.br/im2009. Only original, full papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted.

Each submission is limited to 8 pages in IEEE 2-column style (main text in 10-point font). Papers exceeding 8 pages, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review process.

Please use the stylesheet templates provided by IEEE to assure that your proposal is in line with our guidelines. Standard IEEE Transactions templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats found at www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html. If you are using neither Microsoft Word nor Latex, you can use the guidelines provided by a template file.

(Download IM2009_CFP PDF)
Topics of interest that will be given special attention include:

1) Management Technologies – Monitoring – Event correlation and root cause analysis
- Integrated control and management
- Performance and fault management
- Configuration and accounting management
- Resource inventory, planning, and allocation
- Service management and Service-oriented architectures
- Quality-of-Service (QoS) management
- Security management
- Mobility management

2) Management for Most Intereseted Networks, Services and Systems
- Management of Next generation Converged networks and services
- Management of VoIP
- Managing virtual resources and services (VPNs, VLANs)
- Management of Web services, Grids, grid services, and grid applications, ASPs server farms
- Management of Wireless networks (2G, 2.5G, 3G, and beyond, WLANs, PANs)
- Management of Video and broadband cable networks, IP TV, Video on Demand
- Management of content hosting and content delivery networks

3) New Approaches on Management – Theory (control, optimization, economic) for management
- Self and autonomic aspects of management
- Virtualization and its role in management
- Distributed, decentralized, and scalable management
- Information modeling and management using P2P and overlay network for network Management
- Policy and role based management
- Programmable, active, and adaptive management
- Resilience, dependability, and survivability
- Evaluation and benchmarking of management systems and technologies – Biologically-inspired management systems and techniques

Technical Session Papers – Important Dates
- Abstract Registration: 1 August 2008
- Submission: 8 August 2008
- Notification of Acceptance: 15 November 2008
- Camera ready Copy: 15 January 2009

(NOTE: Please plan accordingly !)

1. All submission times are 22:55 EDT (New York Time)
2. No extensions will be granted for paper submissions.

For further information:

* Web: www.ieee-im.org/2009
* e-Mail: IM2009tpcchairs@comsocconferences.org

Third International Workshop on Personalized Networks

pernets.irctr.tudelft.nl/

to be held in conjunction with the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2009) – www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/
January 13, 2008 – Harrah\’s Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library

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*Purpose of this workshop
*The ubiquitous nature of wireless networks has spawned many interesting
applications that were unimagined hitherto.
It has also brought many challenges for the communication and networking community to address.
On one hand we see present day mobile devices are capable of providing many services that required several devices before.
For example, most cell phones nowadays provide high speed data access, still and video cameras, PDA functionality, etc.
These advances in device sophistication and service offerings, including wireless hotspots, have made a difference in the way we communicate. With increased user mobility and user\’s desire to always be connected, we have seen a growing interest in Personal Area Networks (PANs) and Body Area Networks (BANs). These networks can be tuned and applied meaningfully for individual users and their requirements. On the other hand the Internet has changed our way of interacting dramatically.
These two major communication areas are having an in-depth influence on the way we communicate; it is worth considering them \’together\’ as the future communication vehicle.

Personalized Networks is one such future oriented concept where we seek to bring BANs, PANs, WLAN, sensor networks, ad hoc networks, home networks, vehicular networks and the Internet togethe= r onto one platform under one broader vision of future (4G) communication networks. The idea is to enable continuous and seamless connectivity of all the personal devices of a user, information sources, and network enabled controllers in an unobtrusive way, regardless of where these entities are located – be they local or remote.
It is a microcosm of the persons themselves with their associated accessories somewhere on the Internet.
It is equivalent to the Internet presence that has become a prominent concept in the last decade. This advanced overlay network is strongly person oriented and must be ad hoc, intelligent and must behave as a user-friendly virtual intelligent personal assistant to its owner.
It is a personal distributed environment, global in scope that can co-exist on the present day Internet with its active participation.
Such a platform enables many new applications, especially for users with rapidly changing communication demands that often operate in various contexts simultaneously. It can also provide the much needed user-friendliness to many services of today.

