[hpc-announce] Call-for-Nominations: SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award 2020

[Weiyi(Ian) Shang]

The SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award aims to recognize
outstanding doctoral dissertations in the field of computer benchmarking,
performance evaluation, and experimental system analysis in general.
Nominated dissertations will be evaluated in terms of scientific
originality, scientific significance, practical relevance, impact, and
quality of the presentation.

The SPEC Research Group promotes research in quantitative system evaluation
and analysis both with classical performance metrics – such as response
time, throughput, scalability and efficiency, as well as other
extra-functional system properties included under the term dependability –
such as availability, reliability, and security. Contributions of interest
span the design of metrics for system evaluation as well as the development
of methodologies, techniques and tools for measurement, load testing,
profiling, workload characterization, dependability and efficiency
evaluation of computing systems.

The winner will receive $1000, which will be awarded at the ICPE 2021
International Conference on Performance Engineering <https://icpe.spec.org/>
.
Submission Guidelines

A nomination consists of *one* PDF file less than *20MB *that must include
the following information in this order:

   - A *nomination letter* with the name of the student, the title of the
   dissertation, the institution where the dissertation was defended, and the
   date of the defense. The nomination letter should outline the outstanding
   contributions of the dissertation and should not exceed 2 pages (letter
   size) using 11 point font.
   - A *C.V. of the nominee* (up to three pages) that clearly marks all
   publications/technical reports that are included in the dissertation.
   - The *dissertation* itself, including a one-page extended abstract of
   the dissertation. If the dissertation is written in language other than
   English, it may be accompanied by publications, in English, describing the
   same research as the dissertation.

SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award is open to
dissertations that have been defended between October 2019 and September
2020. If there are several outstanding submissions, the committee may split
the award between them.

The submission deadline is September 30, 2020. Nominations are welcome at
any time before the final submission deadline.

Nominations should be uploaded to EasyChair at URL:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spec2020award

The nomination can be provided by anyone except the thesis author.
Typically, it is the thesis advisor or a member of the thesis defense
committee, but other people – especially experts in performance evaluation
– can do so as well.
List of Topics

The SPEC Research Group promotes research in quantitative system evaluation
and analysis both with classical performance metrics – such as response
time, throughput, scalability and efficiency, as well as other
extra-functional system properties included under the term dependability –
such as availability, reliability, and security. Contributions of interest
span the design of metrics for system evaluation as well as the development
of methodologies, techniques and tools for measurement, load testing,
profiling, workload characterization, dependability and efficiency
evaluation of computing systems.
Selection committee

   - William Knottenbelt (Imperial College London, UK) (Chair)
   - Marta Beltran (Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain) [TBC]
   - Vittorio Cortellessa (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, Italy) [TBC]
   - Tony Field (Imperial College London, UK) [TBC]
   - Andrea Marin (Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy)
   - John Murphy (University College Dublin, Ireland) [TBC]
   - Andrew Rice (University of Cambridge, UK) [TBC]
   - Evgenia Smirni (College of William and Mary, VA, USA)
   - Connie Smith (Spe-ed+ Performance Engineering, TX, USA) [TBC]
   - Cary Williamson (University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
   - Katinka Wolter (Free University of Berlin, Germany)

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to *nominations at spec
dot org*