[Storage-research-list] [Call for Participation] The 15th BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench 2023)

[xiebiwei at ict.ac.cn]

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies]


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The 15th BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench 2023)
Web: https://www.benchcouncil.org/bench2023/

In conjunction with Federated Intelligent Computing and Chip Conference (FICC 2023)

https://www.benchcouncil.org/ficc2023/


* Dec. 3-6, 2023, Sanya, Hainan, China
 
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Highlights:
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2 Award Lectures:
  ** 2023 BenchCouncil Achievement Award
  ** 2023 BenchCouncil Rising Star Award
Top 100 Evaluation & Benchmark Achievements (1930s-2021)
2022-2023 Annual Top 100 Evaluation & Benchmark Achievements
50+ invited talks on Evaluation & Benchmark
30+ paper presentations


Preliminary Program
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https://www.benchcouncil.org/bench2023/#schedule-section 


Registration
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https://www.benchcouncil.org/bench2023/#tickets-section


Registration Benefit
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(1) The registrants of Bench 2023 can freely attend the other three conferences in conjunction with FICC 2023.
- 2023 International Symposium on Open-source Computer Systems (OpenCS 2023)
- 2023 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Chips (Chips 2023)
- 2023 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Intelligent Computers, Algorithms, and Applications (IC 2023)
(2) Banquet at Dec. 3rd, 2023
(3) Lunch from Dec. 3rd to 6th, 2023
(4) Dinner from Dec. 4th to Dec. 5th, 2023
(5) Meeting material
(6) BenchCouncil souvenir
Note that any admission item does not include accommodation and transportation fees.


Refund policy
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If you need a cancellation and refund, please let the registration chair (Hainan Ye, yehainan at mail.bafst.com, and Guoxin Kang, kangguoxin at ict.ac.cn) know ASAP.
(1) If canceled by Oct. 31, 2023, the amount refunded would be 100%.
(2) If canceled by Nov. 15, 2023, the amount refunded would be 80%.
(3) Non-refundable after Nov. 15, 2023.
(4) No refund will be provided if the registrant is the only author of an accepted paper who has registered for the conference. Note that multiple papers cannot share the same registration.


Visa
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Please be aware that if you need a Visa to attend Bench 2023, you need to register for the conference first. Please email the conference registration Chair, Dr. Guoxin Kang (kangguoxin at ict.ac.cn), with the information (e.g., Name, Institution, paper title and author list) after you complete your registration. 

59 visa-exempt countries:
Russia, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Norway, Ukraine, Italy, Austria, Finland, Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ireland, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania, United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Monaco, Belarus.


About Bench
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Evolving from nine BPOE/SDBA workshops in conjunction with ASPLOS, VLDB, and ICS, Bench is an international multidisciplinary conference on benchmarks, standards, data sets, evaluation, and optimization. Bench 2023 is the fifteenth edition. The Bench conference encompasses a wide range of topics in benchmarks, datasets, metrics, indexes, measurement, evaluation, optimization, supporting methods and tools, and industry best practices in computer science, AI, medicine, finance, education, management, etc. Bench’s multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary emphasis provides an ideal environment for developers and researchers from different areas and communities to discuss practical and theoretical work.