ICPE 2017

8th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2017)

 Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS, SIGSOFT, and SPEC RG

SCOPE AND TOPICS

The goal of the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) is to integrate theory and practice in the field of performance engineering by providing a forum for sharing ideas and experiences between industry and academia. Nowadays, complex systems of all types, like Web-based systems, data centers and cloud infrastructures, social networks, peer-to-peer, mobile and wireless systems, cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things, real-time and embedded systems, have increasingly distributed and dynamic system architectures that provide high flexibility, however, also increase the complexity of managing end-to-end application performance.
ICPE brings together researchers and industry practitioners to share and present their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on performance engineering of software and systems, including performance measurement, modeling, benchmark design, and run-time performance management. The focus is both on classical metrics such as response time, throughput, resource utilization, and (energy) efficiency, as well as on the relationship of such metrics to other system properties including but not limited to scalability, elasticity, availability, reliability, and security.

This year's main theme is cost-effective performance engineering, where cost has a wide interpretation including measures such as effort and energy in addition to traditional performance measures.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Performance modeling of software

• Languages and ontologies
• Methods and tools
• Relationship/integration/tradeoffs with other QoS attributes
• Analytical, simulation and statistical modeling methodologies
• Model validation and calibration techniques
• Automatic model extraction
• Performance modeling and analysis tools

Performance and software development processes/paradigms

• Software performance patterns and anti-patterns
• Software/performance tool interoperability (models and data interchange formats)
• Performance-oriented design, implementation and configuration management
• Software Performance Engineering and Model-Driven Development
• Gathering, interpreting and exploiting software performance annotations and data
• System sizing and capacity planning techniques
• (Model-driven) Performance requirements engineering
• Relationship between performance and architecture
• Collaboration of development and operation (DevOps) for performance
• Performance and agile methods
• Performance in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA)
• Performance of micro-service architectures and containers

Performance measurement, monitoring and analysis

• Performance measurement and monitoring techniques
• Analysis of measured application performance data
• Application tracing and profiling
• Workload characterization techniques
• Experimental design
• Tools for performance testing, measurement, profiling and tuning

Benchmarking

• Performance metrics and benchmark suites
• Benchmarking methodologies
• Development of parameterizable, flexible benchmarks
• Benchmark workloads and scenarios
• Use of benchmarks in industry and academia

Run-time performance management

• Use of models at run-time
• Online performance prediction
• Autonomic resource management
• Utility-based optimization
• Capacity management

Power and performance, energy efficiency

• Power consumption models and management techniques
• Tradeoffs between performance and energy efficiency
• Performance-driven resource and power management

Performance modeling and evaluation in different environments and application domains

• Web-based systems, e-business, Web services
• Big data systems, data analytics systems, and other data analysis systems
• Internet of Things
• Social networks
• Cyber-physical systems
• Industrial Internet (Industry 4.0)
• Virtualization and cloud computing
• Autonomous/adaptive systems
• Transaction-oriented systems
• Communication networks
• Parallel and distributed systems
• Embedded systems
• Multi-core systems
• Cluster and grid computing environments
• High performance computing
• Event-based systems
• Real-time and multimedia systems
• Peer-to-peer, mobile and wireless systems

All other topics related to performance of software and systems.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chairs

• Walter Binder, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland
• Vittorio Cortellessa, Università dell'Aquila, Italy Research Program Chairs
• Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, USA Industry Program Chairs
• Meikel Poess, Oracle, USA

Tutorials Chair

• Valeria Cardellini, Università di Roma Torvergata, Italy Workshops Chairs
• Hanspeter Mössenböck, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria
• Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy Posters and Demos Chair
• Lubomir Bulej, Charles University, Czech Republic Awards Chairs
• Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic
• Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Canada Local Organization Chair
• Antinisca Di Marco, Università dell'Aquila, Italy Publicity Chairs
• Andrea Rosà, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland
• Diego Perez, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Finance Chair
• André van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart Publication and Registration Chair
• Davide Arcelli, Università dell'Aquila, Italy Web Site Chair
• Cathy Sandifer, SPEC, USA