Program Committee
Honorary Chair
Mohammad S. Obaidat
Monmouth Univ., NJ, USA
General Chair
Mario Marchese
Univ. of Genoa, Italy
Senior Technical Program Chair
Igor Bisio
Univ. of Genoa, Italy
Technical Program Chairs
Malmati Louta
Univ. of West Macedonia, Greece
Floriano De Rango
Univ. of Calabria, Italy
Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair
Sanjay K. Dhurandher
Univ. of Delhi, India
Publicity Chairs
Essia Hamouda
Univ. of California, Riverside, USA
Lei Shu
Osaka Univ., Japan
Publication Chair
Jose Saldana
Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain
Webmaster
Antonio Bueno
Univ. of Girona, Spain
2014 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
July 6-10, 2014, Monterey, CA, USA The Hyatt Regency Monterey
SPECTS 2014 is over! See you at SPECTS 2015!
This annual international conference is a scientific forum for professionals and scientists 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 Sponsor www.comsoc.org
Topics of interest
Papers and Demos are solicited in (but not limited to) the following topics:
Networking and Telecommunication Systems
- Internet, Next Generation Networking Technologies and Services
- Next Generation Networking (Architectures, Technologies, Services, Protocols)
- Future Internet
- Internet of Things and enabling technologies
- Network virtualization and services
- Switching and routing
- Network security, survivability and resilience
- Traffic engineering, network reliability, Quality of Service (QoS), Quality of Experience (QoE)
- Optical networks and systems
- Optical – wireless networks
- Green communications and networking
- Service-centric, content-centric, peer-to-peer and overlay networks and applications
- Service convergence and multimedia networks
- Internet applications and services
- Service Oriented Architectures and Web Services
- E-commerce, M-commerce
- Smart Grid
- Smart Cities
- E-Health applications
- Location / Context-aware services
- Pervasive/wearable computing
- Pricing & Billing
- Wireless Communications and Networking
- Modulation and coding
- MIMO
- Smart antennas
- Multiple access techniques
- Cognitive radio and networking
- Cooperative communications and networking
- Cellular systems and wireless networks (2G, 2.5G, 3G, 4G and beyond)
- Wireless LAN, Wireless PAN, Body Area Networks
- Wireless ad hoc and mesh networks
- Wireless sensor networks
- Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networking /Opportunistic Networking
- Satellite and Space Communications and Networking
- Heterogeneous Networks / Hybrid communication systems
- Network design, optimization and management
- Cross layer design and optimization
- Energy Efficient Protocols
Computer Systems
- Distributed Architecture & Middleware
- Client/Server
- Distributed Systems and Multi Agent Systems
- Parallel and Distributed Computing
- Massively Parallel Systems
- Grid, Cluster and Cloud Computing
- High-Performance Computing
- Green Computing
- Distributed and Mobile Middleware
- Computer Architectures
- Microprocessors/Microcomputers
- Memory Systems
- High Performance I/O
- Real-time Systems/Scheduling Schemes
- Software
- Software Engineering
- Software Performance, Evaluation, and Testing
- Formal Methods
- Verification and Validation
- Parallel Algorithms and Languages
- Security and Information Assurance
- Security protocols and techniques
- Anonymity and Privacy
- Access Control
- Identity Management
- Digital Rights Management
- Intrusion Detection and Honeypot solutions
- Trust Management
- Formal Methods for Security
- Cryptography
- Data Storage
- Technologies for hard disk drives and optical drives
- Data storage systems
- Data compression for digital storage, including audio and video
- Fault tolerance and coding techniques for disk arrays and data centers
- Signal processing and coding methods for object based storage systems
- Measurement, testing, performance optimization, and cost-performance trade-off
- Emerging recording technologies
- NAND, PRAM
- MRAM, STT-MRAM, RRAM and memristor based memories
Tools & Methodologies
- Modeling and Analysis
- Parallel and Distributed Simulation
- Verification and Validation
- Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models
- Queuing Systems and Networks
- Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications
- 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, Testbed deployments, field trials and experiences
Call for Papers
You can download the PDF version of the Call for Papers (91 KiB)
Deadlines
Important Dates for Papers
- Proposals for Special Sessions:
March 1, 2014Extended until April 2nd, 2014 - Full Paper Submissions:
April 1, 2014Extended until April 2nd, 2014 - Notification to Authors: May 15, 2014
- Author registration and Camera-ready Paper Submission: June 10, 2014
Important Dates for Demos
- Demo abstract submission (1 page): May 15, 2014
- Notification to Authors: May 30, 2014
Paper Submission
Please submit your complete papers electronically to http://www.softconf.com/scs/SPECTS14/.
