Program Committee
General Chair
Mohammad S. Obaidat
Monmouth Univ., NJ, USA
Program Chairs
Jose Marzo
Univ. of Girona, Spain
Helena Szczerbicka
Univ. of Hannover, Germany
Program Vice Chairs
Pawel Gburzynski
Univ. of Alberta, Canada
José Luis Sevillano
Univ. of Seville, Spain
Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair
S. Dharmaraja
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Awards Chair
Franco Davoli
Univ. of Genoa, Italy
Publicity Committee
Essia Elhafsi
Univ. of California-Riverside, USA (Chair)
Jong Hyuk Park
Kyungnam Univ., Korea
Farid Naït-Abdesselam
Univ. of Sciences & Technologies of Lille, France
Abdelmajid Khelil
Technical Univ. of Darmstadt, Germany
Local Arrangement Chair
Graham Shanks
Baesystems, UK
Webmasters
Antonio Bueno
Univ. of Girona, Spain
Michael J. Chinni
US Army TACOM-ARDEC
Publication Chair
Pere Vilà
Univ. of Girona, Spain
2008 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
June 16-18, 2008, Edinburgh, UK
SPECTS 2008 is over! See you at SPECTS 2009!
This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Performance evaluation of computer systems and networks has progressed rapidly in the past decade and has begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems.
Sponsors
Sponsor The Society for Modeling and Simulation International www.scs.org
Technical Co‑Sponsor IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society www.ieeesmc.org
Technical Co‑Sponsor IEEE Communications Society www.comsoc.org
Topics of interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Networking and Telecommunication Systems
- Internet Technology
- Quality of Service (QoS)
- DiffServ/IntServ
- MPLS/GMPLS
- TCP
- World Wide Web (WWW) Technology
- Networking Techniques
- Unicast and Multicast Routing
- Congestion and Admission Control
- Switching Techniques
- Tele-traffic
- Network Protocols
- Network Management and Control
- Network Capacity Planning
- Network Architecture Evaluation
- Service and QoS Pricing
- Security and Authentication
- Broadband Networks
- High-Speed Networking
- Optical Networks
- Wireless Systems and Networks
- Satellite Systems
- UMTS
- Mobile Networks/Computing
- Ad-hoc Networks
- Sensor Networks
- Multimedia Communications and Applications
Computer Systems
- Distributed Architecture
- Client/Server
- Distributed Systems and Agents
- Parallel and Distributed Computing
- Massively Parallel Systems
- Cluster Computing
- Grid Computing
- Interconnection Networks
- Computer Architectures
- Microprocessors/Microcomputers
- Memory Systems
- High Performance I/O
- Real-time Systems
- Scheduling Schemes
- Software
- Software Performance, Evaluation and Testing
- Parallel Algorithms and Languages
- Electronic Commerce
- Hardware and Software Monitors
- High-Performance Computing
- Information Assurance
- Reconfigurable Computing
- Scientific Computing Algorithms
- Workload and Traffic Characterization
Tools, Methodologies and Applications
- Parallel and Distributed Simulation
- Verification and Validation
- Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications
- Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models
- Queuing Systems and Networks
- Scalability Studies
- Integrated Modeling and Measurement
- On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning
- Process Algebra-Based Models
- Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance
- Case Studies
Special Sessions
1. Bio-inspired Wireless Networks
Chairs
- Martin Drozda, FG Simulation und Modellierung, Computer Science Dept., Leibniz Univ. of Hannover, Hannover, Germany
- Jonathan Timmis, Dept. of Computer Science and Dept. of Electronics, Univ. of York, Heslington, York, UK
Scope and topics
With the increasing complexity of wireless networks, the task of network management is becoming more and more difficult to handle. Wireless networks are becoming too complex for even the most skilled system integrators to install, configure, and maintain. [Read more]
Call for Papers
You can download a PDF version of the Call for Papers (154 KB)
Camera-Ready Submission
The SPECTS 2008 papers will be electronically published by IEEE Xplore. This means that accepted papers must exactly fulfil the IEEE requirements regarding the final submitted version. Papers that do not pass the IEEE PDF eXpress checklist will be excluded from the conference and the proceedings. The maximum length is 8 pages. Extra pages will be charged extra fees.
