SIGMETRICS Initiatives

There are three main initiatives that the SIGMETRICS Executive Committee has been working on for the past year or two:

  • Visibility: Our SIG has been trying to improve the visibility of performance evaluation through partnerships and an expanded set of conference activities. For example, SIGMETRICS is now a co-sponsor (with SIGCOMM) of the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) series, and has been "in cooperation" with recent ValueTools conferences. SIGMETRICS (along with SIGSOFT) also supported the recent WOSP/SIPEW 2010 conference, jointly involving SPEC and ACM. Future versions of this event will be known as the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE), starting in 2011.
  • History: We have made a concerted effort to document some of the early history of our SIG, which is now almost 40 years old. See the SIG History link on the Web site.
  • Journal: SIGMETRICS is proposing to create a new ACM journal as a suitable publication venue for computer systems performance evaluation research. The tentative title of the journal is ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation (ToMPE). We should know more about the status of this proposal by December 2010.

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Conferences

  • SIGMETRICS is the flagship conference of the SIGMETRICS community.
  • Performance is the flagship conference of IFIP WG 7.3 and occurs jointly with SIGMETRICS once every three years.
  • IMC is at the intersection between SIGCOMM and SIGMETRICS, focusing on Internet measurement.
  • SenSys focuses on the design, implementation, and application of sensor networks.
  • HotMetrics is an interactive workshop that seeks to identify the "important" and "hard" problems in performance evaluation.
  • MAMA is a high profile workshop that focuses on mathematical performance modeling tools.
  • ValueTools bridges the study of performance methodologies and the development of tools for performance evaluation.
  • ICPE (formerly WOSP) focuses on the intersection of software design and performance evaluation.

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Publications

  • Performance Evaluation Review (PER) is the SIGMETRICS quarterly review. PER is a refereed publication that features guest edited special issues from leading researchers in the field.
  • Other SIGMETRICS publications
    The ACM Digital library provides a convenient archive of all SIGMETRICS publications, including PER and conference proceedings.