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JOINT CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS, POSTERS/DEMOS, TUTORIAL,
DATA CHALLENGE AND WIP/VISION PAPERS

ICPE 2022
13th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering

Sponsored by
ACM SIGMETRICS and ACM SIGSOFT in Cooperation with SPEC

Beijing, China (held virtually)
April, 9-13, 2022

https://icpe2022.spec.org/

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The International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) is the
leading international forum for presenting and discussing novel ideas,
innovations, trends, and experiences in the field of performance engineering.
Today’s systems are complex, rely increasingly on dynamic architectures,
and raise continuously important challenges related to end-to-end
performance management.
ICPE brings together researchers and practitioners to report state-of-the-art
and in-progress research on performance engineering of software and systems,
including but not limited to performance modeling, analysis, measurement,
benchmark design, and run-time performance management.

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POSTERS, DEMOS, TUTORIAL, DATA CHALLENGE, AND WIP/VISION PAPERS

The following ICPE 2022 tracks with the given submission deadlines are
still open:

- NEW: Data Challenge (Double Blind)
- Tutorials
- Poster and Demo Papers
- Work in Progress and Vision Papers

Important Dates for ICPE early year tracks:
Submission: Jan 15, 2022
Notification: Feb 24, 2022

See https://icpe2022.spec.org/tracks-and-submissions/ for details.

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WORKSHOPS

The following workshops are organized in conjunction with ICPE 2022:

LTB 2022: The Tenth International Workshop on Load Testing and Benchmarking of Software Systems
https://ltb2022.eecs.yorku.ca/
HotCloudPerf 2022: The Fifth Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance
https://hotcloudperf.spec.org/
PECS 2022: The Second Workshop on Performance and Energy-efficiency in Concurrent Systems
https://pecs-workshop.github.io/2022/
PANDA 2022: The First International Workshop on Performance-Data Analytics and Data-Management
https://panda-workshop.github.io/
ITSMS 2022: The First International Workshop on Information Technology Storage Management Specification
https://itsms-22.github.io/
WOSP-C 2022: The Seventh Workshop on Challenges in Performance Methods for Software Development
https://wosp-c.github.io/wosp-c-22/

A brief overview of all workshops is given below. For more information,
visit the conference website at https://icpe2022.spec.org/workshops/

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LTB 2022: The Tenth International Workshop on Load Testing and Benchmarking of Software Systems

ABSTRACT

Software systems (e.g., smartphone apps, desktop applications, telecommunication infrastructures, cloud and enterprise systems, etc.) have strict requirements on software performance. Failure to meet these requirements may cause business losses, customer defection, brand damage and other serious consequences. In addition to conventional functional testing, the performance of these systems must be verified through load testing or benchmarking to ensure quality service. Load testing and benchmarking software systems are difficult tasks, which requires a great understanding of the system under test and customer behavior. 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). This one-day workshop brings together software testing researchers, practitioners and tool developers to discuss the challenges and opportunities of conducting research on load testing and benchmarking software systems.

WORKSHOP WEBSITE INCLUDING A DETAILED CALL FOR PAPERS
https://ltb2022.eecs.yorku.ca

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper abstract registration: Jan 9, 2022
Paper submission: Jan 15, 2022
Presentation track
(extended abstract): Feb 6, 2022
Notification: Feb 24, 2022

SUBMISSION

We solicit two tracks of submissions: 1) Research or industry papers (short papers with maximum 4 pages; full papers with maximum 8 pages); 2) Presentation track for industry or research talks (maximum 700 words extended abstract). Research/Industry papers should follow the standard ACM SIG proceedings format and need to be submitted electronically via EasyChair. Extended abstracts for the presentation track need to be submitted as "abstract only'' submissions via EasyChair as well. Accepted papers will be published in the ICPE 2022 Proceedings. Submissions can be research papers, position papers, case studies or experience reports.

ORGANIZERS (CHAIRS)

Alexander Podelko, MongoDB, USA
Heng Li, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
Nima Mahmoudi, University of Alberta, Canada

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HotCloudPerf 2022: 5th Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance

ABSTRACT
The HotCloudPerf workshop proposes a meeting venue for academics and practitioners, from experts to trainees, in the field of cloud computing performance. The new understanding of cloud computing covers the full computational continuum from data centers to edge resources to IoT sensors and devices. The workshop aims to engage this community and to lead to the development of new methodological aspects for gaining a deeper understanding not only of cloud performance, but also of cloud operation and behavior, through diverse quantitative evaluation tools, including benchmarks, metrics, and workload generators. The workshop focuses on novel cloud properties such as elasticity, performance isolation, dependability, and other non-functional system properties, in addition to classical performance-related metrics such as response time, throughput, scalability, and efficiency.

The HotCloudPerf workshop is technically sponsored by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)’s Research Group (RG) and is organized annually by the RG Cloud Group.

WORKSHOP WEBSITE INCLUDING A DETAILED CALL FOR PAPERS:
https://hotcloudperf.spec.org/

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission: Jan 20, 2022
Notification: Feb 25, 2022

SUBMISSION
HotCloudPerf2022 accepts the following types of contributions: 1. Full-papers (8 pages including references) 2. Short-papers (4 pages including references) 3. Talk only (1-2 pages, not included in the proceedings). All contributions are required to be submitted via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=hotcloudperf2022

ORGANIZERS (CHAIRS):
Cristina L. Abad, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador,
Simon Eismann, University of Würzburg, Germany
Alexandru Iosup, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands

To contact the chairs, you can email: hotcloudperf2022@easychair.org

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PECS 2022: Workshop on Performance and Energy-efficiency in Concurrent Systems

ABSTRACT
Concurrent systems, based on (distributed) multi/many-core processing units, are the nowadays reference computing architecture. The (continuously-growing) level of hardware parallelism they offer has led these platforms to play a central role at any scale, ranging from data centers, to personal (mobile) devices. Optimizing performance and/or ensuring energy efficiency when running complex software stacks on top of these systems is extremely challenging due to several aspects, like data dependencies or resource sharing (and interference) among application threads, as well as VMs. Furthermore, hardware accelerators like GPGPUs or FPGAs introduce a level of heterogeneity that can potentially offer further opportunities for combined gain in performance and energy efficiency, if correctly exploited.

WORKSHOP WEBSITE INCLUDING A DETAILED CALL FOR PAPERS:
https://pecs-workshop.github.io/2022/

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract registration: Jan 10, 2022
Submission: Jan 15, 2022
Notification: Feb 05, 2022

SUBMISSION
The page limit is 8 pages including references (up to 4 pages including references for short papers). Reviews are double-blind. Submissions are made via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pecs2022

ORGANIZERS (CHAIRS):
Alessandro Pellegrini, National Research Council, Rome, Italy
Romolo Marotta, Research Fellow, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

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PANDA 2022: The First International Workshop on Performance-Data Analytics and Data-Management

ABSTRACT

The field of data analytics/science has grown significantly in recent years as a means to make sense of the vast amount of available data. It has come through every aspect of computer science and engineering and is heavily involved in business decision-making. In the field of performance engineering, data analytics is for instance used for performance prediction and hence as a baseline instrument for controlling and improving the behaviour of a system.
Efficient and successful performance engineering depends on the definition of meaningful experiments, the choice of correct evaluation methodologies, the use of the correct algorithms, and also includes sophisticated data management. Only the combination of all these aspects leads to high reproducibility and reliable results.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from various domains to foster the growth of an active community to advance the methods for automated performance engineering. These domains include performance engineering, data analytics, data management, and system automation. Furthermore, another goal is to extend the number of available OpenAccess data sets of systems performance data.