Authors must submit their papers as a PDF file ensuring that they perfectly match the IEEE requirements. In order to facilitate this process the SPECTS 2008 conference will provide authors of accepted papers with access to the IEEE PDF eXpress facility. By using this tool authors can easily generate an IEEE Xplore-compatible PDF version of their paper.
In order to properly submit the camera-ready version, authors must follow these three steps:
- Generate the source file of your paper: Please revise your source file taking into account the comments suggested by the reviewers. Be sure that the source file of your paper follows the IEEE specifications. The Author Digital Tool Box (including Word and LaTeX templates) is also available.
- Create the IEEE Xplore-compatible PDF version: Authors must create a new account to start with the process. Use the following conference ID: spects08x. Additional information about using IEEE Xplore eXpress is also available.
- Submit the camera-ready version: To upload your final manuscript, please go back to the submission site: http://www.softconf.com/scs/SPECTS08/ and, on the left-hand side of the page, enter the passcode associated with your submission (received by each author by e-mail).
An additional condition for the inclusion of a paper in the conference is the registration of at least one of the authors and the submission of the copyright form (submission by fax is preferred). Early registration deadline is 15 May 2008. Additional information on these extra conditions will be made available here soon.
Deadlines
- Special sessions proposals: December 7, 2007
- Submission of papers (and tutorials proposals): February 25, 2008
- Notification of Acceptance: April 21, 2008
- Final Camera-Ready Submission Due (extended):
May 5, 2008May 15, 2008
Technical Program Committee
- Abdullah Abonamah, Zayed Univ., UAE
- Tricha Anjali, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
- Noureddine Boudriga, Univ. of Tunis, Tunisia
- Rafael F. S. Caldeirinha, Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestao de Leiria, Portugal
- Maria C. Calzarossa, Univ. of Pavia, Italy
- Fernando Cerdan, Technical Univ. of Cartagena, Spain
- Tomaso de Cola, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
- Floriano De Rango, D.E.I.S. Dept., Univ. of Calabria, Italy
- S. Dharmaraja, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
- Rachid El Abdouni Khayari, Univ. of the Armed Forces Munich, Germany
- Matthew Faulkner, Lancaster Univ., UK
- Geoffrey Fox, Indiana Univ., USA
- John Fox, Foxband Consultancy, UK
- Sebastia Galmes, Univ. de les Illes Balears, Spain
- Daniel Garcia, Univ. of Oviedo, Spain
- Pawel Gburzynski, Univ. of Alberta, Canada
- Jarmo Harju, Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland
- Xavier Hesselbach-Serra, Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
- R. Jayaparvathy, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, India
- Carlos Juiz, Univ. de les Illes Balears, Spain
- Krishna Kant, Intel, USA
- Helen Karatza, Aristotle Univ. of Thessalonici, Greece
- Michalis E. Kounavis, Intel Research, USA
- Veronica Lagrange M. Reis, HP Corp., USA
- S. Kami Makki, Univ. of Toledo, USA
- Petteri Mannersalo, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
- Mario Marchese, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
- Pascale Minet, INRIA, France
- Ibrahim Onyuksel, Northern Illinois Univ., USA
- Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, Univ. of Glasgow, UK
- Elena Pagani, Univ. di Milano, Italy
- Georgios I. Papadimitriou, Aristotle Univ., Greece
- Krzysztof Pawlikowski, Univ. of Canterbury, New Zealand
- Stephen Pink, Lancaster Univ., UK
- Michal Pioro, Warsaw Univ. of Technology, Poland
- Desanka Polajnar, Univ. of Northern British Columbia, Canada
- Jernej Polajnar, Univ. of Northern British Columbia, Canada
- Ramon Puigjaner, Univ. de les Illes Balears, Spain
- Vicente Santonja, Technical Univ. of Valencia, Spain
- Barbara Sorensen, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
- Tatsuya Suda, Univ. of California, Irvine, USA
- Phuoc Tran-Gia, Univ. of Wuerzburg, Germany
- Pere Vila Talleda, Univ. of Girona, Spain
- Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica, Spain
- Bernd E. Wolfinger, Hamburg Univ., Germany