VALUETOOLS 2009 Fourth International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools Sponsored by ICST and Create-Net October 20-22, 2009 - Pisa, Italy https://valuetools.org In technical cooperation with ACM SIGMETRICS, SCS, and MIMOS Important dates: ---------------------- Full papers due: April 20, 2009 ** EXTENDED to April 30, 2009, 23:59 CET (hard) ** Notification of acceptance: July 6, 2009 Final version due: July 27, 2009 Scope ---------------------- In recent years, a range of performance evaluation methodologies and tools has been developed within various research communities for the purposes of evaluation, design, and model reduction. The aim of the Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools conference is to build bridges between these communities, bringing theory and practice together. Topics ---------------------- Topics include, but are not limited to: A. Performance evaluation techniques o Advanced simulation tools - Simulation of rare events - Parallel/distributed simulations - Variance reduction techniques - Large deviations - Hybrid system simulation o Discrete event systems - Petri nets - Max-plus algebra - Automata, timed automata o Queueing theory - Markovian queues and networks - Network calculus - Analytical methods - Approximation methods - (In)Sensitivity - Dynamic Fluid Models - Diffusion models - Dam processes - Perturbation approaches - Control of Queues o Other stochastic models - Stochastic geometry - Long-range dependence - Self-similarity - Point processes - Traffic models and measurements o Other topics - Supervisory control - Reliability/performability tools - Neural networks and decision tools - Game theory and pricing - Resource allocation - Complex Networks B. Applications - Computer networks (including peer-to-peer systems and traffic control services) - Computer systems (e.g., grid computing) - Communication systems - Wireless networks (including MAC and routing protocols, cellular networks, Ad Hoc/Sensor etc.) - Distributed systems - Road traffic and transportation systems - Public utility networks - Manufacturing systems and supply chains - Call centers - Economic, biological and social systems Submission ---------------------- Authors are invited to submit papers of up to 10 pages in a PDF file, complying with the ACM conference proceedings format, through Easychair (http://www.easychair.org). Each paper will be peer reviewed for quality and correctness by at least three reviewers. Only original papers, written in English, which have not been published previously elsewhere, and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere, will be accepted. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present the work at the conference. Publication and awards ---------------------- The event is organized by ICST in cooperation with the ACM Special Interest Group on performance evaluation (SIGMETRICS), the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS) and Movimento Italiano Modellazione e Simulazione (MIMOS). Accepted papers will be made available in the ACM Digital Library and EU-DL. Best papers, after further reviews, will be considered for publication in a special issue of the Performance Evaluation Journal and on the Discrete Events Dynamic Systems Journal. A Best Paper and Best Student Paper will be selected by peer reviews and will be acknowledged with awards presented during the social event. Co-Located Workshops ---------------------- The following workshops are co-located with VALUETOOLS 2009. Their CFP can be found at the webpages below. - SMCTools, The 4th International Workshop on Tools for solving Structured Markov Chains (http://www.smctools.org) - NSTOOLS 2009, International Workshop on Network Simulation Tools (http://www.nstools.org) - WSNPerf, 1st Internatial Workshop on Performance Methodologies and Tools for Wireless Sensor Networks (http://www.wsnperf.org) - ROSSA 2009, 1st International Workshop on Run-time mOdels for Self-managing Systems and Applications (http://rossa2009.org) - GameComm, The 3rd International Workshop on Game Theory in Communication Networks (http://www.game-comm.org) Steering Committee ---------------------- Imrich Chlamtac (Co-Chair) Create-Net Research Association and University of Trento, Italy Eitan Altman (Co-Chair) INRIA, France Luciano Lenzini University of Pisa, Italy Sean Meyn University of Illinois, US Daniele Miorandi Create-Net Research Association, Italy Stavros Toumpis University of Cyprus, Cyprus Uri Yechiali Tel Aviv University, Israel Organizing Committee ------------------------ * Conference General Chair Giovanni Stea - University of Pisa, Italy * Technical Program Co-Chairs Jean Mairesse, CNRS, University Paris 7, France Jose' Fernando Mendes, University of Aveiro, Portugal * Local Chairs Daniele Migliorini - University of Pisa, Italy Carlo Vallati - University of Pisa, Italy * Workshop Chairs Jussi Kangasharju - University of Helsinki, Finland Guillaume Urvoy-Keller - Institute Eurecom, France * Publicity Chairs Anne Bouillard - ENS Cachan Bretagne, France Greg Franks - Carleton University, Canada * Web Chair: Matteo Andreozzi - University of Pisa, Italy * Conference Coordinator: Maria Morozova - ICST, Hungary Technical Program Committee ----------------------------- Panos Argyrakis, University of Thessaloniki, Greece Konstantin Avrachenkov, INRIA, France Ivo Adan, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Urtzi Ayesta, LAAS-CNRS and BCAM, France Francois Baccelli, ENS, INRIA, France Nick Bambos, Stanford University, USA Marian Boguna, University of Barcelona, Spain Vivek Borkar, Tata Institute Mumbai, India Maria-Carla Calzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy Laurent Decreusefond, Telecom Paris, France Andreas Deutsch, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Paolo De Los Rios, EPFL, Switzerland Olivier Dousse, Nokia, Switzerland Rachid El Azouzi, University of Avignon, France Santo Fortunato, ISI, Torino, Italy Bruno Gaujal, Inria, France Peter W. Glynn, Stanford University, USA Tania Jimenez, University of Avignon, France Matthieu Jonckheere, T.-U. Eindhoven, Netherlands Marco Gribaudo, University of Turin, Italy Moshe Haviv, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Giuseppe Iazeolla, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy Jussi Kangasharju, University of Helsinki, Finland Iordanis Koutsopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece Matthieu Latapy, University Paris 6, France Anna T. Lawniczak, University of Guelph, Canada D. Manjunath, IIT Bombay, India Evsey Morozov, Institute of Applied Mathematical Research, Karelia Alexandre Proutiere, Microsoft Research, UK Bozidar Radunovic, Microsoft Research, UK Matteo Sereno, Univ. degli Studi di Torino, Italy Nahum Shimkin, Technion, Israel George Stamoulis, AUEB, Greece Nicolas Stier-Moses, Columbia University, USA Guillaume Urvoy-Keller, Institut Eurecom, France Enrico Vicario, University of Florence, Italy Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada Bert Zwart, CWI, the Netherlands