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Call for Papers for: QEST 2020
17th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems
http://www.qest.org/qest2020/
QEST 2020 will be held in Vienna, Austria
August 31 - September 3, 2020
Co-located with CONCUR, FORMATS, and FMICS, QEST will be part of
QONFEST 2020
http://qonfest2020.conf.tuwien.ac.at/
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Important Dates
Abstract submission: March 27
Paper submission: April 3
Poster submission: May 15
Author notification: May 30
Final version due: June 23
Tutorials: August 31
Conference: September 1-3
All deadlines are in 2020, Anywhere on Earth
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Scope and Topics
The International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems
(QEST) is the leading forum on quantitative evaluation and verification
of computer systems and networks. Areas of interest include
quantitative specification methods, stochastic and non-deterministic
models and metrics for performance, reliability, safety, correctness,
and security. QEST is interested in both theoretical and experimental
research. QEST welcomes a diversity of modelling formalisms,
programming languages and methodologies that incorporate quantitative
aspects such as probabilities, temporal properties and other forms of
non-determinism. This includes work on the combination of quantitative
evaluation and verification with machine learning techniques. Papers
may advance empirical, simulation and analytic methods. Of particular
interest are case studies that highlight the role of quantitative
specification, modelling and evaluation in the design of systems.
Systems of interest include computer hardware and software
architectures, communication systems, cyber-physical systems,
infrastructural systems, security systems and biological systems.
Papers that describe novel tools to support the practical application
of research results in all of the above areas are also welcome.
QEST 2020 will organize a special session under the topic "Predictive
performance by machine learning." Submissions that address the
combination of machine learning and performance prediction are
particularly welcomed. Ph.D. students whose work is not yet finished
are encouraged to register for the Ongoing Work session. This session
offers opportunity to discuss, not to publish formally.
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Submissions
QEST 2020 considers six types of papers:
- THEORETICAL: advance our understanding, apply to non-trivial
problems and be mathematically rigorous.
- METHODOLOGICAL AND TECHNICAL: describe situations that require the
development and proposal of new analysis processes and techniques.
- APPLICATION: describes a novel application, and compares with
previous results.
- TOOLS: should motivate the development of the new tools and the
formalisms they support, with a focus on the software architecture and
practical capabilities.
- TOOL DEMONSTRATION: describe a relevant tool, as well as its
features, evaluation, or any other information that may demonstrate the
merits of the tool.
- POSTERS: provide a short abstract of work that you want to present
in an elevator pitch.
All accepted papers must be presented at the conference by one of the
authors. The QEST 2020 proceedings will be published in the Springer
LNCS series and indexed by ISI Web of Science, Scopus, ACM Digital
Library, dblp, Google Scholar. All submitted papers will be evaluated
by at least three reviewers on the basis of their originality,
technical quality, scientific or practical contribution to the state of
the art, methodology, clarity, and adequacy of references.
Authors should consult Springer's authors' guidelines [0] and use
Springer's LaTeX templates [1] for the preparation of their papers.
Submitted full papers must not exceed 16 pages excluding references.
Short papers (i.e. tool demonstrations and extended poster abstracts)
must not exceed 4 pages, also excluding references. Papers must be
unpublished and not be submitted for publication elsewhere.
Papers should be submitted electronically using EasyChair [2]. Springer
encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers.
Authors of tool papers (both regular and demonstration) must make their
tools and input data available to reviewers; reproducibility of results
will be taken into account during the evaluation process, and the
conference will include a demo session. Authors should present use
cases, distinctive features, and computational/memory requirements
through motivating examples. Theoretical background need not be
presented in tool demonstration papers. If accepted after peer-review,
the authors may choose to have the extended poster abstract (4 pages
long) included in the proceedings. Tools full papers (16 pages long)
must describe substantial improvements if they present new versions of
existing tools.
We expect authors of tool papers (regular and short) to provide
instructions detailing the steps which need to be taken to reproduce
the results presented in the tool papers to ensure reproducibility.
(Further details are provided on the website.)
Full papers will participate in the competence for the best paper
award, elected by the programme committee. A best poster award will be
elected by the QEST 2020 participants among the posters presented in
the venue. Accepted tool demonstrations are invited to join the poster
competition. We thank Springer for support with these awards. A
selection of the best full papers will be invited to submit an extended
version of their paper to a special issue in the Performance Evaluation
journal [3].
[0]
ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/svproc/guidelines/Springer_Guidelines_for_Authors_of_Proceedings.pdf
[1] ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip
[2] https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=qest2020
[3] https://www.journals.elsevier.com/performance-evaluation/
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Contact & links
Submissions: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=qest2020
Call for Papers as PDF:
http://www.qest.org/qest2020/publicity/QEST_2020_CfP.pdf
Publicity chair: Carlos E. Budde (c dot e dot budde <at> utwente dot nl)
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