There are numerous issues which are challenging to the communication networ= k community in realizing a Personalized Network.
Most of them arise from the lack of current technology to deal in a transparent way with the dynamic and mobile nature of the entities, the unpredictable topology of the network, the power constraints of the mobile devices, and the heterogeneity of the networking and link-level technologies. Therefore, creating a Personalized Network yields new architectures, protocols, algorithms, platforms, middleware, etc.
They take care of addressing, routing, resource and service discovery, the self-organization of the network, the localization of the devices/person, the complex security and privacy requirements, the offering of context awar= e services and service management. Many of these issues, ventured upon earlier under various mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) and mobile network research initiatives, need to be reconsidered in this case.
These technologies have to meet strict requirements with respect to user perception, viable business models, usage of communication bandwidth, protocol complexity, robustness, availability of links and infrastructure, dependability and trust.

Four broader areas under which the presentations are classified:
- Architectures and systems
- End-to-end networking
- Security and privacy
- Operations, administration, management, and provisioning

*Scope of the submission
*We seek original contributions which are aimed at finding solutions to the
problems that are outlined above
towards realization of a Personalized Network. We have identified the following major topics under which we try to categorize the submissions. However, we will consider any other original, interesting, and imaginative ideas and thoughts towards meeting this goal of a Personalized Network.

- The architectural framework of personalized networks
- Context awareness and support
- Resource, service and context discovery
- Self-organization and adaptation
- Addressing and routing
- Interworking between PANs, ad hoc networks, etc, and
infrastructure-based heterogeneous networks
- Mobility of personalized networks
- Security, privacy and accounting
- Zero configuration methods and other enablers for ease-of-use – Dependability – Context-aware and application-driven communication substrates – Interactions between persons through their networks, federations of such networks – Handling of QoS across heterogeneous and dynamically changing link layers – New QoS concepts in personalized networks – Mapping of functional requirements to physical devices and resources – Modeling and simulation of personalized networks – P2P paradigm in personalized networks – Innovative applications or prototypes and demonstrations of such perso= n centric applications are equally valued
*Why should you participate in this workshop?
*Personalized Networks is a concrete vision of the future networks, yet very current, in the field of communications.
It attracts researchers from both wired and wireless domains. This workshop is an ideal platform to share a vision of where we are heading, interact, and strongly advocate an exciting new avenu= e for researchers and practitioners in the field of communication. Further, the final program will consist of carefully selected – with at least three peer reviews – and high quality submissions with a large emphasis on new ideas rather than incremental contributions to the field.
Submissions of shorter versions of full papers that can be submitted to other conferences/journal in the near future are discouraged.

*Contact Information
*Email: wpn@ewi.tudelft.nl

*General chairperson
*Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

*Program Co-Chairpersons
*Sonia Heemstra de Groot, University of Twente, Netherlands
Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA

*Organizing Committee
*Martin Jacobsson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
R. V. Prasad, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

*Publicity Chairperson
*Paolo Bellavista, Universit=E0 degli Studi di Bologna, Italy

Call for Papers: ESTIMedia 2008

6th IEEE Workshop on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia October 23-24, 2008, Atlanta, Georgia

IEEE ESTIMedia \’08 is organized as part of the Embedded Systems Week 2008

www.science.uva.nl/events/ESTIMedia08/

Today, the design process for high-end multimedia systems has become a crucial bottleneck due to the increasing complexity of both the software and the underlying hardware, coupled with shortened time-to-market pressures. While there has been a notable growth in the use and applications of multimedia systems and in the evolution of system-on- chip design technology, there are still enormous opportunities for improving design productivity in this domain. Given this backdrop, the aim of this workshop is to bring together people from different multimedia-related research communities (e.g, software, architectures, real-time systems, DSP, compilers, multimedia applications) who have worked separately, but did not interact sufficiently to address the challenges facing the design of hardware and software for multimedia systems.

