[hpc-announce] [Bench'21 Call for Papers] Submission Deadline Extended to August 6th

[Chen Liu]

CALL FOR PAPERS

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 2021 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring
and Optimizing
(Bench'21)
http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench21/index.html

 Abstracts deadline: August 6, 2021 (extended deadline)
 Full papers deadline: August 6, 2021 (extended deadline)
 Conference date: Nov. 14th - Nov. 16th, 2021 (Virtual)

 Submission site: https://bench2021.hotcrp.com/

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Introduction
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Sponsored and organized by the International Open Benchmark Council
(BenchCouncil), the Bench conference encompasses a wide range of
topics in benchmarking, measurement, evaluation methods and tools.
Bench’s multi-disciplinary emphasis provides an ideal environment for
developers and researchers from the architecture, system, algorithm,
and application communities to discuss practical and theoretical work
covering workload characterization, benchmarks and tools, evaluation,
measurement and optimization, and dataset generation.

Bench’21 conference invites manuscripts describing original work in
the area of benchmarking, evaluation methods and tools in Big Data,
Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing and Computing
Architectures (Call for Papers) . All accepted papers will be
presented at the Bench’21 conference and will be published in a
special issue of the BenchCouncil Transactions on Benchmarks,
Standards and Evaluation (TBench).

Sponsored by BenchCouncil, Bench’21 conference will present numerous
awards, including the BenchCouncil Achievement Award ($3000), the
BenchCouncil Rising Star Award ($1000), the BenchCouncil Distinguished
Doctoral Dissertation Award ($1000)，and the BenchCouncil Best Paper
Award ($1000). To encourage reliable and reproducible research using
the benchmarks from all organizations, the Bench conference presents
the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research to the
papers using publicly available benchmarks. Each article receives a
$100 prize, for up to 12 articles.


Call for papers
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We solicit papers describing original and previously unpublished
research. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
the following.
**Benchmark and standard specifications, implementations, and validations:
 -Big Data, Artificial intelligence (AI), High performance computing
(HPC), Machine learning, Warehouse-scale computing, Mobile robotics,
Edge and fog computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain, Data
management and storage, Financial, Education, Medical or other
application domains.

**Dataset Generation and Analysis:
 -Research or industry data sets, including the methods used to
collect the data and technical analyses supporting the quality of the
measurements; Analyses or meta-analyses of existing data and original
articles on systems, technologies and techniques that advance data
sharing and reuse to support reproducible research; Evaluations of the
rigor and quality of the experiments used to generate data and the
completeness of the descriptions of the data; Tools generating
large-scale data.

**Workload characterization, quantitative measurement, design and
evaluation studies:
 -Characterization and evaluation of Computer and communication
networks, protocols and algorithms; Wireless, mobile, ad-hoc and
sensor networks, IoT applications; Computer architectures, hardware
accelerators, multi-core processors, memory systems and storage
networks; HPC systems; Operating systems, file systems and databases;
Virtualization, data centers, distributed and cloud computing, fog and
edge computing; Mobile and personal computing systems;
Energy-efficient computing systems; Real-time and fault-tolerant
systems; Security and privacy of computing and networked systems;
Software systems and services, and enterprise applications; Social
networks, multimedia systems, web services; Cyber-physical systems.

**Methodologies, abstractions, metrics, algorithms and tools:
 -Analytical modeling techniques and model validation; Workload
characterization and benchmarking; Performance, scalability, power and
reliability analysis; Sustainability analysis and power management;
System measurement, performance monitoring and forecasting; Anomaly
detection, problem diagnosis and troubleshooting; Capacity planning,
resource allocation, run time management and scheduling; Experimental
design, statistical analysis and simulation.

Measurement and evaluation:
 -Evaluation methodologies and metrics; Testbed methodologies and
systems; Instrumentation, sampling, tracing and profiling of
large-scale, real-world applications and systems; Collection and
analysis of measurement data that yield new insights;
Measurement-based modeling (e.g., workloads, scaling behavior,
assessment of performance bottlenecks); Methods and tools to monitor
and visualize measurement and evaluation data; Systems and algorithms
that build on measurement-based findings; Advances in data collection,
analysis and storage (e.g., anonymization, querying, sharing);
Reappraisal of previous empirical measurements and measurement-based
conclusions; Descriptions of challenges and future directions that the
measurement and evaluation community should pursue.

Paper Submission
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The reviewing process is double-blind. Upon acceptance, papers will be
scheduled for publication in the BenchCouncil Transactions on
Benchmarks, Standards, and Evaluation (TBench) and presentation at the
Bench'21 conference. All accepted and eligible papers will be
considered, by a panel of reviewers, for the BenchCouncil Best Paper
Award and the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible
Research.

Papers must be submitted in PDF. For a full paper, the page limit is
12 double column pages in TBench format (All research article page
limits do not include references and author biographies). For a short
paper, the page limit is 8 double column pages in TBench format, not
including references and author biographies. The submissions will be
judged based on the merit of the ideas rather than the length. We only
wish to publish papers of significant scientific content. Very short
papers (of fewer than 4 pages) may be moved to the back matter. Such
papers will neither be available for indexing nor visible as
individual papers on SpringerLink. They will, however, be listed in
the Table of Contents.

Submission site:
https://bench2021.hotcrp.com/
TBench Latex template:
http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/els-cas-templates.zip


Awards
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* BenchCouncil Achievement Award ($3,000)
- This award recognizes a senior member who has made long-term
contributions to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. The winner
is eligible for the status of a BenchCouncil Fellow.

* BenchCouncil Rising Star Award ($1,000)
- This award recognizes a junior member who demonstrates outstanding
potential for research and practice in benchmarking, measuring, and
optimizing.

* BenchCouncil Best Paper Award ($1,000)
- This award recognizes a paper presented at the Bench conferences,
which demonstrates potential impact on research and practice in
benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing.

* BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research (Each
winning paper earns a $100 prize, maximally up to 12 papers).
- BenchCouncil incubates and hosts benchmark projects, and further
encourages reliable and reproducible research using the benchmarks
from BenchCouncil or other organizations. To this end, we present the
BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research to the
papers using all publicly available benchmarks.


Organization
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General Chairs
Resit Sendag, University of Rhode Island, USA
Arne J. Berre, SINTEF Digital, Norway

Program Chairs
Lei Wang, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Axel Ngonga, Paderborn University, Germany
Chen Liu, Clarkson University, USA

Special Session Chair
Xiaoyi Lu, The University of California, Merced, USA

Publications Chair
Chunjie Luo, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Registration Chair
Fanda Fan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Technical Support Chair
Ke Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Publicity Chairs
Chen Zheng, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Zhen Jia, Amazon, USA
Biwei Xie, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Pengfei Chen, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Roberto V. Zicari, Z-Inspection® Initiative， Yrkeshögskolan Arcada,
Helsinki， Seoul National University, South Korea

Web Chair
Guoxin Kang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Bench Steering Committees
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University
D. K. Panda, The Ohio State University
Felix, Wolf, TU Darmstadt
Xiaoyi Lu, University of California, Merced
Wanling Gao, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences & UCAS
Jianfeng Zhan, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences &BenchCouncil