*** IFIP WG 7.3 PERFORMANCE 2020 ***

 

38th International Symposium on

 

Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurement and Evaluation

 

 

 

November 2nd-6th, 2020, Milan, Italy

 

https://www.performance2020.deib.polimi.it/

 

 

 

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** UPDATE: PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENSION **

Due to the recent Coronavirus outbreak and in response to the numerous requests received, the IFIP WG 7.3 PERFORMANCE 2020 conference organizers have decided to extend the

deadline to submit papers for the Congress.  The new deadline for papers submission is now May 24, 2020 Anywhere on Earth.

 

 

** UPDATE: COVID-19 **

 

IFIP WG 7.3 PERFORMANCE 2020 conference organizers have the

 

safety and health of our community as a top priority. We are continuously

 

monitoring the COVID-19 situation from local authorities and the World

 

Health Organization.  The conference is six-month away, and we hope

 

that COVID-19 emergency will pass over and the conference will be held

 

in November, as planned.  However, if necessary, alternative solutions,

 

such as postponement and remote presentations will be adopted.

 

In any case, timely publication of the papers at journal special issues as

 

indicated below is confirmed.  More information will be provided to authors

 

and attendees after the due date of acceptance notification.

 

 

 

 

 

** UPDATE: SPECIAL ISSUES **

 

Regular papers will be published in a special issue of the Elsevier

 

journal Performance Evaluation (PEVA).  Alternatively, authors may opt-out

 

in favor of submission to other special issues in journals related to

 

Performance Evaluation, Operations Research and Applied Probability.

 

 

 

Special Issues will appear in:

 

 

 

- ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing

 

Systems

 

  (TOMPECS, https://dl.acm.org/journal/tompecs )

 

 

 

- Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications

 

  (QUESTA, https://www.springer.com/journal/11134 )

 

 

 

- Stochastic Models

 

  ( https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/lstm20/current )

 

 

 

- Stochastic Systems

 

  ( https://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/stsy )

 

 

 

 

 

** UPDATE: TUTORIALS **

 

The following tutorials have also been announced:

 

 

 

- Reliability and Availability Modeling in Practice, by

 

  Prof. Kishor Trivedi (Duke University, North Carolina, USA) and

 

  Prof. Andrea Bobbio (Universit�� del Piemonte Orientale, Italy)

 

 

 

- Load balancing, redundancy, and multi-type job and server systems, by

 

  Prof. Urtzi Ayesta (IRIT, Toulouse, France)

 

 

 

- AI4NETS ��� AI/ML for data communication Networks by

 

  Dr. Pedro Casas (Austrian Institute of Technology, Leoben, Austria)

 

 

 

 

 

** CONFERENCE TOPICS **

 

The IFIP Performance conference aims to bring together researchers

 

interested in understanding and improving the performance of computing and

 

communication systems by means of state-of-the-art quantitative models and

 

solution techniques.  Research papers on the design of algorithms,

 

mathematical analysis and modeling, simulation and measurement techniques

 

for computer systems or communication networks are solicited.

 

 

 

Topics of interest include the following.

 

 

 

Performance-oriented methodologies including:

 

 

 

- Stochastic modelling, statistical analysis and simulation

 

- Capacity planning, resource allocation, routing, scheduling and

 

  Quality of Service

 

- Energy-efficient computing and networking

 

- Computer architectures and operating systems

 

- Network architectures, protocols and congestion control

 

- Storage systems and datacenters

 

 

 

 

 

Evaluation techniques, and algorithms for:

 

 

 

- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

 

- Blockchains and crypto-currency

 

- Cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things, fog computing

 

- Data centers, content delivery, cloud computing and virtualization

 

- Internet and web services

 

- Network economics and markets

 

- Security systems

 

- Social networks, multimedia systems and smart grid

 

- Wireless, ad-hoc and cellular networks

 

 

 

 

 

** IMPORTANT DATES **

 

Abstract submission:     May 17th, 2020

 

Full paper submission:   May 24th, 2020

 

Notification to authors: July 19th, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

** PAPER SUBMISSION **

 

Performance 2020 accepts submissions in two categories:

 

- Regular papers: 12 pages

 

- Short papers: 6 pages

 

 

 

Regular  papers should not exceed 12 pages double-column and single-spaced

 

including figures, tables and references in standard ACM format. Short 

 

papers are limited to 6 pages.  In addition (both for regular and short

 

paper submissions), a 2-page appendix is permitted, which is not included

 

in the page-count. Papers must be submitted electronically in printable

 

pdf form. Templates for the standard ACM format can be found at

 

https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Papers must follow the ACM format. Authors should use the "sigconf" proceedings template. No changes to margins, spacing, or font sizes are allowed from those specified by the style files. Papers violating the formatting guidelines will be returned without review.

