[Storage-research-list] Call-for-Nominations: SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award 2013

[Kai Sachs]

Call-for-Nominations: SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award 2013

     research.spec.org/awards/call-for-nominations.html

SPEC's Distinguished Dissertation Award aims to recognize outstanding
doctoral dissertations in the field of computer benchmarking,
performance evaluation, and experimental system analysis in general.
Nominated dissertations will be evaluated in terms of scientific
originality, scientific significance, practical relevance, impact, and
quality of the presentation.

The scope of SPEC's Research Group includes the aforementioned fields,
considering both classical performance metrics such as response time,
throughput, scalability and efficiency, as well as other non-functional
system properties included under the term dependability, e.g.,
availability, reliability, and security.  Contributions of interest span
the design of metrics for system evaluation as well as the development
of methodologies, techniques and tools for measurement, load testing,
profiling, workload characterization, dependability and efficiency
evaluation of computing systems.

The winner will receive $1000, which will be awarded at the ICPE 2014
International Conference.

A nomination should include:

 * A nomination letter (including the name of the student, the title of
the dissertation, the institution where the dissertation was defended,
and the date of the defense).
 * A 1-page report that outlines the outstanding contribution of the
dissertation.
 * The dissertation itself including a 1-page extended abstract of the
dissertation. (If the dissertation is written in language other than
English, it may be accompanied by publications, in English, describing
the same research as the dissertation.)

The SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award is open to dissertations that
have been defended between October 1, 2012, and September 30, 2013. If
there are several outstanding submissions, the committee may split the
award between them.

The submission deadline is September 30, 2013.

Nominations are welcome at any time before the final submission
deadline. Self-nominations are not accepted.

Nominations or questions about the application process, should be sent
by e-mail to: Nominations at spec dot org.
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