<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="Courier New" class="">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> Call for Contributions</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> WOSP-C 2023 </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> 8th Workshop on Challenges in Performance Methods for Software Development </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> Co-located with The 14th ACM/SPEC International Conference on </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> Performance Engineering (ICPE 2023)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" 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="Courier New" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> April 15 - 19, 2023 </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Coimbra, Portugal</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> Web: <a href="https://wosp-c.github.io/wosp-c-23/" class="">https://wosp-c.github.io/wosp-c-23/</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> Contact: <a href="mailto:wosp-c2023@easychair.org" class="">wosp-c2023@easychair.org</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">IMPORTANT DATES</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">---------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Full paper submission:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jan 19, 2023 (AoE)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Notification to the authors:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Feb 13, 2023 (AoE)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Camera-ready version:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Feb 20, 2023 (AoE)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Workshop:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>April 15 or 16, 2023</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">SCOPE AND TOPICS</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">----------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">The WOSP-C series of workshops on challenges in software performance has taken </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">place at every ICPE, except ICPE 2019, since ICPE 2015. It provides a forum </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">for the discussion of emerging or unaddressed challenges in software and </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">performance, including challenges in developing software to be performant, </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">concurrent programming issues, performance and architecture, performance </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">measurement, cloud performance, and testing. Its purpose is to open up new </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">avenues for research on methods to address continuously emerging performance </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">challenges. The software world is changing, and new challenges are to </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">be expected.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">We encourage contributions that help to discuss challenges on topics that </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">are relevant in the performance community. In this edition, in particular, </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">we would like to focus on the following:</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">- Energy efficiency and sustainability</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">- Controlled experiment design, data-driven experiments, and diagnostics </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> in empirical studies</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">- Data exchange and tools interoperability</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">- Model learning and extraction techniques</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">- Model validation and calibration</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">- Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and digitization processes</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">- Performance engineering processes encompassing humans in the loop</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">- Adoption of performance engineering practices in industry</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Organizing Committee</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">--------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">- Daniele Di Pompeo, University of L'Aquila, Italy</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">- Michele Tucci, Charles University, Czech Republic</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Submissions</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">-----------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are not being </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">considered in any other venue. Papers should be in the ACM format. They should </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">describe research results, experience, visions or new initiatives. This year, </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">we accept submissions as full (8 pages), short (4 pages), and vision or </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">work-in-progress (2 pages) papers. Page limits include references. Papers should </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">be submitted via Easychair at <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icpe2023" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icpe2023</a>.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">The workshop proceedings are published in ACM Digital Library as the ICPE2023 </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">conference companion proceedings. </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">For more information, visit: <a href="https://wosp-c.github.io/wosp-c-23/#submission" class="">https://wosp-c.github.io/wosp-c-23/#submission</a>.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""><br class=""></font></div></body></html>