Call for Participation

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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 VALUETOOLS 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 fl ow of technical information among industry systems designers and researchers.

Conference program
VALUETOOLS will be hosted by University of Pisa, Italy, on October 11-13, 2006.
The detailed program is available here.
The conference features:

• A keynote speech from Peter Glynn (Stanford University, US) on Traffic Modeling and Performance Engineering
• A panel on simulation organized by Peter Glynn (Stanford University, US)
• A special session on Web System-Oriented Performance, organized by Michele Colajanni (University of Modena, IT)
• Two special sessions on simulation, organized by Ioannis Kontoyiannis (Athens University of Economics and Business, GR) and Sean P. Meyn (University of Illinois, US)
• A special session on Control and Analysis of Communication Networks, organized by Maury Bramson (University of Minnesota, US) and Ruth Williams (UCSD, US)

Related workshops
The following workshops are held in conjunction with VALUETOOLS 2006:

• Tuesday, October 10, 2006
  • AAA-IDEA - Advanced Architectures and Algorithms for Internet DElivery and Applications (www.aaa-idea.org)
  • SMCtools - Workshop on Tools for solving structured markov chains (www.smctools.org)
  • WNS2 - Workshop on ns-2: the IP network simulator (www.wns2.org)
• Saturday, October 14, 2006
  • GameNets - Workshop on Game theory for communications and networks (www.gamenets.org)
  • Inter-Perf - Workshop on Interdisciplinary systems approach in performance evaluation and design of computer and communications systems (www.inter-perf.org)

Registration
Early registration deadline is September 11, 2006. Reduced registration fees are available for students and members of ACM, CNR, CREATE-NET, IEEE, INRIA, and University of Pisa. Joint registration to VALUETOOLS and one or more related workshops is also possible for a reduced fee. Detailed registration instructions are available here.