Instructions for authors
Current templates supplied by IEEE must be used. Submissions should not exceed 8 two-column, 8.5×11" pages (including figures, tables, and references) in 10 point fonts. Please include 5-10 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. If you have difficulties with electronic submission, please contact Technical Program Co-Chairs or the Local Arrangement Chair.
Proposals for 1.5 hour tutorials should be sent to the Tutorials Chair. Tutorial abstracts along with keynote speeches' abstracts will be included in the proceedings of the conference.
Authors of accepted papers
To upload your final manuscript and the copyright form, please visit the following site: http://www.softconf.com/scs/SPECTS14/ and, on the left-hand side of the page, enter the passcode associated with your submission (it was in the acceptance e-mail).
The final manuscript should not exceed 8 two-column, 8.5×11" (US Letter) pages (including figures, tables, and references) in 10 point fonts. They must also not include headers or footers, including any kind of pagination. Papers must be validated and signed via PDF eXpress before being uploaded (https://www.pdf-express.org/)
The Copyright form to be signed and uploaded is here: http://www.scs.org/upload/documents/Copyright_Form.pdf
For uploading both the camera-ready paper and the Copyright form, please visit: http://www.softconf.com/scs/SPECTS14/. Remember that the submission deadline is June 10th, 2014.
For registering at the conference visit http://www.scs.org/summersim.
Best Paper Awards
These awards, one for each track, is open to all accepted papers. Papers will be evaluated based on originality, technical contribution, and presentation quality during the workshop.
SPECTS Steering Committee
- Franco Davoli, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
- Pascal Lorenz, Univ. of Haute Alsace, France
- Mohammad S Obaidat, Monmouth Univ., NJ, USA (Chair)
- James J. Park, Seoul National Univ. of Science and Technology, Korea
- Jose L. Sevillano, Univ. of Seville, Spain
- Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada
Technical Program Committee
- Giuseppe Araniti, Univ. "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria, Italy
- Julio Barbancho Concejero, Univ. de Sevilla, Spain
- Ozgur Baris Akan, Koc Univ., Turkey
- Paolo Bellavista, Univ. of Bologna, Italy
- Jalil Boukhobza, Univ. of Western Brittany, France
- Scott Burleigh, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
- Christian Callegari, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
- Berk Canberk, Istanbul Technical Univ., Turkey
- Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Tomaso De Cola, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
- Mauro De Sanctis, Univ. of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
- Stefano Delucchi, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
- Alban Duverdier, Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France
- Marc Emmelmann, Technical Univ. of Berlin, Germany
- Daniel F. Garcia, Univ. of Oviedo, Spain
- Giovanni Giambene, Univ. of Siena, Italy
- Fabrizio Granelli, Univ. of Trento, Italy
- Carlos Guerrero, Univ. de les Illes Balears, Spain
- Gurkan Gur, Provus , Turkey
- Sami Habib, Kuwait Univ., Kuwait
- Jarmo Harju, Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland
- Carlos Juiz, Univ. de les Illes Balears, Spain
- Helen Karatza, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Nei Kato, Tohoku Univ., Japan
- Zbigniew Kotulski, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland
- Polychronis Koutsakis, Technical Univ. of Crete, Greece
- Thomas Lagkas, City College, The Univ. of Sheffield, Greece
- An Li, Virginia Tech, USA
- Pascal Lorenz, Univ. of Haute Alsace, France
- Kami Makki, Lamar Univ., USA
- Alvaro Marco, Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain
- Petros Nicopolitidis, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Ibrahim Onyuksel, Northern Illinois Univ., USA
- Antonino Orsino, Univ. "Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy
- Elena Pagani, Univ. di Milano, Italy
- Georgios Papadimitriou, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Francesco Potortì, ISTI-CNR, Italy
- Enrique Rodriguez-Colina, Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico
- Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, Univ. of Western Macedonia, Greece
- Andrea Sciarrone, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
- Jose Luis Sevillano Ramos, Univ. of Sevilla, Spain
- Maria Angeles Vazquez-Castro, Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain
- Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Univ. of Malaga, Spain
- Gabriel Wainer, Carleton Univ., Canada
- Bernd E. Wolfinger, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany
- Takaya Yamazato, Nagoya Univ., Japan