33rd Annual UK Performance Engineering Workshop

UKPEW'17

December 11th/12th 2017

Great North Museum, Newcastle, UK

Scope of Workshop

The UK Performance Engineering Workshop (UKPEW) is an annual event that aims to gather researchers working on all aspects of performance modelling and analysis.

We solicit original papers on performance evaluation techniques for computer and telecommunication systems analysis. Papers on or related to the following topics are particularly welcome.

  • Performance-oriented design and analysis methods
  • Formal modelling paradigms: stochastic process algebra, stochastic Petri nets, stochastic automata networks, Markov chains, queueing theory,...
  • Solution and simplification techniques for stochastic processes
  • Model checking and validation
  • Approximate results for Markov and semi-Markov Processes
  • Simulation techniques and experimental design
  • Benchmarks and benchmark evaluation
  • Performance tools
  • Performance case studies
  • Performability modelling
  • Software performance engineering
  • Performance and power consumption tradeoffs
  • Performance overhead of secure systems
  • New frontiers of performance evaluation/modelling
  • Performance analysis of communication networks, mobile and wireless networks, software systems, distributed systems, system architectures, embedded systems, web-based systems, grid computing,...

Important dates

  • Paper submission deadline: 3rd November 2017
  • Notification to authors: 17th November 2017
  • Camera-ready deadline: 1st December 2017
  • Workshop: 11th/12th December 2017
  • CRC deadline for ENTCS proceedings:12th January 2018

Publication

Accepted full papers from the proceedings of UKPEW'17 will appear as an issue of Elsevier's ENTCS (Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science). This will appear after the workshop. Delegates at the workshop will be given an informal proceedings for the event.

Instructions to authors

Electronic paper submission should be made through Easychair.

Full papers should be original work of between 15 and 20 pages long, including figures and bibliography, and in single-column format. Work-in progress papers of 6-10 pages and poster papers of 2-4 pages can be presented but will not be eligible for inclusion in the ENTCS proceedings. Instead these shorter papers will be published as a School of Computing Technical Report.

Submission is required in PDF format. Word files cannot be accepted. Please follow the manuscript preparation guidelines on the ENTCS web page.

Registration

The workshop will be held in the Great North Museum on the main campus of Newcastle University. Newcastle is readily accessible by mainline rail services and via Newcastle International Airport (NCL). The University campus can be easily reached from either the rail station or the airport by taking the Metro local train service to Haymarket station. Maps of the campus and the city are available online.

Registration will be available from 1st October. Full registration costs £125 and Student registration costs £75. Registration will include lunch and refreshments each day, the workshop dinner on the evening of 11th December and all publication costs. In order to finalise numbers for catering and printing, please register by 1st December 2017. To register please go to the online registration page after 1st October (the link will not work before then). If you have any problems registering, or you have any specific requirements (e.g. accessibility or special diet) then please email nigel.thomas@ncl.ac.uk.

Provisional programme (tbc)

Previous workshops

  • UKPEW 2016, Bradford
  • UKPEW 2015, Leeds
  • UKPEW 2014, Newcastle
  • UKPEW 2013, Loughborough
  • UKPEW 2012, Edinburgh
  • UKPEW 2011, Bradford
  • UKPEW 2010, Warwick
  • UKPEW 2009, Leeds
  • UKPEW 2008, London
  • UKPEW 2007, Edge Hill University
  • UKPEW 2006, Bournemouth
  • UKPEW 2005, Newcastle
  • UKPEW 2004, Bradford
  • UKPEW 2003, Warwick
  • UKPEW 2002, Glasgow
  • UKPEW 2001, Leeds
  • UKPEW 2000, Durham
  • UKPEW 1999, Bristol
  • UKPEW 1998, Edinburgh
  • UKPEW 1997, Ilkley (Bradford University)
  • UKPEW 1996, Edinburgh
  • UKPEW 1995, Liverpool (Liverpool John Moores University)
  • UKPEW 1994, Edinburgh
  • UKPEW 1993, Loughborough
  • UKPEW 1992, London (Imperial College)
  • UKPEW 1991, Edinburgh
  • UKPEW 1990, Bradford
  • UKPEW 1989, Edinburgh
  • UKPEW 1988, Edinburgh
  • UKPEW 1987, Edinburgh (Heriot-Watt University)
  • UKPEW 1986, Edinburgh
  • UKPEW 1985, 1st UKPEW, Edinburgh