Call for Papers
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Special issue of Performance Evaluation journal on the topic "Software and
Performance"
Guest Editors:
Elaine Weyuker, ATT Research
Murray Woodside, Carleton University
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Important Dates:
Guest Editors receive emailed titles and abstracts by 12-Jan-09
Full paper submissions submitted into Manuscript Central by 19-Jan-09
First round of reviews completed by 19-Mar-09
Major revisions due by 19-May-09
Second round of reviews completed by 19-Jun-09
Minor revisions due by 3-Jul-09
Final acceptances given to Authors by 10-Jul-09
Publication materials due by 24-Jul-09
Publication tentatively in late 2009 issue
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Performance is an important and complex aspect of software systems which causes
great difficulties to the developers and operators of these systems. The tools
and techniques available to analyze performance, diagnose problems and relate
them to causes in the software, and to improve performance cry out for
improvement. The problem is made more difficult by the complexity of modern
software systems (autonomous, mobile, distributed) and by stringent
quantitative requirements including performance and controlled use of energy.
The architecture, design and configuration of the software, and its use of
software platforms such as databases and middleware, are important determinants
of performance.
The aim of this special issue is to publish novel research that contributes to
methodologies, techniques and tools for performance analysis and engineering of
software systems. Its scope covers the theoretical foundations, models and
modeling languages, simulation, run-time monitoring and analysis, performance
testing, causal analysis, methods for problem diagnosis, methods for providing
high-performance architectures, designs and deployments, software tools and
case studies.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following areas:
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..Performance modeling of software
-languages and ontologies, methods and tools, composing models,
-capturing user behavior.
..Performance measurement and analysis
-software performance testing,
-application performance measurement and monitoring,
-analysis of measured application performance data,
..Performance and other quality attributes
-relationship/integration/tradeoffs with other QoS attributes,
-relationship/integration/tradeoffs with cost and schedule,
..Performance and software development
-software performance patterns and antipatterns,
-software/performance tool interoperability (models, data
interchange),
-performance oriented design, implementation and configuration
management,
..Software Performance Engineering
-gathering, interpreting and using performance annotations and data,
-optimization techniques
..Performance evaluation in application domains (e.g. Web Services,
Middleware, Component-Based/Autonomous/Mobile/Intelligent/Adaptive/Embedded
Systems)
Papers are solicited that describe basic or applied research on any of the
above topics. Abstracts should be emailed to both guest editors at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED],ca
followed by full paper submissions (a week later) via:
http://ees.elsevier.com/peva/
Submissions must conform to the journal's submission guidelines and must not
have been published previously or be currently under consideration for
publication in any other journals or conferences.
Significant extensions to substantive papers published in conferences are also
welcome. Selected papers from WOSP 2008 will be invited to submit an extended
version to this special issue. Such papers should be submitted together with
the conference version and a summary of extensions.
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Murray Woodside
Distinguished Research Professor
Dept of Systems and Computer Engineering,
Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa K1S 5B6, Canada.
(613)-520-5721.....fax (613)[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/woodside.html)
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