[ecoop-info] CfPart: VALUETOOLS 2007 (early registration deadline September 23)

[Armin Zimmermann]

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                      SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                              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,
        images & reseaux, fondation michel metivier, region pays de la loire

           In technical cooperation with ACM SIGMETRICS and SIGSIM

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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.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

VALUETOOLS 2007 takes place in the Nantes Conference Center, Cite des Congres.
The detailed technical program is available at http://www.valuetools.org.
The conference features:
o       A keynote speech from Bruce Hajek 
(University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
o       An invited plenary talk by Jean-Yves Le 
Boudec (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)
o       A second invited plenary talk – TBD
o       An invited session on statistical physics applied to networking

WORKSHOPS

Four workshops are held in conjunction with VALUETOOLS 2007:

Monday, October 22, 2007

o       GameComm: Game theory in Communication networks (www.game-comm.org)

o       NSTools: 1st Int. Workshop on Network 
Simulation Tools (www.nstools.org)

Friday, October 26, 2007

o       Inter-Perf: Workshop on interdisciplinary 
systems approach in performance
         evaluation and design of computer & 
communication systems (www.inter-perf.org)

o       SMCtools: Int. Workshop on Tools for 
solving Structured Markov Chains (www.smctools.org)


REGISTRATION
Early registration deadline is September 23, 
2007. Reduced registration fees are available
for students and members of  ICST, CREATE-NET, 
ACM and INRIA. Joint registration to
VALUETOOLS and one or more related workshops is 
also possible for a reduced fee.


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        For further information, visit our website at www.valuetools.org
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General Chair
Peter Glynn (Stanford University, US)

Vice General 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, USA)

Technical Program Co-Chairs
Ch. Cassandras  (Boston Univ., US)
A. Proutière  (France Telecom R&D)
K. 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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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Armin Zimmermann
Technische Universität Berlin
Real-Time Systems and Robotics
Sekr. EN 10, Einsteinufer 17
10587 Berlin, Germany

Phone: +49 (30) 314 73110
Fax:    +49 (30) 314 21116
Email:  zimmermann at cs.tu-berlin.de
URL:    http://pdv.cs.tu-berlin.de/~zimmermann