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******** INTER-PERF *********
**** Call for Papers ****
*** http://www.inter-perf.org ***
Workshop on Interdisciplinary Systems
Approach in Performance Evaluation and Design
of Computer & Communication Systems
Pisa, Italy / October 14, 2006
Co-located with VALUETOOLS 2006
http://www.valuetools.org/
First International Conference on
Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools
In technical cooperation with:
Create-Net/ICST
IEEE Computer Society
Corporate Sponsor
Microsoft Research
**** Submission Deadline -- April 10, 2006 ****
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The area of communication networks has become increasingly diverse over the
past decade, driven by an increasingly wide range of application scenarios
including ad-hoc networks, mobile networks, sensor networks, and peer to
peer networks. Issues of particular interest relate to networks that are
large scale in terms computing elements and users, or closely coupled to
the spatial environment of their deployment.
At an appropriate level of abstraction, the operational principles of such
systems may exhibit great similarity with systems found in other sciences,
and this naturally suggests using models and techniques that are standard
in other scienctific areas such as biological systems, economics,
epidemiology, physics and the social sciences.
Inter-Perf aims to bring together researchers and practioners from the many
scientific disciplines where such issues of scalability, self-organization
and robustness arise. In particular, it seeks contributions which derive
insights and techniques from these areas that can be used either to
evaluate the performance of existing communication systems or to inspire
the design of new ones.
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** Keynote speakers: **
** Laurent Massoulie, Microsoft Research, UK **
** Karl Sigmund, University of Vienna, Austria **
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** The proceedings will be published by IEEE and **
** accepted papers will be available online via IEEE Xplore **
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Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Bayesian belief propagation
- Bio-inspired systems
- Chemical-reaction type models
- Electromagnetism-inspired models
- Artificial immune systems
- Interacting particle systems
- Mathematics of epidemiology and infectious diseases
- Microeconomics of networks
- Percolation
- Population dynamics
- Random graphs
- Reaction-diffusion models
- Reinforced random walks in networks
- Replicator dynamics, Lotka-Volterra systems
- Self-organization
- Statistical physics models
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: April 10, 2006
Notification of Acceptance: June 10, 2006
Camera-ready Manuscripts due: July 10, 2006
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PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 12 pages in IEEE
conference proceedings format through COCUS (http://cocus.info).
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WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
Sean Collins, University of Bristol, UK - [log in to unmask]
Milan Vojnovic, Microsoft Research, UK - [log in to unmask]
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TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Sem Borst (Bell Labs, USA & CWI, Netherlands)
Mark Burgess (Oslo College, Norway)
Hana El-Samad (UCSF, USA)
Ayalvadi Ganesh (Microsoft Research, UK)
Ramesh Johari (Stanford University, USA)
George Kesidis (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Jean-Yves Le Boudec (EPFL, Switzerland)
Armand M. Makowski (University of Maryland, USA)
Peter Marbach (University of Toronto, CA)
Jose Fernando Mendes (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
David Nicol (University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, USA)
Devavrat Shah (MIT, USA)
Anil Somayaji (Carleton University, CA)
Leandros Tassiulas (University of Thessaly, Greece)
Patrick Thiran (EPFL, Switzerland)
Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)
Gustavo de Veciana (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
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