Call for Papers
9th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems
QEST 2012
http://www.qest.org/qest2012/
Imperial College London, Department of Computing
17th-20th September, 2012, London, United Kingdom
DEADLINES:
Abstract submission by 27 February, 2012
Paper and tool submission by 5 March, 2012
Author notification by 6 May, 2012
Selected papers will appear in a special issue of Elsevier Performance
Evaluation journal.
SCOPE AND TOPICS
QEST is the leading forum on evaluation and verification of computer systems
and networks, through stochastic models and measurements. QEST has a broad
range of interest - the common thread is that the evaluation be quantitative.
The range of performance metrics of interest spans classical measures involving
performance and reliability, as well as quantification of properties that are
classically qualitative, such as safety, correctness, and security.
QEST welcomes measurement-based studies as well as analytic studies.
QEST welcomes diversity in the model formalisms and methodologies employed, as
well as development of new formalisms and methodologies.
QEST is keenly interested in case studies highlighting the role of quantitative
evaluation in the design of systems, where the notion of system is broad.
Systems of interest include computer hardware and software architectures,
communication systems, embedded systems and biological systems. Moreover, tools
for supporting the practical application of research results in all of the
above areas are of special interest, and therefore tool papers are sought. In
short, QEST aims to create a sound methodological basis for assessing and
designing systems using quantitative means.
EVALUATION OF PAPERS
All submitted papers will be thoroughly judged 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. QEST considers five types of papers with additional reviewing
criteria (in no particular
order):
* 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.
Process structure and the individual steps should be clearly described. If the
methodology has already been evaluated with applications, a brief description
of the lessons learned would be very helpful.
* Application: describes a novel application, and compares with previous
results (if any).
* Tools: should motivate the development of the new tools and the formalisms
they support. Tool papers need neither discuss their theoretical underpinnings
nor their algorithms. Instead, they should focus on the software architecture
and discuss its practical capabilities with particular reference to the size
and type of model it can handle within reasonable time and space limits.
* Tool demonstration: describe a relevant tool, as well as its features,
evaluation, or any other information that may demonstrate the merits of the
tool.
SUBMISSIONS
We invite submissions of original papers related to the aforementioned topics.
Submissions must be in English, IEEE double-column format, and must indicate
the above paper type. Submission instructions can be found at www.qest.org.
Submitted papers should not exceed 10 pages (2 pages for tool demonstrations).
Additional material for the aid of the reviewers (e.g., proofs) can be sent in
a clearly marked appendix.
Papers must be unpublished and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. PC
members, except program co-chairs, may submit papers.
All accepted papers (including tool demonstrations) will appear in the
Conference Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference
Publishing Services (CPS), and must be presented at the conference by one of
the authors. A best-paper award will be presented at the conference.
TUTORIALS
There will be one day of tutorials at the start of the conference.
Tutorial proposals (up to 4 pages IEEE double-column format) should be sent to
the Tutorial Chair by the same deadline of papers and tools.
TOOL PRESENTATIONS
Tool presentation sessions will be arranged to present and demonstrate tools
relevant to conference topics. Accepted tool descriptions will appear in the
conference proceedings.
GENERAL CHAIR:
William J. Knottenbelt, Imperial College London, UK
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK Lucy Cherkasova, HP Labs, US
Holger Hermanns, Saarland University, DE
LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR:
Anton Stefanek, Imperial College London, UK
PUBLICITY CHAIR:
Nigel Thomas, Newcastle University, UK
PROCEEDINGS CHAIR:
Jeremy Bradley, Imperial College London, UK
TOOL CHAIR:
Ken Keefe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
TUTORIAL CHAIR:
Gabor Horvath, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU
STEERING COMMITTEE:
Gianfranco Ciardo, UC Riverside, USA
Pedro D'Argenio, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, AG Susanna Donatelli,
Universita di Torino, IT Boudewijn Haverkort, University of Twente and ESI, NL
Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh, UK Joost-Pieter Katoen, RWTH Aachen
University, DE Andrew Miner, Iowa State University, USA Gerardo Rubino, INRIA
Rennes / IRISA, FR William Sanders, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
USA Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, USA Miklos Telek, Budapest
University of Technology and Economics, HU
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Erika Abraham RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Jonatha Anselmi BCAM, Spain
Christel Baier Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany
Gianfranco Balbo Universita di Torino, Italy
Novella Bartolini Universita di Roma - La Sapienza, Italy
Nathalie Bertrand INRIA Rennes Bretagne Atlantique, France
Tomas Brazdil Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Peter Buchholz Technische Universitat Dortmund, Germany
Gianfranco Ciardo University of California Riverside, USA
Pedro R. D'Argenio Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina
Stephen Dawson SAP Research, Belfast, UK
Rocco De Nicola IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca and Universita
di Firenze, Italy
Derek Eager University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Tony Field Imperial College London, UK
Goran Frehse Verimag, France
Leana Golubcik University of Southern California, USA
Boudewijn Haverkort University of Twente and Embedded Systems Institute
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Kaustubh Joshi AT&T Research, USA
Krishna Kant George Mason University and NSF, USA
Joost-Pieter Katoen RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Peter Kemper College of William and Mary, USA
Marta Kwiatkowska University of Oxford, UK
Marin Litoiu York University, Canada
Arif Merchant Google, USA
Bo Friis Nielsen Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Catuscia Palamidessi INRIA Saclay and Ecole Polytechnique, France
Alma Riska EMC, USA
Jerry Rolia HP Labs Palo Alto, USA
William H. Sanders University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Markus Siegle Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen, Germany
Evgenia Smirni College of William and Mary, USA
Geoffrey Smith Florida International University, USA
Marielle Stoelinga University of Twente, The Netherlands
Miklos Telek Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
Mirco Tribastone Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany
Enrico Vicario Universita di Firenze, Italy
Carey Williamson University of Calgary, Canada
Verena Wolf Saarland University, Germany
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