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                         SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

                             VALUETOOLS 2007
                         http://www.valuetools.org/

2nd. Int. Conf. on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools

                  Nantes, France, October 23-25, 2007
                      Workshops: October 22 and 26
                  
Sponsored by Create-net, ICST, INRIA, University of Rennes 1, France Telecom
          In technical cooperation with ACM SIGMETRICS and SIGSIM
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IMPORTANT DATES

Full papers due:       March 30, 2007
Author notification:  June 20, 2007
Final version due:    July 20, 2007
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SCOPE AND TOPICS

In recent years, a range of performance evaluation methodologies 
and tools has been developed within disparate research communities 
for the purposes of evaluation, design, and model reduction. The aim 
of the Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools conference is 
to build bridges between these communities, bringing theory and 
practice together in order to:

- compare and debate the complete range of performance evaluation 
  methodologies and their implementation into tools;
  
- promote interdisciplinary flow of technical information among 
  industry systems designers and researchers. 
  
The keynote talk will be given by Bruce Hajek, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Performance evaluation techniques will draw from the following:
- Network calculus
- Advanced simulation tools
   - Simulation of rare events
   - Parallel/distributed simulations
   - Variance reduction techniques
   - Large deviations
   - Hybrid system simulation
- Stochastic processes
   - Stochastic geometry
   - Long-range dependence
   - Self-similarity
   - Point processes
   - Traffic models and measurements
-Discrete event systems
   - Petri nets
   - Max-plus algebra
   - Supervisory control and optimization
-Queueing theory 
   - Analytical models
   - Approximation methods
   - (In)sensitivity
   - Dynamic fluid models
   - Diffusion models
   - Dam processes
   - Perturbation approaches
   - Control of queues

Envisaged applications are drawn from, but are not restricted to, 
the following areas:
- Networking
- Distributed Systems
- Computer Systems
- Manufacturing Systems
- Communication Systems
- Call Centers
- Reliability / Performability
- Road Traffic and Transportation Systems
- Optimization (including game theory and convex optimization)
- Graph Theory (including random graphs)
- Interdisciplinary Methodologies (economic, 
  biological and social models) in the above areas


WORKSHOPS

Valuetools 2007 features four co-located workshops:

- GameComm,  http://www.game-comm.org/
  Game theory in Communication networks 
  Workshop date: October 22, Submission deadline: May 5

- NSTools,  http://www.nstools.org/
  First International Workshop on Network Simulation Tools 
  Workshop date: October 22, Submission deadline: April 30

- Inter-Perf,  http://www.inter-perf.org/
  Workshop on interdisciplinary systems approach in performance
  evaluation and design of computer & communication systems 
  Workshop date: October 26, Submission deadline: April 30

- SMCtools,  http://www.smctools.org/
  International Workshop on Tools for solving Structured Markov Chains 
  Workshop date: October 26, Submission deadline: May 10


PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit original papers of up to 10 pages 
in ACM conference proceedings format through COCUS 
(http://cocus.create-net.it).

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Conference language is English. Prospective authors are encouraged 
to submit a PDF version of the full paper in ACM conference proceedings 
format, which are limited to 10 two-column pages in a font no smaller 
than 10-points. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. 
Please visit the submission page http://www.valuetools.org/submission.shtml 
for detailed submission requirements and procedures.

PUBLICATION

All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. All accepted 
papers will be included in the VALUETOOLS 2007 Conference Proceedings. 
All accepted papers will be made available in Association for Computing 
Machinery (ACM) Digital Library, as well as indexed by EI and ISI Index.

Selected papers will be published in a special issue of Performance 
Evaluation and others considered for fast track publication in 
Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (DEDS).


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General Chair: 
Peter Glynn (Stanford University, US)

Vice Chair:
Bruno Tuffin (IRISA- INRIA, France)

Keynote Speaker:
Bruce Hajek (UIUC, US)

Steering Committee Co-Chairs:
I. Chlamtac (CREATE-NET, Italy)
E. Altman (INRIA, France)

Steering Committee:
L. Lenzini (Univ. Pisa, Italy)
D. Miorandi (CREATE-NET, Italy)
S. Meyn (University of Illinois, US)

Technical Program Co-Chairs:
Christos Cassandras  (Boston Univ., US)
Alexandre Proutière (France Telecom R&D, France)
Kishor Trivedi (Duke University, US)

Workshops Chair:
T. Jimenez (Univ. Avignon.,France.)

Finance Chair: 
K. Decker (ICST, US)

Conference coordinator: 
Z. Rosza (ICST, US)

Sponsors Chair:
G. Rubino (IRISA-INRIA, France)

Publicity Chair:
A. Zimmermann (TU Berlin, Germany)

Publication Chair:
S. Alouf  (INRIA, France)

Local Organization Committee:
E. Lebret (IRISA-INRIA, France)
B. Tuffin (IRISA- INRIA, France)
L. Truffet (Ecole d. Mines de Nantes)

Technical Program Committee:
J. Aguilar (Univ. de Los Andes, Venez.)
M. Akian (INRIA, France)
S. Alouf (INRIA, France)
M. Baykal-Gursoy (Rutgers Univ., USA)
S. Balsamo (Univ. Ca' Foscari Venezia)
M. Calzarossa (University of Pavia, Italy)
X. Cao (Hong Kong U. Science Techn.)
Wai Ki Ching (Univ. of Hong Kong)
Y. Dallery (École Centrale Paris, France)
P. Dube (IBM, USA)
R. El Azouzi (Univ. of Avignon, France)
S. Foss (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
B. Fourestie (France Telecom, France)
B. Gaujal (INRIA, France)
W. Gong (Univ. of Massachusetts, USA)
H. Kameda (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
A. Alam Kherani (IIT Delhi, India)
D. Kofman (ENST, France)
I. Kontoyiannis (Brown University, USA)
A. Kumar (IISC Bangalore, India)
P. L'Ecuyer (Univ. of Montreal, Canada)
J. Mairesse (CNRS, France)
E. Mingozzi (University of Pisa, Italy)
J. Misic (Univ. of Manitoba, Canada)
S. Molnar (BUTE, Hungary)
E. Morozov (Petrozavodsk U., Russia)
P. Mosterman (Mathworks, USA)
E. Moulines (ENST, France)
H. Okamura (Hiroshima Univ., Japan)
Ch. Panayiotou (Univ. of Cyprus)
I. Papamichail (Techn. Univ. Crete)
V. Ramaswami (AT&T, USA)
R. Righter (UC Berkeley, USA)
M. Sereno (Unversity of Torino, Italy)
L. Shi (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
G. Stea (University of Pisa, Italy)
V. Manuel Sune Socias (UPC, Spain)
R. Szechtman (Naval Postgr. Sch., USA)
T. Takine (University of Osaka, Japan)
C. Touati (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
B. Tuffin (IRISA/INRIA, France)
Y. Wardi (Georgia Inst. of Techn., USA)
B. Zwart (Eindhoven Univ. Techn., NL)


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