-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Von: "Prof. Dr. Bernd Wolfinger" wolfinger@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Gesendet: Thu Jan 17 18:44:55 MEZ 2013 An: KUVS-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Betreff: SPECTS 2013 -- Call for Papers; Submission Deadline: 15. Febr. 2013

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=================================================================== SPECTS 2013 - International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems http://atc.udg.edu/SPECTS2013/ ===================================================================

in conjunction with Summer Simulation Multiconference http://www.scs.org/summersim

July 7-10th, 2013 Toronto, CANADA -------------------------------------------------------------------

CALL FOR PAPERS

This annual International conference is a forum for professionals involved in the performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Performance evaluation of computer systems and networks has progressed rapidly in the past decade and has begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Topics of interest are organized by three categories:

* Networking and Telecommunication Systems * Computer Systems * Tools, Methodologies, and Applications

For a complete list, please visit http://atc.udg.edu/SPECTS2013/

## Extended Versions of Selected Accepted Papers in SPECTS 2013 will be considered for Possible Publication in Scholarly Journals.

## Accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore Digital Library

PDF version of the CFP at: http://atc.udg.edu/SPECTS2013/spects2013_cfp_20130117.pdf

IMPORTANT DATES

Special sessions proposals........................February 15th, 2013 Submission of papers and tutorials proposals......February 15th, 2013 Notification of acceptance........................March 29th, 2013 Submission of camera-ready papers.................May 3rd, 2013

PAPER SUBMISSION

Please submit your complete papers electronically to: http://www.softconf.com/scs/SPECTS13/ Instructions for authors will be posted on the paper submission website. Submissions should not exceed 8 two-column, 8.5x11 inch pages (including figures, tables, and references) in 10 point fonts. Please include 5-10 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. If you have difficulties with electronic submission, please contact Technical Program Co-Chairs or the Local Arrangement Chair.

Proposals for 1.5 hour tutorials and special sessions should be sent to the Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair. Tutorial abstracts along with keynote speeches' abstracts will be included in the proceedings of the conference.

HONORARY CHAIR - Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth Univ., NJ, USA obaidat@monmouth.edu

GENERAL CHAIR - Pere Vila, Univ. of Girona, Spain pere.vila@udg.edu

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS - Isaac Woungang, Ryerson Univ., Canada Iwoungan@scs.ryerson.ca

- Mario Marchese, Univ. of Genoa, Italy mario.marchese@unige.it

- Floriano De Rango, Univ. of Calabria, Italy derango@deis.unical.it

TUTORIALS AND SPECIAL SESSION CHAIR - Sanjay K. Dhurandher, Univ. of Delhi, India dhurandher@rediffmail.com

PUBLICITY CHAIRS - Essia Hamouda, Univ. of California-Riverside, USA essia@cs.ucr.edu

- Lei Shu, Osaka Univ., Japan lei.shu@live.ie

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR - Abdolreza(Abdy) Abhari, Ryerson Univ., Canada aabhari@scs.ryerson.ca

PUBLICATION CHAIR - Jose M. Saldana, Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain jsaldana@unizar.es

PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Please visit http://atc.udg.edu/SPECTS2013/

SPONSORED BY - The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, SCS

TECHNICAL SPONSORED BY - IEEE Communications Society

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Prof. Dr. Bernd E. Wolfinger -- Telecommunications and Computer Networks Division -- Computer Science Department University of Hamburg Vogt-Koelln-Str. 30 D-22527 Hamburg (Stellingen)

Tel.: +49-40-42883-2424 (direct) +49-40-42883-2422 (Mrs. Koester, secretary) Fax: +49-40-42883-2345

E-mail: wolfinger@informatik.uni-hamburg.de URL: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TKRN

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