Dear colleague,

My sincere apologies for cross-postings. I would like to draw your attention to the deadline for advance registration at the Performance 2005 conference, it is *tomorrow* on September 3. I have copied the complete announcement at the end of the message for your convenience.

Best regards,

Sara Alouf Publicity chair of Performance 2005

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The 24th IFIP WG7.3 International Symposium on Computer Performance Modeling, Measurement and Evaluation

Juan-les-Pins, France October 3-7, 2005 http://www-sop.inria.fr/maestro/performance2005/

GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- The 24th IFIP WG7.3 International Symposium on Computer Performance Modeling, Measurement and Evaluation (PERFORMANCE 2005) will be held in Juan-les-Pins, France on October 5-7, 2005 (3 full days). The tutorials will be held on October 3 and 4, 2005.

The PERFORMANCE 2005 conference will include - 2 keynote lectures, - full papers sessions, - a posters session, - and a work-in-progress session

The full papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal Performance Evaluation (Elsevier) available at the conference. The posters will be published as extended abstracts in a special issue of the Performance Evaluation Review in September 2006. Work-in-progress presentations will last 5 to 10 minutes. The Technical Program has been published (http://www-sop.inria.fr/maestro/performance2005/program.html), including the list of accepted posters.

The conference registration form can be found on the conference website. On-site registration is also possible provided the fees are given by cash or in check in euros.

KEYNOTE LECTURES ---------------- J.-P. Hubaux (EPFL) "Performance Challenges in Secure Vehicular Networks"

P.R. Kumar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Title to be announced

REGULAR SESSIONS ---------------- - Peer-to-Peer networks - CDMA networks - Queueing analysis (I) - Statistical analysis of Internet traffic - Routing in ad hoc and overlay networks - Bandwidth sharing - Queueing analysis (II) - Performance guarantees - Load balancing and content distribution

MAIN TOPICS ----------- * Performance-oriented design and evaluation of: communication networks, mobile and wireless systems, Internet servers and E-commerce systems, Web services, Web architectures, peer-to-peer systems, grid computing, computer architectures, database systems, operating systems, software systems, distributed systems, multimedia systems, file and I/O systems, memory systems, real-time systems, and fault-tolerant systems. * Techniques and algorithms: analytic modeling, performance optimization, queueing analysis, stochastic scheduling, model verification and validation, power analysis, hybrid models, experimental design, system or network measurement and monitoring, workload characterization, simulation, and statistical analysis.

IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Advance registration: September 3, 2005 Tutorials: October 3-4, 2005 Conference: October 5-7, 2005

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FEES ---------------------------- Students Before 03/09/05 250 euros (incl. tax) After 03/09/05 300 euros (incl. tax)

Academics Before 03/09/05 400 euros (incl. tax) After 03/09/05 500 euros (incl. tax)

Industrials Before 03/09/05 600 euros (incl. tax) After 03/09/05 700 euros (incl. tax)

TUTORIALS REGISTRATION FEES --------------------------- Students Before 03/09/05 150 euros (incl. tax) After 03/09/05 200 euros (incl. tax)

Academics Before 03/09/05 250 euros (incl. tax) After 03/09/05 300 euros (incl. tax)

Industrials Before 03/09/05 300 euros (incl. tax) After 03/09/05 350 euros (incl. tax)

VENUE ----- Conference hotel: Rooms have been reserved at a negotiated rate at Hotel Ambassador 50-52, chemin des Sables B.P. 49 - 06160 Juan-Les-Pins Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)4 92 93 74 10 - Fax: +33 (0)4 93 67 79 85 e-mail: manager@hotel-ambassadeur.com URL: http://www.hotel-ambassadeur.com/ A list of nearby hotels has been posted on the conference website. Indications on how to reach the conference hotel are available on the conference website.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- General Chair: Philippe Nain (INRIA, France)

Program Committee Co-Chairs: Cheng-Shang Chang (National Tsing Hua U., Taiwan) Daniel A. Menascé (George Mason U., USA)

Tutorial Co-Chairs: Eitan Altman (INRIA, France) Zhen Liu (IBM T. J. Watson Reseach Center, USA)

Proceedings Chair: Rudesindo Nunez Queija (CWI & U. Eindhoven, Netherlands)

Posters Chair: Thomas Bonald (France Telecom R&D, France)

Local Arrangements Co-Chairs: Ephie Deriche (INRIA, France) Dany Sergeant (INRIA, France)

Finance Chair: Dany Sergeant (INRIA, France)

Publicity Chair and webmaster: Sara Alouf (INRIA, France)

Work-in-Progress Session Chair: Konstantin Avrachenkov (INRIA, France)

SPONSORS -------- Corporate Sponsors: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center France Telecom R&D Texas Instruments

Institutional Sponsors: IFIP WG7.3 Computer Performance Foundation INRIA Conseil Régional de la Région Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur Conseil Général des Alpes-Maritimes