24th UK Performance Engineering Workshop
24th UK Performance Engineering Workshop
UKPEW 2008 deadline moved to 14 may 2008. More details at http://ukpew.org/
UKPEW 2008 will be held at Imperial College London, 3-4 July. Submission deadline for papers is 25 April 2008. More details on the website.
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UKPEW is the leading UK forum for the presentation of all aspects of performance modelling and analysis of computer and telecommunication systems. Original papers are invited on all relevant topics but papers on or related to the subjects listed below are particularly welcome.
This workshop is the primary event at which the UK performance community can get together to present and discuss their work. Whilst primarily aimed at UK based performance engineers, we also welcome contributions from researchers working in other countries and those whose interest in performance is derived from experience in other fields. It provides an ideal opportunity for academics, industrialists and PhD students to relate experience and to present both finished work and work in progress. The event has been organised to sustain the atmosphere of informality that previous UKPEWs have fostered. As well as sessions for presenting the papers submitted, it will also be possible to organise a session of short presentations of work in progress. This year there will be a special track for papers related to present and future economic use of the Grid.
The Workshop Co-Chairs are pleased to announce that the keynote speakers for UKPEW2008 will be Professor Henri Bal from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Adam Grummitt from Metron Technology Ltd. Professor Bal's specialisation is parallel and distributed computing; he has, for example, published work (along with John Romein) on the use of a 144-processor parallel compute to solve the game of Awari, which required the exploration of 889,063,398,406 board positions. Metron produces performance management software packages which provide measurement, analysis, planning and reporting capabilities on a wide range of operating systems. Adam Grummitt is currently chair of the UK Computer Measurement Group and is also very active in the IT Infrastructure Library arena.
The proceedings will be published as part of the Department of Computing Technical Reports at Imperial College London. After the workshop, the authors of a selection of papers will be invited to submit extended versions to be considered for a special issue of IET Software.
Papers will be accepted on the basis of an extended abstract (3–6 pages) or (ideally) a draft paper (8–12 pages) which should be submitted to 2008-submission@ukpew.org no later than 14 May 2008. Electronic submission is preferred. Notification of acceptance will be given by 23 May 2008 together with instructions for the preparation of camera-ready copy.
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Organising Committee & Programme Chairs:
Steering Committee:
All enquiries should be directed to 2008@ukpew.org.