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.

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 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, 2008~~ May 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

SPECTS 2008

Program Committee