 

 

 

Authors of rejected Sigmetrics 2020 papers are invited to submit a revised

 

version of their paper, which would then be reviewed again as new by at

 

least one of its Sigmetrics reviewers to aid consistency. The authors are

 

allowed to include a response to the Sigmetrics reviews in a

 

clearly-marked appendix that will not count against the page limit.

 

 

 

Papers can be submitted at

 

https://easychair.org/account/signin?l=3dlDq9ce6SdbKRGnNTIXxI#

 

All submissions will be reviewed using a double-blind review process.  The

 

identity of authors and referees will not be revealed to each other. To

 

ensure double-blind reviewing, authors names and affiliations should not

 

appear in the paper and bibliographic references should be made in such a

 

way as to preserve author anonymity.

 

 

 

Warning: It is ACM policy not to allow double submissions, where the same

 

paper is submitted to more than one conference/journal concurrently. Any

 

double submissions detected will be rejected immediately from all

 

conferences/journals involved.

 

 

 

Accepted short papers (limited to 6 pages) and abstracts of accepted

 

regular papers will be published in a special issue of the ACM Performance

 

Evaluation Review (PER).

 

 

 

 

 

** SPECIAL ISSUES **

 

Regular papers will be published in a special issue of the Elsevier

 

journal Performance Evaluation (PEVA).

 

 

 

Alternatively, authors may opt-out in favor of submission to other special

 

issues in journals related to Performance Evaluation, Operations Research

 

and Applied Probability.

 

 

 

Eligible papers are:

 

- extensions of short-papers and

 

- long papers that opt-out of publication in Performance Evaluation (PEVA).

 

 

 

 

 

Authors need to make sure that their work falls within the scope of the

 

respective journal. All the papers will be reviewed according to the

 

standards of the journal.

 

 

 

Special Issues will appear in:

 

 

 

1. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing

 

Systems (TOMPECS).

 

 

 

The editors will invite the authors of a few papers (short or long) to

 

submit a full-length manuscript.  Prepare your manuscript using the same

 

manuscript preparation guidelines as the ones for regular TOMPECS

 

submissions.

 

 

 

2. Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications (QUESTA)

 

 

 

All conference papers (short and long papers that opt-out of PEVA) may

 

submit to the SI.  The conference version of the paper published in PER

 

should be no more than 6 pages.  Accepted full papers that opt out of PEVA

 

will have to be shortened by the authors if they wish to have their paper

 

submitted to Queueing Systems.  Prepare your manuscript using the same

 

manuscript preparation guidelines as the ones for regular QUESTA

 

submissions.

 

 

 

3. Stochastic Models

 

 

 

The conference version of the paper published in PER should be no more

 

than 6 pages.  Accepted full papers that opt out of PEVA will have to be

 

shortened by the authors if they wish to have their paper submitted to

 

Stochastic Models.  Prepare your manuscript using the same manuscript

 

preparation guidelines as the ones for regular Stochastic Models

 

submissions.

 

 

 

4. Stochastic Systems

 

 

 

The conference version of the paper published in PER should be no more

 

than 6 pages.  Accepted full papers that opt out of PEVA will have to be

 

shortened by the authors if they wish to have their paper submitted to

 

Stochastic Systems.  Prepare your manuscript using the same manuscript

 

preparation guidelines as the ones for regular Stochastic Systems

 

submissions.

 

 

 

 

 

** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE **

 

General Chair: Danilo Ardagna (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

 

 

 

Program Committee Co-Chairs:

 

Jim Dai (CUHK, Shenzhen, China and Cornell University, USA)

 

Peter Harrison (Imperial College London, UK)

 

Nidhi Hegde (University of Alberta, Canada)

 

 

 

Steering Committee:

 

Sem Borst , Vice-Chair, IFIP WG 7.3, TU Eindhoven and Bell Labs NOKIA

 

Mark S. Squillante, Chair, IFIP WG 7.3, IBM Research

 

Benny Van Houdt, Secretary, IFIP WG 7.3, University of Antwerp

 

 

 

Publication Chair

 

Zhenhua Liu, Stony Brook University, USA

 

 

 

Workshop Chair

 

Leana Golubchik, University of Southern California, USA

 

Marco Paolieri, University of Southern California, USA

 

 

 

Tutorial Chairs

 

Michela Meo, Politecnico Torino, Italy

 

Marco Mellia, Politecnico Torino, Italy

 

 

 

Travel grant Chairs

 

Marco Gribaudo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Riccardo Lancellotti, Universit�� di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

 

Ana Paula Couto da Silva, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

 

 

 

Publicity Chairs

 

Manjesh Kumar Hanawal, IIT Bombay, India

 

Cristina Rottondi, Politecnico Torino, Italy

 

Marco Paolieri, University of Southern California, USA

 

Daniel Sadoc Menasche, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

Weina Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

 

 

 

 

 

Technical Program Committee:

 

TPC available at the Performance 2020 web site at

 

https://www.performance2020.deib.polimi.it/?page_id=89

 

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