After a very successful debut in 2003, consolidated in successive years, we hope that this sixth edition will present a good opportunity for specialists from academia and industry to contribute to this exciting research area. The program will bring together original work from both, academic and industrial research and development. As in the previous editions, papers will be accepted for 30-min oral presentation followed by interactive poster sessions.

All accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings to be published by the IEEE.

A special issue of Springer\’s Journal of Signal Processing Systems with the best papers from ESTIMedia \’07 will appear this year and a similar journal special issue is planned for ESTIMedia \’08.

Areas of Interest (but not restricted to)
- Specification and modeling of multimedia systems
- Multimedia systems design methodologies and case studies
- Circuits and architectures for embedded multimedia architectures – Multimedia processors and reconfigurable architectures – Emerging trends (SoCs, NoCs, Game applications, etc.) – Validation and verification
- Software optimization and compiler techniques
- Timing aspects of media streams
- Scheduling of media processing
- Resource and QoS management methods
- Temporal estimation and protection of media streams
- Real-time kernels, OS and middleware support

Paper Submission Guidelines

Both research and application-oriented papers are welcome. Research papers should describe original research, such as new ideas, promising approaches and experiences with practical systems. Application-oriented papers should describe interesting technical aspects of real-life applications, prototypes, experiences, and standards. All papers should be submitted electronically via the workshop webpage. Papers must be in PDF format and should include (1) title, (2) authors and affiliation, (3) e-mail address of the contact author. Submissions must be limited to 6 pages, single-spaced, double-column IEEE format with 10-point fonts.

Papers deviating significantly from these paper size and font
constraints
may be rejected without review. All submitted papers should have original content that has not been previously published in other conferences or journals.

Any questions regarding the submission process may be directed to the TPC Co-Chairs Petru Eles (petel@ida.liu.se) and Andy D. Pimentel (andy@science.uva.nl).

Important Dates
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Submission Deadline: June 30, 2008
Author notification: August 22
Camera-ready version: September 1
ESTIMedia Workshop: October 23-24

Organizers
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General Chair
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Samarjit Chakraborty, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Past General Chair
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Soonhoi Ha, Seoul National University, Korea

Technical Program Chairs
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Petru Eles, Linkoping University, Sweden
Andy D. Pimentel, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Technical Program Committee Members
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Twan Basten, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands
Mladen Berekovic, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland at College Park, USA Naehyuck Chang, Seoul National University, Korea Kristof Denolf, IMEC, Belgium Nikil Dutt, University of California at Irvine, USA
Rolf Ernst, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Heiko Falk, University of Dortmund, Germany
Gerhard Fohler, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
Marisol Garcia-Valls, University Carlos III, Spain
Catherine Gebotys, University Waterloo, Canada
Soonhoi Ha, Seoul National University, Korea
Joerg Henkel, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Tomas Henriksson, NXP, The Netherlands
Seongsoo Hong, Seoul National University, Korea
Erwin de Kock, NXP, The Netherlands
Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Ville Lappalainen, Nokia, Finland
Youn-Long Lin, Natl. Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Radu Marculescu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Miguel Miranda, IMEC, Belgium
Kostas Masselos, Imperial College London, UK
Gabriela Nicolescu, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
Maurizio Palesi, University of Catania, Italy
Massoud Pedram, University Southern California, USA
Mihaela van der Schaar, University of California at Los Angeles, USA Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California at Irvine, USA Wayne Wolf, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Sungyoo Yoo, Samsung Electronics, Korea Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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Dr. Andy D. Pimentel
Computer Systems Architecture group
University of Amsterdam
Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ, Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel. +31 (0)20 5257578
Email (CHANGED!): A.D.Pimentel@uva.nl
www.science.uva.nl/~andy/