<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Call for Contributions</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> ICPE 2023</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> 14th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS, SIGSOFT, and SPEC RG</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> April 15 - 19, 2023 </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Coimbra, Portugal</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Web: <a href="https://icpe2023.spec.org" class="">https://icpe2023.spec.org</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/ICPEconf" class="">https://twitter.com/ICPEconf</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">IMPORTANT DATES</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">---------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Research track abstracts: Oct 14, 2022 (AoE)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Research track papers: Oct 21, 2022 (AoE)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Research track notification: Dec 29, 2022 (AoE)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Industry track papers: Oct 21, 2022 (AoE)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Industry track notification: Dec 29, 2022 (AoE)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Workshop proposals submission: TBA </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Artifact track submission: Jan 7, 2023 (AoE)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Data challenge submission: TBA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Poster and demo submission: TBA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Tutorial proposals submission: TBA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Emerging research track submission: TBA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">SCOPE AND TOPICS</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">----------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">The ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) is</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">the leading international forum for presenting and discussing novel ideas, </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">innovations, trends, and experiences in the field of performance engineering.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Performance, energy efficiency, and reliability are becoming central to the </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">acceptance and sustainability of modern computing systems. Digitalization </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">brings computing technology closer to people and manages most aspects of </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">their life. In turn, human interaction increasingly shapes the behavior of </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">computing systems. As a result, our systems become more complex and, therefore, </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">more difficult to engineer and understand. We need to be able to manage this </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">complexity so that our systems remain reliable, trustable, and performant.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">ICPE brings together researchers and practitioners to report on open problems, </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">state-of-the-art solutions, and in-progress research in performance engineering </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">of software and systems - targeting performance and associated quality attributes </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">such as efficiency and reliability in all phases of the computing system </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">lifecycle, from specification and development to run time and maintenance.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">ICPE deals with performance and associated quality attributes across all </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">application domains. We encourage contributions that help extend the </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">state-of-the-art in particular, but not exclusively, in the following areas:</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> • Measurement and Empirical Evaluation</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> • Modeling</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> • Design and Development Processes</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> • Managing Systems at Runtime</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> • Platform-Related Optimizations</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> • Benchmarking</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">ICPE caters to a wide range of submission types with five distinct submission </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">tracks:</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> • Research track for regular research papers on the conference topics</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> • Industry track for contributions connecting to the industry</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> • Artifact track for sharing software and data artifacts</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> • Emerging research track for discussing novel topics</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> • Poster and demo track for short interactive contributions</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">The conference proceedings are published in ACM Digital Library. </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">For more information, including the submission guidelines, visit: </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><a href="https://icpe2023.spec.org/call-for-contributions" class="">https://icpe2023.spec.org/call-for-contributions</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">--------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">General Chairs</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Marco Vieira, University of Coimbra, Portugal</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Valeria Cardellini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Local Chair</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Nuno Antunes, University of Coimbra, Portugal</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Research Program Chairs</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Antinisca Di Marco, University of L'Aquila, Italy</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Petr Tůma, Charles University, Czech Republic</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Industry Track Chair</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- David Daly, MongoDB, USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Artifact Evaluation Chairs</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Diego Perez-Palacin, Linnaeus University, Sweden</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Katinka Wolter, Freie Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Workshops Chairs</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Stefano Iannucci, Roma Tre University, Italy</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Twente and University of </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Amsterdam, The Netherlands</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Tutorials Chairs</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Alberto Avritzer, EsulabSolutions Inc., USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Posters and Demos Chairs</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- João Barreto, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Daniele Di Pompeo, University of L'Aquila, Italy</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Data Challenge Chairs</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Diego Costa, Concordia University, Canada</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Michele Tucci, Charles University, Czech Republic</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Awards Chairs</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Ivona Brandic, TU Wien, Austria</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Publicity & Social-Media Chairs</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Gabriele Russo Russo, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Finance Chair</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Nuno Laranjeiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Publications Chairs</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Daniel Sadoc Menasche, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Web Chair</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- José D’Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal</font></div></body></html>